Quinny:
lolipop:
Contact your local ham club or look on the RSGB website for info about the Foundation Licence.Funnily enough, iirc, there is a club in Grimsby.
Ken.
Cheers, I’ve sent them a message.
By the look of things I better start drinking mild, grow my hair and beard and start playing the lute. They look a strange bunch!!!
Anyone got any tie die shirts and patchouli joss sticks for sale?
goshow:
Quinny:
lolipop:
Contact your local ham club or look on the RSGB website for info about the Foundation Licence.Funnily enough, iirc, there is a club in Grimsby.
Ken.
Cheers, I’ve sent them a message.
By the look of things I better start drinking mild, grow my hair and beard and start playing the lute. They look a strange bunch!!!
Anyone got any tie die shirts and patchouli joss sticks for sale?
Wait until they convince you to buy a dubiously part restored Range Rover to drive up and down the countryside in, trying to see how far you can broadcast…
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.
+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad. 
I’m all fitted and have only had a very brief test. I didn’t get any response on channel 19 though. I’ve got an SWR meter on route just to make sure I’m not losing too much of what I’m putting out.
Is the radio a lot quieter than it was years ago?
goshow:
I’m all fitted and have only had a very brief test. I didn’t get any response on channel 19 though. I’ve got an SWR meter on route just to make sure I’m not losing too much of what I’m putting out.Is the radio a lot quieter than it was years ago?
About a dozen or so die-hards left in Hull, don’t know about Grimsby. A fair few in West Yorkshire so if you’re getting down the M62 past Goole and you’re not hearing anything something is wrong.
As I said before, those that still have them have their own channels, and around here you tend to get ignored by the regulars, especially if you start all the “breaker breaker 10-4 can I have a rig check” rubbish.
Haven’t had a CB in for about 17 yrs, took it out when the airwaves became awash with pricks.
First had one in 1980 when you used to look at every truck coming towards you to see if they were ‘flying a twig’
You sat on 1 9 all day waiting for somebody to shout at you.
Later they became really popular with drivers after US trucking films like Convoy etc, and were useful for traffic info, and in pre sat nav days for getting directions
You could buy them abroad or off the Paddys at that time as they were not UK legal, then the legal ones came out which were rubbish in comparison.
Then the knobheads arrived 
and spoiled it for everybody.
I ran for years with it just knocked off, unless I saw someone I knew, and eventually took it out. It’s in a cupbord somewhere at home …along with pennant flagstrips (compulsory in the 80s 
) and furry clogs 
.
I do the same as Robroy, usually only switch it on when I see someone I can be arsed to talk to. The amount of sheer pig ignorance is amazing. One of the local firms yokels will cut each other out even when getting directions off another.
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
You must be talking to the wrong people. Or in the wrong channel.
Muckaway:
What do these “hams” find to talk about? It must be like ringing up a stranger and deciding to talk about the weather or diy.
Same stuff everyone else does but without the swearing and music playing. They’re only strangers until you start talking to them regularly.
You don’t need a big expensive CB to get good transmission or reception, I left the UK 16 years ago, I used a small Midland, I can’t remember the model but it had signal lights instead of a meter, it was the smallest model they make, I hooked it to a Modulator twig which is an amazing antennae and that’s all you need for the best reception an range, if you can afford to buy a K40 twig then even better. I have proved my point over here also, all these fools who spend hundreds on the most elaborate CB’s and I use the smallest Uniden I could find and hooked it to a base loaded twig with the longest whip I could find, I hold conversations with others over long ranges. A CB radio is only as good as the antennae.
Up until around 2005 I wouldn’t have been without a CB radio mainly to find out what was happening on my front door.
Seemed to die out around then, dunno why. The last time I rigged one up all I got was some foreigners!
I know Quinny has mentioned radio hamming before but is it any use if the bloke coming the other way doesn’t have one?
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
A.M. my good man.not F.M.
Lonewolf Yorks:
I know Quinny has mentioned radio hamming before but is it any use if the bloke coming the other way doesn’t have one?
Your right Wolfie.
Ham radio is more civilised than cb, and as Conor has said, using a repeater with 10w, conversations tend to be over greater distances, however you can go ‘simplex’ which is a bit more local and not too dissimilar to cb range, but depends on someone nearer to you.
Plus there is the added bonus of no music, swearing etc etc.
Ken. G8FSO
dieseldog999:
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
A.M. my good man.not F.M.
well aware of that Ddog - still very few replies compared to say 10 years ago . Seems some will only speak to their own fleet but when they pass and you shout “so you don’t want to know where the big car is ?” they don’t be to long in wanting to talk . 
new silver BMW 16 plate on the 75 by the way .
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
A.M. my good man.not F.M.
well aware of that Ddog - still very few replies compared to say 10 years ago . Seems some will only speak to their own fleet but when they pass and you shout “so you don’t want to know where the big car is ?” they don’t be to long in wanting to talk .
new silver BMW 16 plate on the 75 by the way .
I gave up with mcburney. Generally manfreight answer. Richardson of Stranraer usually answer. I’ll answer as well [emoji6]
Quinny:
Lonewolf Yorks:
Plus there is the added bonus of no music, swearing etc etc.Ken. G8FSO
Just discussions of weather, how far you can get out?
Bet the highlights dvd is on everyones’ christmas list.
dieseldog999:
beefy4605:
dieseldog999:
Deeireland:
I think CB,s should be in all HGV,s
I have one and would not be without it,although you don’t get as many hello,s or how’s it going any more.
I think that’s down to the fact that you may see another Irish/english lorry coming out of say Italy,Germany and more than likely they are a Taliban.+1…vital for the 75,55,41,ferry traffic,redundant elsewhere unless you see a paddy on the prowl abroad.
It might be “vital” but how many actually use it pass on information ? You can run the 75 and not a soul speak to you .
A.M. my good man.not F.M.
Having used both, FM is better than AM, FM signals follow the Earths surface so provided there is nobody on your channel between you and who you want to talk to he can be 100 miles away and you can carry on a conversation, In my nights on Swifts doing trunk work I could talk to my mate such as King Creole who would be sitting in Leicester Forest and I would be in Woodall. I could talk to Diesel Dan from 50 miles away easily. Using AM over here I find it useless, the signal travels in a straight line and does not follow the earths curvature, instead you can be in a conversation on the other side of a continent because the signal will bounce off the atmosphere, this is called skip, the problem is that someone about 30 miles away can’t pick up your signal.
Pat Hasler:
Having used both, FM is better than AM, FM signals follow the Earths surface so provided there is nobody on your channel between you and who you want to talk to he can be 100 miles away and you can carry on a conversation.
Oh dear. Complete ■■■■■■■■. Please don’t try to get technical about something you clearly know nothing about.
