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General Baxter
20-04-08, 06:50 PM
just wondering who has a cb car radio! :thumb:
Not anymore lol sold it all via eBay.
General Baxter
20-04-08, 08:06 PM
mike you suck, get another lol
twistysnovagte
20-04-08, 08:08 PM
dont have so much a cb in the car,but i have a scanner which picks up virtualy everything with a frequency police, fire service ambulance, anyone using CBs aircraft etc etc etc.
boyle_46
20-04-08, 08:41 PM
dont have so much a cb in the car,but i have a scanner which picks up virtualy everything with a frequency police, fire service ambulance, anyone using CBs aircraft etc etc etc.
pics ? how much are you roughly talking for one of theese ? i take it fleabays the best place to find them .
Matt2107
20-04-08, 08:44 PM
dont have so much a cb in the car,but i have a scanner which picks up virtualy everything with a frequency police, fire service ambulance, anyone using CBs aircraft etc etc etc.
Probably more interesting than some of the ****e on the radio.
General Baxter
20-04-08, 09:03 PM
Probably more interesting than some of the ****e on the radio.
indeed it is,
iv been offered to take part in some ghay dogging lol :thumb:
General Baxter
20-04-08, 09:06 PM
that mine in the center console, sorry for crap photo, camera phone + its dark lol
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/nova%20saloon/CB.jpg
boyle_46
20-04-08, 09:10 PM
how much you pay for that one baxter ? would i need a hoooge aerial on the roof theese sound like fun :D oh yes it that steering wheel from peesters car ? . Nath
General Baxter
20-04-08, 09:12 PM
yes its from dave :)
i can corner faster now lol
i paid £90 delivered for mine, brand new, aerial, wip, gutter mount, cb, quick detach thingy for the aerial
bigger the aerial the better the range
4x4cb.co.uk or something
I cant remember the model i had, but i had a 8ft whip ariel, an 12ft base mount ariel, speaker mic for base use, hand held mic for mobile use. A lot of the new ones dont pick up FM freq, where as a lot of the older one do ;) as its 110% illegal to broadcast on FM unless you have a license to use radio broadcasting equipment apparently.
General Baxter
20-04-08, 09:18 PM
that is true, and your only allowed 4watts now which is about 3-4mile,
alltho im pumping out (deleted figure) which is about (deleted double figures) Miles lol
CB's do transmit/recieve on FM (27MHz) - the CB band is an unlicensed band and it's not illegal to use.
There used to be a (circa) £20 per year license requirement but they scrapped it a while back due to the lack of use that band was getting.
When I was in school we used to use CB's to communicate before mobile phones and the internet were big. It used to be awesome and was really busy! I've got one in a box in my loft, I've hooked it up a few times over the years but theres nothing but silence around here!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/Smokey_And_The_Bandit_Poster.jpg/200px-Smokey_And_The_Bandit_Poster.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Smokey_And_The_Bandit_Poster.jpg)
Are you the bandit??????????????
General Baxter
20-04-08, 10:09 PM
yep lol
seriously about cb radios.....That's how I got to be called mowgli.
back in the mid eighties I was working on a farm in the summer holidays & I installed several cbs in the tractor fleet. My brother had one & his handle was 'Captain Chaos', I was fairly thin & scrawny at the time, so he decided my handle should be mowgli (as in the jungle book) & the name stuck. twenty odd years later, some people still call me it. we had some in our lorrys in the nineties, because the quarry loaders had them, but for on road use the sh!te that came out of them was unbearable, there was even a bloke in Brum who played austrian Oompah music non stop.
Thought someone had thrown up a thread from the 1980's for a moment there lol . Can remember them being used as Kev said before mobiles and internet, althought the neighbour has one with big whip ariel but his car is the bandit!
http://www.bandittransamclub.com/Snowman.jpg
Looks like there's a texas county mountie in your back door lol
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin logs
Cab over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin hogs
We's headed for bear on eye-one-oh
About a mile outta Shakeytown
I says Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to put the hammer down
come on lets get the saloon painted orange & put a confederate flag on the roof, & call it the General Baxter....
