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G0TEZ > CB 07.12.09 17:03l 65 Lines 2978 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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To : CB@WW
I haven't joined in this because our CB fever started for most people in
1980 -81, then we got the 'legal' CB, 40 Ch FM only on wierd frquencies.
Some, like me carried on from 1979 to 1995, using both legal and illegal
CB, even after I accidentally became a ham.
The quality of conversation on CB had degenerated by then to threats and
rip offs. Eventually, I put out a message tothe effect that, if someone
wanted to buy my rig at a reasonable price, let me know, otherwise I had a
lump hammer waiting, followed by the dustbin. I as i was a well known "Rig
Doctor" someone shot round and bought it. Some of the earliest CBers in
the UK were a brave few in 1976, I actually met one but, apart from being
puzzled by some of the jargon he used, didn't know he was on CB. It is
worth mentioning that, during the Apollo missions, there was a lot of CB
jargon used but we Brits just didn't understand why anyone should say e.g.
"Houston, you're wall to wall and tree top tall." None of that is ever
shown on the many films made since those days. It has all been edited out.
You really surprised me with your talk of stereo CB. Then we had 'Metal
Mickey' mics and other little gadgets, the idea of stereo never occurred
to .any of us.
CB like AR is almost dead now, a few wagon drivers are using it, I am
told, because it is better for asking directions but the ubiquitous
'satnaff' is rapidly killing off even that.
Finding someone to talk to is the bottom line. I have never bought another
CB. I still have a 2m and 70cm rig but, with the aerial ban around here
there is no point in using them. I did have a 70cm handy but, as with a
mobile 'phone I once had, I have found out that, if you don't use tehm for
months, even years, the batts become irretrievably dead so,if you have
something you have forgotten to charge, make sure you do, even if it is
only a few hours a month.
It sounds as though you had fun. I am only going back 30 years but it
sounds as though you are going back a lot more.
There was a 'Pirate' band which upset the authorities even mor than AM CB,
They used frequencies around 6.66 MHz (easy to remember) LSB and often
used the speech distorters you mention, which they called by the code name
'toilet roll'..About half of them, with more money, used modified 10m ham
rigs, the poorer and more hands on, knew that just changing the reference
osc Xtal in an ordinary 3 band CB could make it work perfectly down there,
both on TX and RX plus any normal CB AE. Not really necessary to retune
the front end. X2= X1 +/- 1/3rd (f2 - f1) was the simple formula for
working out what ref osc Xtal to use. There were a lot of firms supplying
crystals
including those for going 'pirate', so these firms knew what was going on.
I expect you have reached the end of your reminiscences so this is just my
2 pennorth. CUL.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ
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