CB Radio in Nottm

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Just below the VHF bands Mick, that must have been a fair while back!! The 6m band, just above those frequencies is classed as our lowest VHF band, and it is affected by the sunspot cycle.

[mick2me 3,033]

It would be early 80s

[banjo48 928]

Back to CB , I remember those sunspot activities of the 80's and sitting on Dorket Head in the wee small hours, talking to a couple of blokes up in Ozarks hunting big horn (Or something) IMMSC Murdoch (My old mate Nick) had a QSL card from them a couple of weeks later.

I had a similar chat with a guy in Phoenix Arizona, called Sparkplug, from the same spot at Dorket head ! He was a trucky, and was coming in as though he was just down the road.

[Ashley 288]

I had an illegal rig in a transit with big whip type twig, one day the latter came off and hit a bloke walking by, he had to go to hospital, doctor said it was the worst case of van aerial disease he had ever seen!

[dgbrit 258]

CB shot down my RC Spitfire that taught me not to fly near the freeway,

All changed now new radios 2.5gig

[dgbrit 258]

I had an illegal rig in a transit with big whip type twig, one day the latter came off and hit a bloke walking by, he had to go to hospital, doctor said it was the worst case of van aerial disease he had ever seen!

I had a whip ant on my truck on the way to the lake i hit a tree with it & a branch fell off going through the windscreen of my boat.

[mick2me 3,033]

Around 1982 Boots got into selling CB Radio, then quickly got out of it, word went round the channels of them selling off their stock at next to nothing.

I picked up a rig and long stainless steel whip antenna, still got the latter somewhere. Still got three rigs, YORK 863, Harrier CBX, and an AM rig,Fanon Fanfare 190DF And I think I have a boxed sidebander somewhere.

[banjo48 928]

In oz, CB's are still fairly popular, especially for the travelling caravanner and truckies.

When a three trailer plus tractor road train unit comes up in your mirror doing well up the speed limit, they can be a real usefull tool to assist the driver to pass.

And often in far out of the way places I've chatted for an hour or so with a truckie going in the same direction but nowhere in sight.

[mick2me 3,033]

banjo48

I can see a use for it in your big country

I wonde4r is there much use of it in the UK now?

Very Useful on the motorway.