IS CB RADIO AS GOOD AS IT USED TO BE?!! 

I met my ex wife on CB....at the wedding when her father gave his speech he told everybody ( in case they didn't already know ) that his daughter and I had met on the CB...then he continued on by saying that he'd been jumping feet first on it since !

same here😃

I hear you, wish I could go back to those times too, we had 'em in our cars and as base stations etc. AM was the best fun✌️🤞👍😊💜

... and then mobile phones happened. enough said.

Title heads up from an old breaker,19 is not the calling channel! 14 is! And that's what killed it. All the kids with a cb chattering about school and boyfriends/girlfriends! The guys who needed the channel ,truckers mainly,had to put up with inane rubbish every day,it got so bad a lot of us used ch9 out of desperation which went against everything us old hands did. I started with a midland straight 40 and a dx27 twig. I gave up when the government decided we could have 27fm legally with a licence,and then it died,we had a good relationship with the local police when we were on the illegal am radios,helping them on searches for kids that hadn't come home etc or a person who's head was in a bad place. We would go out in a team of about 10-15 cars and work with the police to find them,most of the time successfully. Once the kids and idiots started we just gave up,some stayed with sidebanding for international copies but other than that nothing,I've still got my old midland from about 15 years ago as I thought it may have improved but it's not a patch on the old days. Sad really,my son does ham radio and hes trying to get me on it as well which I may try. Oh and i met my wife on there too,ladybird,been together 41 years until she passed away feb. Anyway,3's and 8's to all old breakers,10 10 til we do it again,shadow down and gone!

@@derrickmanning2597 I do recommend giving Ham Radio a try. I'm not bashing CB or GMRS, both fine and those might also suit you depending on what you are looking for. Ham Radio takes a bit more effort to get the license, but there are so many bands, modes, and aspects to ham radio. And, there are so many really different groups. If you don't like one, try another.

@craigsaunders3532 yeh bro u bring back memories, had one in my Ford capri 2.0s fishnet recaro seats , big ass bendy antenna and shouting on the side side “ breaker 19 for a copy what’s your handle lol ❤❤❤❤

Yep 14 was the breaking channel .. 19 for the Truckers....

84, you missed the best bits 😛😛😛😛

14 on AM 19 on FM if my memory serves me correctly

@@dean-gm1lg UK FM was 14 for calling, 19 was the trucker channel

@@dean-gm1lg 14 was more widely used than 19 of FM round here.

27 was also a breaking channel if I remember correctly used mostly by planks 😂

Yeah 14

definitely 14 as the calling channel, and 19 for truckers, and was not 09 used as the emergency channel ?

Yeh 1-4 for a copy, or 1-9 for a copy for the truckers and channel 9 was the emergency channel 😁

Where I grew up it was Channel 14 for the breaking channel and 19 for the truckers channel

​@@simonbaldwin69agreed

One-nine rig check

@@ricksanchez3628 receiving you loud and proud breaker

Is that Matthew who lived in Hitchin?

@@PaulStrickland no Paul, I guess there was more than 1 cyclist with the same idea 😀

Oh you lucky bugger! I dreamed of this set setup as a kid, however it wasn’t a dx27 it was a dv27😊

All the internet did was help out CB and also the affordable cell phones you still have to deal with the middleman paying that bill and social media in reality is not really that sociable actually gmrs radio has really taken off and so has CB I'm a ham radio operator ham radio CB and gmrs and I can tell you that for the past few days I've been on CB talking worldwide and have not used by ham radio equipment in the past few days everything has been done on CB even the application Tik Tok is being used to promote CB

😅😅😅😅👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 this!!!!😅😅😅😅

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊

YES!!!!

Yes 🤣. DV27 in the loft

Mine was a FIRESTIK

Lid was screwed into the attic eves, tin foil sheets hanging down, pointing the same direction as the antenna, but in a little countryside village, it worked great.

