ExBrummiewithaccent
proper brummie kid
I remember hearing you!!! I was 'Gold Top' - I had bleached hair in those days!!!!!
you could buy one for a fiver.i even threw them away. sob sob. now i have tryed everywere to get a old model general electric.
Lots of us had them before they were legal, we all would meet at a local pub also would hang out at a store called Deals on Wheels in Northfield then it moved onto the Pershore Road ?. Most of us were members of a car club.Bob, talk about blast from the past!
i repair`d them for folks, after hearing all the poo,that was being tx,on 27/81 i never bought one. i like am tx modeFor many CB'ers progressing to a Ham licence, it was almost like the Klondike (49'ers) gold rush. But sadly, those who had interests, some commercial, failed to tell them that Ham radio was nothing like CB. The only similarity was it principally used a transmitter/receiver and antennae. CB had a social side which existed inside and outside of a club but was localised, whereas Ham radio (other than the VHF bands) were quite different. In my locality most of us that bought legal CB sets were more interested in radio wave propagation and the finer details of radio. A great many drifted away from their Ham interests as a result. The few of us were always to be found on one particular channel, which the kids and loudmouths avoided. They also knew that we were quite adept at recognizing certain things and finding out who they were. Apart from our 'radio' talk one awaited event was 'the lift'. We were always interested in this aspect of the 10/11 meter band as it affected the UK. For us in the SW it always started in NE Scotland and followed a anti-clockwise movement south, usually disappearing by central England. Occasionally it worked differently, going clockwise and the more rare event of being east-west.
Snowfall, rivers/canals and metal objects - bridges, gas holders, for instance - could influence and enhance signals. Occasionally a continental station using a CB set or radio with UK frequencies, often using a higher transmit power that was not legal in the UK, found us. We analysed the details they gave about their location and usually asked some questions about the locality and their actual transmitting location. Not a person who copes too well with small screws and fiddly things I made the study of propagation my principal interest. There was a period when I was maintaining a holiday site and used gas cookers, metal baths - in fact any reasonably sized metal object as a ground plane on which to place my magnetic based antenna. I got remarkable results at times - baths and vehicle being quite directional at times. One favoured path was to the Channel Islands. Whilst NW France and the Low Countries were not that far away they used different frequencies to the UK - the UK had the most unusual choice of frequencies, at the time. We would not hazard our hard earned Ham licences by illegal transmissions. I sold all my CB apparatus in 1984 but I did feel sorry for many keen CB'ers. but the kids ruined it at the time. It was a kind of toy and as soon as the novelty wore off, or they left school, they turned to other interests.
yes it wasmwOnjm, was the shop on the corner of Audley & Flaxley Rds.
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