hello from royal Wooton Bassett

[orangeman]

Hello my name is Daventry from royal Wooton Bassett and I'm a bit old fashion when it comes to technology I'm afraid. I have been on cb since the late 1970s and a shortwave listener for a lot longer.

I have never used the Internet until Xmas when my daughter bought me this fancy phone. I was shown how to search and found myself here looking up cb radio.

My name I'd David the phone keeps correcting me I'm not Daventry. Thank you for letting me join please be gentle with me as I don't understand this yet.

[MrWeetabix]

Welcome to TM1 David. :-)

[orangeman]

Thank you for your warm welcome. May I please ask what all the funny little yellow faces are for above where I type? Not sure if it's a feature of the telephone but it's a marvelous piece of kit you type on the screen I think is called a robot phone or something its mafe by samsung like that it's marvelous we can all talk to one another via these telephones

[MrWeetabix]

They are called 'Smilies. You can click on one and it will insert it into the text you type. Its just a little way of showing an emtion without typing them. They are quite common on the internet

[zippy]

Hi David, welcome from another old CBer, I had 30 years off and can't believe how good the modern kit is

[porky.69]

welcome david

[orangeman]

Thank you all I am not a returnee I have never left the hobby though do not go on air quite as much as I used to. I still have my shortwave but even those bands don't seem as busy as they once we're. I will try the smilies can you see it have I done it right? Regards David

[TheCaptain]

Hi David and welcome to TM1