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EddieMD:
Just a random post really, with all the hype about using your phones while in a vehicle could it be an idea to go back to using CB Radios?I already use a CB radio but I can’t work out how to text the wife to tell her to get my tea on with it.
Sounds perfect excuse for a take away… [emoji6]
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I already use a CB radio but I can’t work out how to text the wife to tell her to get my tea on with it.
Welcome back Monkeyman, where the hell have you been? 
I’ve needed your help a couple of times these last few weeks, the forum has been awash with d/heads and I needed your vicious but amusing put downs, as I aint in your league. 
robroy:
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I already use a CB radio but I can’t work out how to text the wife to tell her to get my tea on with it.Welcome back Monkeyman, where the hell have you been?
I’ve been fighting ISIS in Syria.
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robroy:
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I already use a CB radio but I can’t work out how to text the wife to tell her to get my tea on with it.Welcome back Monkeyman, where the hell have you been?
I’ve been fighting ISIS in Syria.
you mean waswas? Isis is finished. 
to many regiment lads got back to tosscos daventry last Friday and told me so.
My little Uniden basic CB died last week and as I had quite a lot of Pilot loyalty points on my card I decided I should treat myself to a replacement. On offer in the Pilot in Schodack NY was a Uniden Bearcat 880, reduced from $129.95 to $79.95 and having slightly more on the card I decided to buy one, very advanced for me, it has weather channels besides the regular 40 channels and will actually interrupt with severe weather reports I like that, it also has a choice of background lighting colours and day and night settings which I actually like also, I drive a lot over night and the glare can be annoying. Another newer feature is a 6 pin ‘noise cancelling’ microphone, unfortunately it is so good at cancelling noise that not a dam soul can hear me LOL.
Yesterday I called at the same Pilot to complain and exchange the thing for one that worked and came up against the first problem,
“You have had it 8 days, we only exchange within 7 days”
“I am a driver, I could be away for months, exchange the f*****g thing FFS”
Eventually the manager decided he didn’t want a scene and obliged me with the exchange, I went back to my cab and fitted the new one, the microphone didn’t work either so rather than remove the thing I walked back inside to have a go at him “What’s the point of a new 6 pin noise cancelling system if it doesn’t work ?” I asked.
“Well if you look at all the components you will find a small lead that attaches to the mic”
“Yes, I saw that”
“That will convert it to fit a 4 pin mic sir”
“So hold on, you sell an normally quite expensive CB radio with a revoloutionary noise cancelling mic that doesn’t work and then the customer can spend more money buying a new 4pin mic so he or she can be heard ?”
“Well if that’s how you look at it, remember that you got quite a large discount”
“Yeah, a discount that will be eaten up buy the cost of a 4 pin mic” I said “Good news for me and bad news for you is I already have a spare 4 pin mic in the cab so you can stick yours” I left and installed my 4 pin mic which now works fine.
Don’t buy expensive CB’s they are not so great.