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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73401Post lutonlagerlout

i had forgotten all about cb radio,my handle was "smokestack" which was the nickname for mark 3 cortina, my dream car as a 14 year old
thing was there were like 40 channels so to talk in private you had to have little codes for selecting the channels
"my age plus 10 " etc etc
there were some issues with TVs but i cannot remember the exact details
I know it got to a certain time ,maybe around 1985 and for some reason no one had them any more?
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ken
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Post: # 73403Post ken

Every kid in Leigh was on the “rig� in the early 90’s, my handle was saddken!
My dad was clearing out his loft a few weeks ago and dug out my old CB gear, he set it up for my son to have a play with, and in the 4 hours they were using it there wasn’t one other person on the air. Msn and facebook are to blame I rec!
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Post: # 73414Post mike builder/landscaper

i had a whopping big long ariel on me 1976 p reg vauxhall viva and i could get a signal for miles. them were the days.
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Post: # 73416Post rab1

before my time lads. :)
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Post: # 73419Post Dave_L

Did any of you badasses have burners?

Oh those were the days, channel 19 for the truckers wasn't it??
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Post: # 73452Post London Stone Paving

rab1 wrote:before my time lads. :)
You've lost me too. Were phones not invented in those days ?

seanandruby
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Post: # 73453Post seanandruby

convoy the song springs to mind, plastic chicken and rubber duck lmao. Never had a rig, or anything, that era passed me by :;):
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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73454Post lutonlagerlout

we were still pointing at planes steve :;):

bit of a fad for people probably aged 45-55 now

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Post: # 73458Post Carberry

Remember the good ol' days when you communicated with smoke signals? :laugh: Then the telegraph came along... what a machine that was!

seanandruby
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Post: # 73463Post seanandruby

we had two baked bean cans connected by a long piece of string :laugh:
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Post: # 73475Post London Stone Paving

lutonlagerlout wrote:we were still pointing at planes steve :;):
They still do that in Stoke now :D

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