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I had a bit of a nostalgic fit about a year ago and put one in the workshop with a pretty bit antenna on the roof. Bigger than you'd have in a car.
There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.
There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.
Upinflames said:
I had a bit of a nostalgic fit about a year ago and put one in the workshop with a pretty bit antenna on the roof. Bigger than you'd have in a car.
There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.
I have this mental picture of you sat there night after night with your cb phrase book trying to drum up some company only to find everyone has moved on . Hilarious 😆 There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.
It is still a thing. A friend of mine is touring Europe in a motorhome and met a French guy who had a setup with him and used it. I saw photos of this guys house and he had some monster aerial on it. As you say though I don't think it is anything like it used to be. You never know we might get an uptick with ww3
Older truckers in work have them, I dont know who they talk to but probably 20% of the HGVs I work on have them fitted (truckers also fit non functional AC units on the roof hatch and roo bars for supermarket deliveries so CB might be for show).
In Poland they are very popular, usually warning each other of police checkpoints, accidents on routes etc, but I imagine Waze or similar will take that over too.
In Poland they are very popular, usually warning each other of police checkpoints, accidents on routes etc, but I imagine Waze or similar will take that over too.
Its all old tech now...... You can only chat to folk within a certain radious on the old CB.....
I downloaded the Midland CB app (its free) onto my phone years ago, ive never listened to the radio since, occasionally put a CD on, but rare, think of it as a cross between CB Radio and Internet chat room.
Buy a cordless CB mic from Amazon for £80-90 which connects to your phone via bluetooth so no touching the phone and select what channel/group you want to chat in, you can chat to other drivers or whoever with no distance boundaries, i quite often cruise along the M4 chatting to truckers in the USA. Closer to home ive made some bloody good friends on there, its normal to meet up, have a coffee or just flash and wave.
I sit on a channel called 1ELITE....... theres all sorts of folks on the app and anyone that acts like a penis will get booted off the channel by the person that set the channel up.
Check it out.
I downloaded the Midland CB app (its free) onto my phone years ago, ive never listened to the radio since, occasionally put a CD on, but rare, think of it as a cross between CB Radio and Internet chat room.
Buy a cordless CB mic from Amazon for £80-90 which connects to your phone via bluetooth so no touching the phone and select what channel/group you want to chat in, you can chat to other drivers or whoever with no distance boundaries, i quite often cruise along the M4 chatting to truckers in the USA. Closer to home ive made some bloody good friends on there, its normal to meet up, have a coffee or just flash and wave.
I sit on a channel called 1ELITE....... theres all sorts of folks on the app and anyone that acts like a penis will get booted off the channel by the person that set the channel up.
Check it out.
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