CB RADIO

[wendilla]

Many years ago I used to be on CB. My handle was Whiskey Lady. Anyone on here been on it? Did used to do a lot of dxing.Got caught using a burner up the Beacon Hill In Leicestershire. Got fined £25 and that was a lot of money then.

[mccfluff]

i'm sure crafty was a lusty ladies or something......

[ChuckFickens]

yep, was Mr B, used to do a fair amount of DXing too, had a set of 500w "burners" in the car and 1Kw at home :)

[craft1948]

Oh memories Wendilla.......my handle was Lucy Lastic.....used to spend hours on the bloody thing.

[wendilla]

yes Chuck it was great I have qsl cards from lots of places abroad. Those were the days.

[Booldawg]

My handle was 'Charlie Brown'. As I was only 14 with a sqeaky voice me and my mate used to wind men up into thinking we were girls. We'd arrange to meet them somewhere. Of course we'd happen to walk past to spot the hapless lovelorn chap in his Austin Marina waiting in vain.

I always wanted a 'roger beep' and echo mike but my £4 a week paper round money wouldnt stretch to it....

[wendilla]

Done a few wind ups myself Booldawg

[ChuckFickens]

The locals in the town didn't like it so much though, 1kw through a 5 element directional beam antenna effectively wiped out the entire towns TV if we pointed it the right (wrong?) way :) (and made several DTI vans appear in the area!)

[stoofur]

What is a burner and DXing?

[wendilla]

Think it was called a silver arrow I had on house. Can't remember the car one but it was quite big.

[steg]

i was The Evil Demon

[ChuckFickens]

Burner (or boots as they were called round this area) are external amplifiers (the legal limit for CB radio is 4watts)

DXing is trying to contact people as far away as possible, I used to regularly talk to people in Italy.

[wendilla]

chuck would explain it better but we used a burner to get more distance and dxing was talking distance and qsl card were cards you sent via a po box number then and I was in a cb club.

[craft1948]

The guy who lives 2 doors down must be in his 80's and his house is an absolute tip.
He is however a radio ham, and his "shed" is bigger than my garage. Bloody huge aerials and god knows how many thousand pounds worth of equipment but he spends hours talking and listening all over the world.

[wendilla]

Thanks chuck you explaned it better

[wendilla]

When I got caught the DTI took my Burner but I told them I knew my rights they were not touching the rig. But just bought another burner. We were bold then lol

[Booldawg]

Haha Chuck, just bought a flashback from 1984 'CQ, CQ, CQ DX. Base station South of England standing by'

Usually on an FM CB radio I'd get no more than 5 miles. But for a couple of weeks in June you'd get freak atmospheric conditions (known as 'skip') whereby the FM signal would bounce off the ionosphere and suddenly you could hear people in Spain, Italy etc.

Remember having to 'swar' your aerial in?

[B00]

Mine was Pierrot, can't remember why, though I probably thought I was being arty and clever!

I used to do all my young teen flirting on my CB, but unbeknown to me, my CB somehow interfeared with our TV, so my mum could hear every word throughout Coronation Street :-(

[ChuckFickens]

I still have my SWAR meter in my parents loft :)

I do regret getting rid of my Cobra 148 GTL-DX though :(

[Booldawg]

In a way, chatterbank in the modern day equivalent of the CB radio.

[B00]

S'not Booldawg! I don't flirt on here!