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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 11:39:23 GMT
Just reminiscing with GC about when we were teenagers and used to have a CB radio in our bedrooms. My brother had one which I shared (he was interested in seeing if he could speak to someone in Europe where I just wanted to talk to my mate Anne-Marie from down the road whose brother also had one. Of course in those days we had to walk up to the phone box with 2p to talk to a friend if they had a home phone). I can’t remember what sort of ‘rig’ he had but I’m sure the aerial he had was called a ‘wop pole’? Used to spend hours on channel 14 ‘1-4 for a copy’ ‘you got your copy breaker pick a channel’. Is that how it used to go? My handle was Sweet Shop and myself and Anne-Marie used to go on ‘eyeballs’ and meet random people down the park. My mom never batted an eyelid or worried as we roller skated off with no idea who we were meeting and no way of getting in touch with home if it all went horribly wrong! Did you have one and what was your handle? If you were called Flying Sprout and lived in the Midlands I used to chat to you!
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 12, 2022 12:37:20 GMT
I remember the craze well CG although I never had one.
Loads of people at work were into it in the early to mid 80's.
It seemed to fade away well before mobile phones were common.
Not sure what triggered the original fad, it was a big thing in the US of course, before here.
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Post by Cartman on Mar 12, 2022 13:44:14 GMT
I never had one, but a bloke I knew did. It was a brief fad in about 1981/2, initially it was illegal and, as soon as it was legalised it disappeared.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Mar 12, 2022 13:45:16 GMT
Just reminiscing with GC about when we were teenagers and used to have a CB radio in our bedrooms. My brother had one which I shared (he was interested in seeing if he could speak to someone in Europe where I just wanted to talk to my mate Anne-Marie from down the road whose brother also had one. Of course in those days we had to walk up to the phone box with 2p to talk to a friend if they had a home phone). I can’t remember what sort of ‘rig’ he had but I’m sure the aerial he had was called a ‘wop pole’? Used to spend hours on channel 14 ‘1-4 for a copy’ ‘you got your copy breaker pick a channel’. Is that how it used to go? My handle was Sweet Shop and myself and Anne-Marie used to go on ‘eyeballs’ and meet random people down the park. My mom never batted an eyelid or worried as we roller skated off with no idea who we were meeting and no way of getting in touch with home if it all went horribly wrong! Did you have one and what was your handle? If you were called Flying Sprout and lived in the Midlands I used to chat to you! My brother had one in the late 70s/early 80s which had a huge magnetic aerial that we used to stick on the roof of his Cortina. Here's the thing... I used it occasionally and my handle was Jean Genie, (after a favourite Bowie track from a few years earlier) but... predating Life On Mars by a quarter of a century! Seems I was destined to be Gene Hunt from an early age! Gene.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 14:16:01 GMT
Just reminiscing with GC about when we were teenagers and used to have a CB radio in our bedrooms. My brother had one which I shared (he was interested in seeing if he could speak to someone in Europe where I just wanted to talk to my mate Anne-Marie from down the road whose brother also had one. Of course in those days we had to walk up to the phone box with 2p to talk to a friend if they had a home phone). I can’t remember what sort of ‘rig’ he had but I’m sure the aerial he had was called a ‘wop pole’? Used to spend hours on channel 14 ‘1-4 for a copy’ ‘you got your copy breaker pick a channel’. Is that how it used to go? My handle was Sweet Shop and myself and Anne-Marie used to go on ‘eyeballs’ and meet random people down the park. My mom never batted an eyelid or worried as we roller skated off with no idea who we were meeting and no way of getting in touch with home if it all went horribly wrong! Did you have one and what was your handle? If you were called Flying Sprout and lived in the Midlands I used to chat to you! My brother had one in the late 70s/early 80s which had a huge magnetic aerial that we used to stick on the roof of his Cortina. Here's the thing... I used it occasionally and my handle was Jean Genie, (after a favourite Bowie track from a few years earlier) but... predating Life On Mars by a quarter of a century! Seems I was destined to be Gene Hunt from an early age! Gene. That’s quite spooky Gene/Jean Genie!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 14:53:35 GMT
I remember having two CB radios, ya standard type one, and then a walkie talkie type which was my favourite, but I remember it not having as good a range because obviously the aerial wasn’t as big! It kinda resembled summit you’d see off The Sweeney because of its size. I do remember though sitting up to the early hours of the morning on it chatting away age 14 and also going on a kinda eyeball date with a local gal called Custard’ haha! enough said about that one.. But can’t believe all these years later that I can’t remember my Handle’.. The more I think about it, I find it quite fascinating and interesting about CB radio, and reminiscing now in 2022 and thinking and wondering, how on earth did these things ever take off in the first place! given the fact that when ya were chatting to someone, the conversation was as private as someone laid on a Nudist beach! I guess it just shows how much the world as changed since I had my walkie talkie in 82’ compared to today! Of course the introduction of mobile phones was always gonna finish these things off, but they were long gone, before mobiles and PC’s were around really! So what really did it then! ?? I thought, originally that CB radios were just for truckers’ in America, as depicted in the 70s film Convoy..
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 12, 2022 14:57:01 GMT
It was the Convoy film which sparked the CB craze off 'Breaker Breaker 1' and all that. I think some on the wrong side of the law got hold of the expensive scanners around in the '80's - '90's too not just when they were on the job but to get police information too.
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Post by Nightfly on Mar 12, 2022 15:53:03 GMT
1981 seemed like the boom year for CB in my area, a year before they were legalised. The nearest town had it's own dedicated CB shop called Breaker's Yard. You could also buy gear from the local Tandy shop, all technically illegal at the time but all had the disclaimer not licensed for use in the UK. I didn't own a set myself, but a couple of mates were heavily into it and would have conversations in CB lingo even in the pub! One friend arranged a date with someone he had met over CB and asked for help arranging his escape when he discovered a person's voice doesn't always fit the face. My cousin also had a bit of an embarrassing brush with the law when he was pulled for broadcasting, there's a 'Jam Sandwich' round the corner from the Co-op. He got a slap on the wrist from the Police. They told him, We're not bothered about the radios being illegal, just don't give away our positions, please. It didn't do him any harm. He joined up as Special Constable a year later. If I remember correctly, most of the original CB'ers lost interest when the legislation only legalised the inferior FM sets and left their AM sets still outside the law. Anyone remember those badges some CB'ers would wear with You Have Just Eyeballed... with their handle printed in dymo tape underneath ? https://www.instagram.com/p/CbAhk4hK1zl
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 14, 2022 8:31:24 GMT
I remember this fad from the 80s in my area. There was only one kid we knew who had one. He had a few of us round to demonstrate it but didn't really get much response. The Roscoe style delivery ( Dukes of Hazzard ) must of put people off CB really did seem to disappear off the scene quickly .
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 14, 2022 13:19:06 GMT
I remember this fad from the 80s in my area. There was only one kid we knew who had one. He had a few of us round to demonstrate it but didn't really get much response. The Roscoe from Dukes of Hazzard style delivery must of put people off CB really did seem to disappear off the scene quickly . It never attracted me, seemed a bit cringeworthy. It belonged in the US I reckon.
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