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ALIEN on FM BRAIN CELL on the illegal ( AM )

Dont know about memories Linda----made me feel old,,,,,,,,,!!!Best thing that ever hit UK, There certainly was something about being a ---*Breaker*and some stranger shouting --Eyeball -Eyeball,

I remember it all to well, my handle was 'Hot Lips' I really dont know why I picked that. This theme has recalled alot of memories!!!!!!! Linda.

yes wasnt we proud to wear them body warmers with our handle patches on them!!!!!still got my club swearter with it embroidered on,,,,,,,,,,,)))) 14---a copy..... 19-directions, 10- 10. yes top of the shop==ch 40...mid or high band. *on the side*------god knows what the lay man made of that one,!!!! But when they made it legal in 1981 on FM all the fun went, wave lenght was rubbish comapre to AM ,,, but more to the cost of a licence-all of £8,,still got mine somewhere, Sideband call sign was, Kilo -Charlie 101,

one four you have a copy , Then if someone wanted to join the converstation it was your cb handle and on the side.eg bookworm on the side. the candyman the body warmer omg lol i nearly fell of my chair. I too had a body warmer,no badges though.The things you remember when your memory is jogged. Tina

One four for a copy

lol memories i met my OH on there 18 years ago and still together . The CB got me in loads of trouble though i could never get up for school . We had an am/fm so we could use both TUT TUT Rosex

Ooppps .had a few drinks and was listening to old song favorites when i suddenly remembered how i met my first love ,lol. It was through the C.B. radio. His was smokey bandit and mine was bookworm ,( don't ask,lol). My dad had i'm sure it was a binatone 40 channel one and he'd bought a walkie talkie with a rubber ariel and he wanted to know just how far it would recieve mum at home,lol.So i went on an eyeball to the tennis courts.If only they'd known as i didn't know him apart from his handle. Trying to remember what the car chashes were called,no it was a fox hunt.Where someone hid and made calls and they were tracked down. Was it channel 18 for copy and top of the shop channel 40. Did use A.M but dad was worried about being caught. We had a small ariel but my boyfriend had a huge ariel,can't think of the life of me what it was called. Had huge amount of friends and had a real laugh with some of the wind ups we had on there,memories,priceless. Tina

yes and Brain Donor was idiot!!. Ankle biter --child, 10-33 emergency,rta. Nosebag--food, Tin can--car, 10-13 Road report,,, But some was a version of US police and Radio Ham,like QSL,,

Aged 18, 1982.......I was addicted to my CB radio, my handle was Rebel Rouser, I remember some of the lingo A Meet up was called an Eyeball. a partner was called a Seat Cover.

I used to have one, and I was always on at 4am feeding 1st born, and I got chatting to a nice man who was just about to start his shift, I never met him, but it made having to get up early pleasent. Bev

i doi still got mine lol ariel still on tin box lol

Omg Yes...I use to sneak into my boyfriends car and talk away....lol...Such fun !!!!

Hi Bob,,, That was because of the wave lenght-- and band width----I caused havoc ,as standard 4-5w,but increae of 100w burner not a peep,,,,,!))))))

Oh yes what was your handle then?? Well thats what they called it in Scotland anyway. Everytime my daughter put her on it caused the TV to go off. Betty

I met my first husband thro the CB radio.... Used to be up till hours chatting away.... Guess it was the way to communicate before online chatting. J)xx

Tweety Pie was my handle. It was not the same after they made it legal. I spent many an hour up on the mountain DX ing with my 100watt burner. Golf Whiskey 01 Spoke to many many countries and still have all my QSL cards in the attic. Through the CB i also met my husband and we have been married 24 years. Wow that sounds a long time ago lol. Aaah the good old days !!!

My daughter met her boyfriend talking on the CB she was 14 at the time , now 20 years later they are married with a beautiful baby daughter..

Really laughing reading this thread . . . . Remembering when you used cb radios . . . indeed !! You make it sound like something out of a museum . . . pmsl They are still the only communications that work around my families sheep station in outback . . . 75,000 acres and when you are out in the paddock thats what you use . . . in fact even in smaller farming areas it is the method of communications between home and the tractor! Truckies still use them here and many folk still have them in their cars . . . With the size of our country I doubt they will ever really disapear! cheers Laurie

Great fun for those in the know, but the illegal sets caused a lot of people to have to spend a lot of money, buying new model radio control equipment.......... Bob