Two Channel CB's

[Twocky61]

Who remembers these?

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[The Collector]

I had one of those, plus a similar Amstrad (gold and black??) one. We used to use them on our bicycles, although I mainly used my Alba 40ch one as the 2ch ones were limited channel-wise. Saying that, there were always people on ch30 back in those chockablock days.

[JB]

I remember making my young brother an adapter of a quarter wave coil and PL plug to go over the short telescopic antenna on his 2 channel Amstrad CB so he could connect it to the halfwave vertical on the roof for a few miles extra range in the early 80s, happy days.

[cb4ever104]

That's where my 27/81 adventure began too . Lots of good memories ....

[The Collector]

I still have my Alba 40ch handheld. I bought it off my sister as she had that for an early Christmas present and I had my Fidelity Homebase, both from Makro. She got bored of it after about a couple of months, whereas I got more and more into it.

[lambrettadave]

We had Shira 2 channel set's that we're basically the same as to what Dave described.

Range was about 1/2 a mile handle to base but set to set was less

Squelch was pointless and audio was pants too.

But it got plenty of people and kid's on the air

[The Collector]

There was a bloke opposite me last Sunday at Cheddar car boot sale trying to flog a boxed Shira 2ch for £25. I did chuckle.

[lambrettadave]

I have two in the box's dave £75 the pair hahaha.
Only kidding

[The Collector]

I'm still looking for a boxed black-top Alba 40ch handheld like the one you have Dave. An unboxed one was on ebay until it was pulled today for same reason (probably got an offer offline).

[cb4ever104]

We had Shira 2 channel

That was the one I had too .

[lambrettadave]

I'm still looking for a boxed black-top Alba 40ch handheld like the one you have Dave. An unboxed one was on ebay until it was pulled today for same reason (probably got an offer offline).

I didn't realise it is that hard to find boxed

[The Collector]

90% of them are silver-topped (earlier version) like the Harrier WT2, but they changed to the black top later, same as the Harvard 410T.

I'm soooo sad!

Oooooo.... and I think the picture on the later box may have been in black and white, or at least less colourful than the earlier ones anyway.

[lambrettadave]

I will get a photo on here for all to goggle at

[The Collector]

You're just doing it to pi$$ me off aren't you lol

[Twocky61]

If you watch the movie Woodstock, you see one of the guys using, I assume, a 40 channel handheld

Complete with the telescopic antenna