WHO REMBERS THE TOADSTALL OVER IN BRIGHTON anybody 😂that's me 😊

Yes, here in North Yorkshire late 1970's early 80's it was 14 for a a copy and channel 19 was for truckers.

i remember it was "one four for a copy" and voice came back "it's cheating to copy" or something Then at early hours in morning 14 went dead and in towns that had a motorway near them switched to 19 to talk to a bored trucker going past

It's a shame 14 fell out of favour around 1982-ish as being the calling channel. Having a separate "mobile users" channel 19 was a neat idea if only it had stuck.

@@simonblandford1002 how it was used before legalised that set the convention for 14. During daytime hours only truckers used 19 and they didn't want talk to fixed homebase rigs because of the skip made every conversation too short. So why separate 14 non-trucker calling channel, that convention carried through to legal CB along with other calling channels 8 for women's, 9 for gay, etc etc

When it changed from AM to FM that dramatically changed the culture and mode of operation, and the peculiar thing is many the conventions from AM needed out of utility, got carried through to legal CB and practiced like a religion!

I had mine from Tandy too it was a Harrier if I remember rightly.good times.

@@PhilMozchops1974 yep me too, a portable midland with telescopic antenna from Tandy in meadowhall the first year it opened. Them were the days 😢 I’ve said for the last 10 years or so we should all have a cb radio, way things are going I don’t think it’d take much to collapse the mobile phone network in the U.K. when you look what an over exaggerated bat flu can do!

I miss tandy

Fantastic windup back in the 80s my handle was lighting my mate like roadrunner chopper and snowballs great times 1/4 do you copy what twigg up pushing to much swelch nose 😂😂

Rippy, I'd forgotten about the "QSL" cards! That aspect alone was super fun!

(on the side) lol snap i still have my rotel 240 with modded in mid band as they called it back then,my mate had the 5 star too lol. in the late 70s i bought a stalker (forgot what model) imported via back of a lorry from usa. had usb and lsb, used to be great listning to that. it only had 23 channels and old wooden teak effect,

I had a Red firestick on top of a mini metro..magmount..couldn't go too fast😅

@@TheRogey1 rabbits ears?

Rabbits eras were 2 arials on one mount in a V shape

In the mid-late 80’s all my high school buddies installed CBs in our cars/trucks to talk n plan on partying on weekends and keep up with where we were going for fun. Everyone used them in my deer camp to communicate while running dogs and such. I miss those days. And before police encrypted their comms, I had a police scanner in my car. While we’d all be out drag racing we’d listen for the calls to come in, and new when to trailer the cars and get out of there. Then cell phones came out and took away the need for all our CBs. Those were the days.

"You need to have the loop facing in the flat horizontal plane to give you vertical polarization." Another example of RU-vid misinformation. Here's another opinion. "Thus mounting the loop in a horizontal plane will produce an omnidirectional antenna which is horizontally polarized; mounting the loop vertically yields a vertically polarizated, weakly directional antenna, but with an exceptionally sharp nulls along the axis of the loop" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_antenna

Great to hear 👍

We've been speaking to Canada and USA on top end of 26mhz and through MidBlock and also Muppet band since USA legalized FM. The Skip picks up around October then drops off Feb/March time yearly to North America. The 11 year suncycle has been picking up and helping out for a few years now,but it also k nocks the band dead for days on the negative side of things.

Great to hear 👍

@HBkR-tm8zn You're welcome, hey age is nothing but a number, I feel, and act like I'm still in my 20's... Screw age, it means nothing... All the best young buck!!

"The SWR dropped to less than 1" I love it when CB'ers talk nonsense. It is impossible for SWR to go below 1. That simply means you are matched. If you are not matched, as for instance your 50 ohm radio output is equally mis-matched going into a 25 ohm antenna or a 100 ohm antenna.

Yes, I realise now it's a silly SWR reading. The station was well matched hence little power needed to swamp others on the same frequency.

Ah the old k40, my dad used to love the dv27, he used to say it it was much more tuneable, I had a friend that had a k40, I loved the look of it, it looked better than the dv27 and was more expensive but I always wanted one.