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come on lets get the saloon painted orange & put a confederate flag on the roof, & call it the General Baxter....
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Damm dixiehorns, my brother has some on his work van.
We have CBs on our cars every June for the Donegal International Rally. You do get the odd idiot in between with his COrsa and a 6ft Magmite on the roof. Looks like a ****ing Remote controll car!!
iirc, you need a licence to have them over here, which doesnt happen.
When I was in school we used to use CB's to communicate before mobile phones and the internet were big.
Me and few mates did exactly the same, although they could talk over me as they only lived 3 doors away and it used to really piss me off!
I had a posh CB with low/mid/high block channels :) + i used to live near the M6 so could talk to the truckers, but i swopped it for an air-rifle!
And it's http://www.4x4cb.com/
although they could talk over me "Burner" needed!!!!
I had a posh CB with low/mid/high block channels My dad still has a boxed mint condition, un-modified Cobra 148GTL-DX - it used to be the "king of CB's" back in the day lol - it has all the SSB bands on it and stuff:
http://www.rigpix.com/cbfreeband/cobra_148nwst.jpg
hendrix
21-04-08, 12:48 PM
ive got two but haven't used them for years. Worked best when I lived on top of a huge hill in sheffield :thumb:
General Baxter
21-04-08, 04:55 PM
CB's @ PV anyone? ;)
pv convoy ;)
NovaLad
21-04-08, 04:57 PM
My dads got loads!
Has 2 set up in the loft and the rest are just sat there.
General Baxter
21-04-08, 05:09 PM
come on lets get the saloon painted orange & put a confederate flag on the roof, & call it the General Baxter....
http://i12.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/cb/8e/a3c4_2.JPG (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DIXIE-MUSICAL-AIR-HORNS-DUKES-OF-HAZZARD_W0QQitemZ290221896749QQihZ019QQcategoryZ43 117QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem #ebayphotohosting)**--- the finishing touch Dixieland horns
now thats an idea, apart from the flag lol
pv convoy ;)
I'm gonna fit one in my car for PV :D
General Baxter
21-04-08, 09:09 PM
mine will be on, channel 19 and 22 lol
well at least me and kev can have a wip fight later in the night then :p
lol ive got a small walkie in my car , get some randoms on that late at night lol ,
cb's were cool back in the day , i remeber some dude coming into primary school and letting us play on his lol
General Baxter
21-04-08, 09:15 PM
do walkie talkies work with cb's ?
dont know lol but we normally have the for the pv convoy lol
General Baxter
21-04-08, 09:17 PM
were going posh this year with 10ft aerials lol
Riggy, do you know if it's a PMR walkie talkie? If so it'll be on 446MHz - different frequency to CB (27MHz).
If others have PMR stuff I might get a couple of them - they're only cheap - Nick and me could do with something between cars.
On the other hand I want to abuse Baxter on the approach to PV on CB lol lol
vaughanmc
21-04-08, 10:44 PM
CB's are so much fun lol
I have one in my room to go in the Nova - Some weird and wonderful banter on them as well :)
lol ive got a small walkie
Quoted for future humour mileage lol
"Burner" needed!!!!
lol
Burner!! Weren't they just car amps? I couldn't afford one at 14 :(
Weren't they just car amps?
No way! They're totally different but look similar!
CoolTiger
22-04-08, 01:24 PM
i was looking to get one a while ago but had no idea what i was looking for like whats good what i need ect ect , if any one could link me to a good cheap starter package id be really thankful :)
craig green
22-04-08, 03:30 PM
Great idea, not sure I'll waste my money though.
Over & out.
CB's @ PV anyone? ;)
Not long talked to my dad about his "Military spec" radio equipment, borrowed many moons ago "during the war" lol lol when the streets were still black and white lol
He claims can muster upto a 100mile transmission with what hes got :D
"Sierra Oscar Tango Pepsi Cola over" "We are in pursuit of a stolen Big Mac & Side order of Large Fries over" PMSL lol lol
EDIT: My old man was in the Royal Signals which, of course plays with high power radio equipment day in day out (Prior to its demise in the earlys 00 years)
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