Norman Ingram:
Dave, I have had a few lorry drivers worried, when I put on my funny voice of " Puff Pastry" and said you seem a nice boy, pull into the services and reverse on to this!
There was a real one of those in most towns of any size Norm.I have been on CB for well over 30 years,on AM then the legal channels.Still got four CBs these days.One in my transit,the other in here.Plenty going on this way,as I’'m near two busy quarries.
Cheers Dave.
Yes Dave, I was on in the seventies, you could buy them easy in Holland & Belgium, everytime we went in to commie countries, they would search our cabs for radio’s I would smile and turn mine on and music played, they would shake their heads, " CB’s", they gave up on me in the end, 
they must have though like Benny Hill, " Buddy Idiot". 
Good days Norm.A whole load of us were on CB in this area.I think I am the only one for miles around that still has a working homebase setup.I did have a Ham International Jumbo homebase years ago.It was the size of a small suitcase,but it took up to much room.I sold it and bought a Nato 2000 with five blocks on it,it cost £130 when I bought it new,used to talk to the Americans on it in the winter when the skip was running.Had a lot of fun with CB and made a lot of mates.
Nearly got in trouble with one 
lucky escape.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Good days Norm.A whole load of us were on CB in this area.I think I am the only one for miles around that still has a working homebase setup.I did have a Ham International Jumbo homebase years ago.It was the size of a small suitcase,but it took up to much room.I sold it and bought a Nato 2000 with five blocks on it,it cost £130 when I bought it new,used to talk to the Americans on it in the winter when the skip was running.Had a lot of fun with CB and made a lot of mates.
Nearly got in trouble with one
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Never did the CB thing never got round to owning the equiptment, quite strange
really I was dual traded in the forces driver/op and although I was rarely called
upon to man the radio I knew the procedure and would have found no problems
using a CB I have driven other peoples motors which have had the gear installed
when they have been holidaying and never even bothered to switch it on, I never
even bothered with the fitted radio either, I did talk to myself though, I was the
most intelligent person I knew, if I’d started getting replies I would have worried.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it, so I sold it for a large profit! I still have my set I used in the lorry in the Garage, but my antenna went missing when I moved, the one on the house I left behind, don’t even know if anyone is on anymore.
Norman Ingram:
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it,
Probably a few in your area still on CB Norm.If you have quarries in the area,the tipper drivers use them.They are handy for telling one another when to start taking the sheet off or where to enter a site etc.
Also some of the farmers and agricultural contractors use them quite a bit. You will have to buy a cheap twig and rig it up on the shed roof and run the CB off an old car battery Norm and see if anyone is on the airwaves.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it,Probably a few in your area still on CB Norm.If you have quarries in the area,the tipper drivers use them.They are handy for telling one another when to start taking the sheet off or where to enter a site etc.
Also some of the farmers and agricultural contractors use them quite a bit. You will have to buy a cheap twig and rig it up on the shed roof and run the CB off an old car battery Norm and see if anyone is on the airwaves.
Cheers Dave.
Don’t need a battery Dave, still have my transformer which gives the correct current, I have a power mic on, so I would have to get some cell batteries to get it work, if I had my house aerial and dug out my boots, I would reach you easy Dave.
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it,Probably a few in your area still on CB Norm.If you have quarries in the area,the tipper drivers use them.They are handy for telling one another when to start taking the sheet off or where to enter a site etc.
Also some of the farmers and agricultural contractors use them quite a bit. You will have to buy a cheap twig and rig it up on the shed roof and run the CB off an old car battery Norm and see if anyone is on the airwaves.
Cheers Dave.Don’t need a battery Dave, still have my transformer which gives the correct current,
Don’t think so Norm.I used to run 200 watts on am/fm and 400 on side band.Only way I would reach your town would be to get up on Radnor Forest in my van.Used to copy people over a large area from 2,000 foot above sea level on 4 watts.
Cheers Dave.
I used to talk to a guy in Knighton Dave from here in Staffs about 65miles I guess as the crow flies, I think he was on high ground and we used low band am.
IIRC his handle was savage sprout !
On my way to Llandrindod wells in the Guy lorry I used to stop for a break on the high ground between Knighton and Crossgates you could get a good distance on the 30w am set I had.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it,Probably a few in your area still on CB Norm.If you have quarries in the area,the tipper drivers use them.They are handy for telling one another when to start taking the sheet off or where to enter a site etc.
Also some of the farmers and agricultural contractors use them quite a bit. You will have to buy a cheap twig and rig it up on the shed roof and run the CB off an old car battery Norm and see if anyone is on the airwaves.
Cheers Dave.Don’t need a battery Dave, still have my transformer which gives the correct current,
Don’t think so Norm.I used to run 200 watts on am/fm and 400 on side band.Only way I would reach your town would be to get up on Radnor Forest in my van.Used to copy people over a large area from 2,000 foot above sea level on 4 watts.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave what if the “old fellah” perched atop the “Northampton Lighthouse”
do you think he’d get through from that height.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Dave I had a Ham, but someone took a shine to it,Probably a few in your area still on CB Norm.If you have quarries in the area,the tipper drivers use them.They are handy for telling one another when to start taking the sheet off or where to enter a site etc.
Also some of the farmers and agricultural contractors use them quite a bit. You will have to buy a cheap twig and rig it up on the shed roof and run the CB off an old car battery Norm and see if anyone is on the airwaves.
Cheers Dave.Don’t need a battery Dave, still have my transformer which gives the correct current,
Don’t think so Norm.I used to run 200 watts on am/fm and 400 on side band.Only way I would reach your town would be to get up on Radnor Forest in my van.Used to copy people over a large area from 2,000 foot above sea level on 4 watts.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
Dave what if the “old fellah” perched atop the “Northampton Lighthouse”
do you think he’d get through from that height.
thanks harry, long retired.
Only if he had plenty of metal under his twig Harry.
Cheers Dave.
Once was talking. To a chap who had a hand held onthenn Eiffel tower.
Norman Ingram:
Once was talking. To a chap who had a hand held onthenn Eiffel tower.
I used to talk to Lloyds of Ludlow drivers all over Europe when the skip was running Norm.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Once was talking. To a chap who had a hand held o nthenn Eiffel tower.I used to talk to Lloyds of Ludlow drivers all over Europe when the skip was running Norm.
Cheers Dave.
Yes
DAVE it was good fun, only trouble,spent too much time on the box.
Norman Ingram:
Dave the Renegade:
Norman Ingram:
Once was talking. To a chap who had a hand held o nthenn Eiffel tower.I used to talk to Lloyds of Ludlow drivers all over Europe when the skip was running Norm.
Cheers Dave.Yes
DAVE it was good fun, only trouble,spent too much time on the box.
hiya,
Once spoke to a holidaying driver on top of the fenicular railway on the
island of Penang clear as a bell it was, I was standing next to him
thanks harry, long retired.
HARRY tell the truth,was he?
Norman Ingram:
HARRY tell the truth,was he?
hiya,
Norm, whiter than white that’s me, now would I tell you a porkie. 
thanks harry, long retired.
Harry if you think you could get away with it, you would cert ainly try!
Harry doesn’t need a CB Norm,he uses smoke and mirrors.
Cheers Dave.
Harry is the Robin Hood of Durham or is it Friar. Tuck. 