cb seems a good idea, as the mindless morons that use to hog the airways have moved on by now, cb is being used by the hunting people to keep in touch bettween the mountains of wales, only prob with motorhome is fixing airiel due to fibreglass body. and you should have to watch using the mike whilst driving, could be a good idea.
Hi all, I have bid on yet another Cb radio on ebay. It's just a 40 channel Fm Midland radio. All the AM Rigs with usb and ssb low mid high and high high channels seem to go for a bomb. There was a president lincoln that went for £200.
As you say most of the muppet morons are probabaly on the internet in the chat rooms or chatting on mobile phones, yep retro would be a much cheaper option.
Does anyone know how much a cb licence is these days, I don't want to get nicked for that again I must have been the only person in the uk to get fined for using an AM cb without a licence, cheeky buggers fined me £40 and £20 costs that was about 1980 before FM cb's were out.
after reading this thread and reminiscing in the past I suddenly remembered that my old cobra148GTLDX with the modified super low band fitted was upstairs in the attic along with the K40 mobile antenna and 400 watt linear amp , and its gonna stay their too as i have finished with radios both CB & ham hehe
I had a few, a President Lincoln, a big old homebase Uniden 300, and one in the car, a l'il legal thing, and an Antron 99 mounted to the wall at the rear of the house. Call sign DR001, name was 'Roughneck'! I had great DX all over the world with the sidebander, I still have the QSL cards in the loft! I still have a set of Zetagi 'boots' and some odds and sods in the shed. The boots are brand new, 200w linears, they din't half kick it out an 'all....
If anyone wants to mail me with an offer......
Like Als says, I think my cb'ing days are over, although I wouldn't mind setting up again just for old times' sake!
I used to have a Superstar 360 FM, with side bands, similar to the Cobra 148, but with high high, where the Cobra came with low low.
I sold that back when the legal FM's came out, and you couldn't get on through, with all the kids getting CB's for Christmas and screaming at each other from house to house aorund here.
I even headed for the hills around Richmond, North Yorks, with a GP 27 'twig' on an aluminium pole and 200 watt burner, but even the side bands were swamped by kids and yobs 'bucket mouthing', so eventually I gave up, and sold the rig for £170, as much as I had paid for it new. I was devastated. We used to enjoy 'fox hunts' and such like around the Yorkshire countryside with other CB'ers, one of who used to work for 'Buzby', so we had an advantage there.
There was an FM rig already fitted in the Mk 1 I bought some years ago, and outside the towns, I found it excellent, especially on motorways and the 'A' roads, for road reports from truckers.
I left that rig in the van when I sold it though, and regretted doing that. I was thinking of getting another now, but I think it needs more channels than the 'legal' rigs available, an extra 40 or even 80 would really keep you away from the muppets maybe. Another Superstar would bring back a lot of happy memories. I too have many QSL cards, the furthest being from Sao Paulo in South America in 1980, the year of the skip.
Bill.
Post last edited on 23/09/2004 19:45:56
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I used to have a ham international multimode 2 and a ham international concorde, they were both too big for your car, only homebase or when I used to go up the mountains in the lake district sidebanding with a starduster attached to the tow bar of the car. I used to have one of them little jaws mk2 in the car for regular mobile use, well until someone broke into my car and stole it. The first cb that I ever bought was a straight 40 AM rig made by a company called Kraco or Krako, it had a wood effect case and I remember it being on the large side it worked well with a 5' firestick.
Ahhh 1980 the year of that skip, it lasted almost six months here and I got nicked but I can look back now and ,
I started off with a 5 foot Firestick on a Magmount on the roof of the car, and the first corner I went around, it fell off due to being top heavy. Can't remember the rig's name though, as I went quickly on to the Superstar.
I also recall setting it up as a home base, with a battery on the carpet under the sideboard, and when Ada moved the battery one day, the carpet was bald with the acid I was using a biscuit tin as a ground plane too, until a mate realised it was me calling on the rig, and came around and helped me get sorted out. Happy daze
Bill.
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Old Campervans never die, they get rebuilt ...eventually !
Quote: Originally posted by alsparker on 23/09/2004
after reading this thread and reminiscing in the past I suddenly remembered that my old cobra148GTLDX with the modified super low band fitted was upstairs in the attic along with the K40 mobile antenna and 400 watt linear amp , and its gonna stay their too as i have finished with radios both CB & ham hehe
Hey, do you still have the cobra 148? Would you consider selling it ?
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Topic: cb radio's
I must have been the only person in the uk to get fined for using an AM cb without a licence, cheeky buggers fined me £40 and £20 costs 
that was about 1980 before FM cb's were out.
it worked well with a 5' firestick.
but I can look back now and 
Can't remember the rig's name though, as I went quickly on to the Superstar.
I was using a biscuit tin as a ground plane too, until a mate realised it was me calling on the rig, and came around and helped me get sorted out. Happy daze 
