Ideas to make CB Radio Great Again ; )

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Back in the day i owned a 2 channel Harvard 10-4 convoy. I never had trouble getting a "copy" The only trouble i had was keeping it in batteries...
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Buick Mackane wrote:I'm old enough to remember ''the golden days'' of CB, 50 people on every channel, Everyone and their granny had a CB, People forget how big it was back then, But like all crazes it was short lived, But great fun while it lasted
i do myself mate im 50 next month there was some great days in the eighties ,still love it now listening to the rantings haha
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Sam P wrote:When the zombie apocalypse arrives and all data, internet and mobile systems have failed... the Raynet tabard will rule...

Mwoahahahhahaha
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Bring back Chris Moyles? Radio is cr@p since he quit?
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RogerD wrote:
Sam P wrote:When the zombie apocalypse arrives and all data, internet and mobile systems have failed... the Raynet tabard will rule...

Mwoahahahhahaha
Is that a Welsh special event call?

Very good :D :clap: :clap: :clap:
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It seems to be pretty "great" in Germany.

Whenever the sporadic-E comes in there are tons of Germans on. Few or nothing from scotland or north England. Just my observation.
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Doesn't it just depend on how the "skip" runs? When it runs right i get all corners of the UK. Europe rolls in all summer but again different parts at different times of the day.
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mof000 wrote:Bring back Chris Moyles? Radio is cr@p since he quit?
He's on Radio X..... get the app or listen live in London or Manchester :-P
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I think you need to walk up and down your busy high street whilst yarning on a big handset blareing out with massive chrome aerial wearing a body warmer full of cb patches,
See cb needs to be seen, get it back in the public eye
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superstar wrote:I think you need to walk up and down your busy high street whilst yarning on a big handset blareing out with massive chrome aerial wearing a body warmer full of cb patches,
See cb needs to be seen, get it back in the public eye
Maybe we could get BBC's flagship early-evening infotainment Show to do a segment on CB radio...... :roll: :lol:
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why not they ones on things like northen soul how thats still going (which im mint at ) when ive had a few sherberts
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The only way to make CB again is to Nuke Facebook.......

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MrWeetabix wrote:The only way to make CB again is to Nuke Facebook.......

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I am convinced that CB is getting busier again recently.

I noticed a few new Silver Rods appearing on houses in various parts of town, and haven't seen that in a long time. Spoke to a mate of mine who has just dug out his Ham International Jumbo and put up a new Homebase antenna, and he said that loads of people are coming back on and that it was quite busy even with Homebase users on an evening.

Curious about all this, I decided to dig out my Cobra 75 EU and purchase a new antenna for my van. I bought a President Virginia antenna which I absolutely recommend highly. It looks 100% like a normal 'bee sting' car antenna but has frankly astonishing performance for its' size.

Sure enough, there's quite a few people on. Truckers seem to be using it more and more again, all the farmers and farm contractors are on it, and like I mentioned, Homebase users are back.

And when there's not too many locals on, I flick to the EU channels and for the last week or so been enjoying listening to the Europeans absolutely booming in. Most of them are speaking English in their contacts so it's quite good listening.

Well worth getting the rig out for!
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bc73 wrote:What about a big budget Holywood remake of Convoy or Smokey and the Bandit would probably help spark kids interest.

Sadly probably wont happen though.
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