Les Platons

Back in the 1970s there weren't any ways for the public to talk amongst themselves on two-way radio. Due to massive demand with the CB craze, legal CB came along in November 1981. That's a big 10-4 there, Rubber Duck! Roger Dodger, indeed

Believe it or not, CB is still around, although the craze died off and there's hardly anyone using it any more. On the plus side, the licence requirement has been removed, so if you've still got one hidden away in the loft, garage or the dim recesses of the back of the wardrobe halfway into Narnia, you could hook it up again without worrying about the legality. Whether it will still work after all these years is another matter!

I've noticed a few Polish cars locally sporting CB aerials, and a small group of J-reg vehicles convoying around and meeting up at the traditional CB gathering spot of the hambuger stall car park at Bel Royal (the 'greasy' of yester-year!).

I found a webpage all about the 1980s CB phenomena at JerseyConnect - keeping Jersey C.I. in touch which makes for amusing reading!

There days you can buy CBs for around the 50 quid mark, with multi-standard options that are supposed to be set for the relevant country you're in - i.e. the 80 channels we're currently allowed in the UK area (the original UK 40 and the newer European 40 which are the same as the original USA AM frequencies). And no licence to worry about!

Few people probably want the hassle of extra aerials on their cars or homes, but since 1999 we have also been able to buy 8-channel UHF walkie talkies with a supposed 3 mile range. In practice these actually cover anywhere from a few hundred yards in dense woodland or built up areas, all the way up to as far as from Jersey to Guernsey given a clear view... or even to the English south coast during rare high pressure conditions when the telly's going funny with "co-channel interference".

If you have any questions or wish to talk about such radios, these forums are just the place for it.......

Cobra

hi mate, 1 of the j reg cars u mentioned could b my good self operating on 27 mhz ssb only recently working as far as brazil. its good to see this topic on the forum

Les Platons

Hi Cobra
That's interesting, I just assumed a group of locals had discovered the joys of keeping in touch with legal CB..... hadn't bargained for SSB DX It's good, is it? I sort of got it out of my system years ago........ it's still going strong then?

As for legal CB, it will be 27 years old on the 2nd Nov, and "Delboy" is trying to arrange a "Big Net" to celebrate

73

Paul

Back in the day everyone i know had one..Im sure it was Am back then just before it became legal. As far as i remember when the legal set came out it was full of kids and i did not want to use it much after that. If it made a come back now it would be very handy for a lot of people im sure.

Cobra

27mhz ssb has been very quiet of late and funky monkey is not for me, have worked all uk, europe and scandinavia this year and as i said b4 a short contact in to brazil made my year as it was my 1st ever

terry

its really easy to see you as your the 1 with the broken suspension because your moving a few more pounds since you moved to jersey fatty

Cobra

dont want 2 hijack this thread terry by slaggin u off, but werent u once topcat from penilee in glasgow. we can continue this crack on a different thread old spud

-im-jersey-eh-

can we have a 446 Megs thread please?

ch1 ctcss 2 animal shelter JSPCA
ch1 ctcss? saturdays motorbike training mob
ch1 ctcss? sometimes nutty kids from school up wellington hill

ch2 ctcss? hotel heard next to don inn
ch3?
ch4?
ch5?
ch6 french people can be contacted from St Catherins breakwater
ch7 busy with cranes on weekdays
ch8 ctcss not telling :-) my Girlfriends Channel
I keep a cheap binatone from B&Q unit scanning all day at work to hear whats goin on
:-)

Cobra

there is a few guys with 4 wheel drives get 2gether on a sunday for drive about with legal 40 sets. i think they are on ch 14 but have only actually heard them speak once

Paul

I have been doing some research into CBs at the moment. I found a site call Truck Kings

Truck King Web Site

Some very nice stuff on it. I like this radio




I could see me maybe getting one and giving it a go to see what its like in present times.