Nightfly
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Post by Nightfly on Mar 19, 2022 0:54:33 GMT
Didn't you have to be licenced for such gear?
You could at one time, monitor Police and Ambulance as well as Aircraft radios.
I’m pretty sure you had to have a license, but no l bothered! How ridiculous now, looking back! GC Curiosity got the better of me and I had to look this up. A £15 license from the Post Office was needed, but was abolished in 2006. I also didn't realise that one of the reasons the original AM sets weren't legalised was that radio controlled model aircraft used the same frequencies in the UK and could drop out of the sky if they were in the vicinity of an illegal set in use.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2022 13:31:18 GMT
Lol 2006! Absolutely typical trying to squeeze a bit of money out for as long as possible!
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 22, 2022 18:32:54 GMT
This may be of interest There's a stat in the video below that there were 40 million C.B users in the U.S
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 22, 2022 18:58:14 GMT
This may be of interest There's a stat in the video below that there were 40 million C.B users in the U.S She could operate my CB anyday.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 23, 2022 17:35:00 GMT
Looks like they were making a tenuous link between CB & picking up women. Other than reviewing the equipment used I wouldn't have thought there was much else you could say about CB Radio in a magazine. Not like video games or films is it? Maybe they had a 'CB Wives' page My next door neighbour is into something like CB radio. He has a wire & aerial rigged up, the wire was attached to our house. Thought it was a bit cheeky of him to do that. He asked permission but all the same there was an unsightly wire looming over the back garden until he recently moved it.
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Post by Nightfly on Mar 23, 2022 18:59:02 GMT
Maybe they had a 'CB Wives' page This just triggered a couple of paragraphs of copy in my mind that could have accompanied such a page... then I remembered that this is family friendly forum. Back in 1981, I once attended a local parish council planning meeting where a bunch of crusty old Councillors were debating planning applications and taking questions from the public. I'll never forget one enquiry about whether you were allowed to just put up a CB aerial on your roof. In all seriousness, the reply from a pipe smoking gent who was Chairman was that full permission from the authority must be acquired before an erection. Nothing funny about that, of course... unless you were an 18 year old lad who had been brought up on Carry On films. I think I had to leave the meeting rapidly before I was likely to have been thrown out.
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Post by Vienna on Mar 24, 2022 19:13:17 GMT
I seem to remember that on Coronation Street in the early 80s Eddie Yeats (Geoffrey Hughes) met his girlfriend Marion using CB Radio. I think he claimed he was wealthy and tried to impress her by pretending Mike Baldwin's flat was his own. Vi
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 24, 2022 20:31:46 GMT
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Post by Cartman on Mar 24, 2022 20:46:38 GMT
I seem to remember that on Coronation Street in the early 80s Eddie Yeats (Geoffrey Hughes) met his girlfriend Marion using CB Radio. I think he claimed he was wealthy and tried to impress her by pretending Mike Baldwin's flat was his own. Vi Yes I remember that. It was at the time when I did occasionally watch it, he was on the bins at the time
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 25, 2022 0:15:58 GMT
Happened to see some of a Dr Who episode from 1988 on Forces TV earlier & CB radio was mentioned
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