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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:02 pm
by 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?
LLL
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:18 pm
by 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!
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:27 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:43 pm
by rab1
before my time lads. 
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:51 pm
by Dave_L
Did any of you badasses have burners?
Oh those were the days, channel 19 for the truckers wasn't it??
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:30 am
by London Stone Paving
rab1 wrote:before my time lads.
You've lost me too. Were phones not invented in those days ?
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:59 am
by seanandruby
convoy the song springs to mind, plastic chicken and rubber duck lmao. Never had a rig, or anything, that era passed me by :;):
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:03 am
by lutonlagerlout
we were still pointing at planes steve :;):
bit of a fad for people probably aged 45-55 now
LLL
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:54 am
by Carberry
Remember the good ol' days when you communicated with smoke signals? :laugh: Then the telegraph came along... what a machine that was!
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:12 pm
by seanandruby
we had two baked bean cans connected by a long piece of string :laugh:
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:56 pm
by London Stone Paving
lutonlagerlout wrote:we were still pointing at planes steve :;):
They still do that in Stoke now 