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Just wondering how many members on here used the cb radio ?
I loved it and made many friends worldwide. Only used it in the car and had a cobra 148 gtldx MK2 with a 100w burner tucked under my seat. My main call sign was Jolly roger 1281. Although I did use an alfa tango for a couple of years.
Spoke to 50 out of the 52 states in the USA, all states in Canada, and managed to get through to King Hussain of Jordan, though was drowned out by more high powered stations which was so damned frustrating.
All in all some great fun was had on the way to gigs
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Yes, I had a CB but only used it in the car for emergencies.
I can tell you why you couldn't reach more than 50 states in the USA...
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Go on then Matt, I know there's a horribly silly reason 
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Well, OK. There are only 50 states in the USA.
But maybe you are including Washington, DC and Puerto Rico in your count to make 52?
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50?? You actually count Alaska and Hawaii? LOL!!! Man, it stinks to be this old. I remember when there were only 48. And when Hawaii became a state, I actually thought that Hawaii was somehow going to be physically moved and attached to the west coast. I didn't get smart until later in life.
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I did include those Eddie. ( Blushes and waits for floor to swallow ) 
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Graham, I'd certainly muff it on UK geography. I recently questioned why ROG, in Kent, Kent couldn't just pop over and catch Hayley Oliver's gigs at Dancing Dog Pub, also in Kent, until I learned it was 150 miles from him!
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Yeah Don, folk think Scotland can be toured in a day, how wrong they are.
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I was really big in CB in the late 60's- early 70's. Went by the call 'Satellite Man'. I enjoyed modification work on early models of various radios (to learn about electronics for educational purposes only and only keyed transmitters into dummy loads). As the CB craze took off, many CB radios were modified by manufacturers to the CB bands and CB power requirements from existing commercial models to meet the demand for CB radios. I even recall having to get a FCC license.
Pretty easy for a kid to reverse the modification and get more output. Sometimes just clipping or replacing some diodes and resisters to get around 10 watts.
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I gave up on fm after a few weeks and bought an ssb set. In the UK we were plagued by foul mouthed kids & DJs when rigs became too cheap. 1st rig was an Amstrad which was quickly dumped when I bought the Cobra
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By the way I use Furry as my screen name on here as Furry Monster was my FM handle 
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>>>...Yeah Don, folk think Scotland can be toured in a day, how wrong they are...>>>
I am under the impression of an enormous difference between the north of Scotland and the South. How I would love to get over there to experience it for myself...!
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just under 370 miles from the English border to The Northernmost point. 175 miles to the Shetland Islands making a total of almost 600 miles
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I think you missed 7 states...at least according to our dear leader.
OK to the topic...
CB radio... I was in that back in the 70's when it was very popular. It was the equivalent of the chat rooms and forum sites we now use for social media gatherings.
Any time day or night you could hit channel 22 and give a shout and someone would be there. Every now and then, we'd have an "eyeball" session and meet for coffee. One guy in the group, called himself ranger, had a 500w rig with some directional beams and a moon raker for locals on 5w.... I recall one night listening to a conversation between him and a skip-talker in Nova Scotia. I heard both sides for the 10 minutes the skip was favorable. None of the locals on our end could hit this guy with our portables. When I first moved to this house, the neighbor on the corner had a linear rig and a 50' tower. His son would get on there and key up and I could hear him on my TV.
I still have 2 radios but rarely turn them on. One is a cheap RS 40 ch model and the other is a Tiger something or other that is a flat out talking radio. One night coming home from a gig at 1:30 am I heard two guys talking and they sounded local. Nice 5x5 signal. I waited for a lull in the conversation and jumped in... one of them responded to me. We talked for a few minutes and asked where in Western Wilson co they lived..... turned out they were 30 miles to my south and we were talking like they were 3 miles away.
Eventually, when the FCC removed the license requirements for CB... they had lost total control over the spectrum anyway, it finally died off. Now it's back to truckers and other small groups of folks.... the family radio walkie talkies gave a whole new batch of channels and they talked further for hand helds than the CD walkie-talkies.
They were fun. Now, though, with cell phones, no one uses radio except for the hobbyists and the serious ones of those folks are on ham.
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Yeah cb WAS fun. I stayed with a couple in Belgium I spoke to when I went over to gig there. What a nice couple, met some of the other Belgians I spoke to as well. Used to chat regularly to a guy in Jamaica. 1st time we spoke I was on the ferry going over the the island of Skye ( Lovely old Scottish song called the Skye Boat Song ) Met him in person a few years later. Got threatened by an Italian that day as I was bleeding all over him he said the mafia was going to shoot me if I didn't go off air. I was in the car for pitys sake Made a nice change for ME to annoy one of the Italians
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I think some of the foreign countries don't have the govt oversight of the FCC so running larger power amps and beams isn't the problem for them as it is here.... you gotta watch out for the feds when you put on your boots.
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We had rules in the UK But we generally got left alone using the illegal SSB rigs as long as we behaved ourselves LOL
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I had a guy with a 1000 watt linear and beam antenna live in the same apartment complex I lived at. Every time he keyed the mic his voice would bleed into my stereo set, television and tape deck. Other apartment residents experienced similar issues so the apartment manager told him to turn the linear off or he would have to move. The guy actually got some kind of court order that prevented the apartment from evicting him.
Long story short, I stuck a straight pin into his antenna lead causing the linear amp to blow the next time he keyed the mic. The guy moved the following weekend.
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I Furry, I've had many of the same experiences on radio, except it has been as a ham since 1967.
I did condesend to what we called the "chicken band" when we took two cars on a cross country trip from Michigan to California. We hooked up with a 19 year old trucker whose handle was "The Screaming Demon, as in The screamin demon told you that.
He had a fuzz buster and we followed him from all across N. Texas and stopped had had a bite to eat in Tucumcari New Mexico.
Those were the days, eh?
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