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well dont know if there still going i was on the CB few years ago when visiting my mum and dad in accrington met some real nice people would not mind getting back in contact.

what does everyone else think about them good or bad?
any stories to tell ?

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i thought CB's were just for taxis these days lol

mobile phones kinda killed them off i think plus the expansion of the internet in the past 10 years

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I had a CB in the eighties, thought it was great, used to go to CBers disco at the con club I was only about 14, that was great too!

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My dad used to be a CB addict......he would have loved the improvements in communication technology...sadly he died 13 years ago.

He was a Radio Amateur and had cards from all over the world...he would stay up till the early hours of the morning so that he could talk to people in Oz. The internet would have been wonderful to him.

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I had one in the mid eighties it was great, I made many great friends some I still see. When I put my dipole up my then next door neighbor said he was getting interference on his tele so I went out and bought him a box to filter it out. As it happened I didn't use my CB that night but said neighbour was at my door the next morning again saying I was still interfering with his tele. I was really fed up of the abuse and whinging by this point so late that night I took the dipole down & laid it across my lounge floor. Next morning He was back again with the same complaint The look on his face was a picture when I showed him my aerial on the floor. it turned out he had just got his first video recorder and was watching second hand tapes that had little lines running through it now & again. I used a car aerial in the loft after that so he didn't know I still had one, & he never complained about interference ever again.

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My Mum and Dad (Baker and Ma Baker) were mad on CB's when we were growing up and they met a lot of crazy friends through it :D I still love listening to some of the tales my Mum tells about the 'good old CB days'!


My Dad had a massive kingfisher arial in the garden, never remember anyone complaining about interference, I'll have to ask my Mum ?

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I had one in the mid eighties and it was o.k, good fun and all that ...But it help to end my first marriage, so it ended in the bin.... (the C.B)

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Two of our members met on the CB radio and have since married.

You going to tell your story????

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I used to use the CB radio, still have it and go on now and again (If I can be bothered putting it in the car). I did use it at home, but my antron99 blew down though and I haven't replaced it since!

NOTE: Do not hang England flags from antron99's, they fall down!

Whenever I have been on, it's just idiots playing music or drunks these days. Met a couple of now good friends off the CB though years back. We used to go 'cruising' and meeting others, was a pretty good laugh!

I'm still into my radio scanners and luckily my scanner aerial has not blown over, not bad considering it's around 10+ years old and been moved to 3 homes (My mams, dads and then my own over the years).

Anyhow, may get a CB aerial put back up though, it will be handy for the business.

The below image is naff quality, using dial up with OnSpeed and set image download quality to low:

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i too was on the c.b. radio in the 80's i loved it. my handle was "grey lady" had some great meet up's.

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Like Grego, I was also on the CB and used to go to the weekly disco/meet up. I was Juicy Lucy and it was the mid 80's....:cool:

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I think my dad's handle was Doc.....or maybe The Doc... because he used to fix them when they went wrong.

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That name rings a bell, a distant memory from the 80's, did you live on Dill Hall?

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I lived in the Burnley Rd area at the time but used to eyeball all over the borough..:D

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well my handle was scatman i think lol i met a lad called LB from ossi he was cool. and i met 2 girls who was also very nice people one from accy and one from rishton. sadly lost contact with them. i loved the cb days i say bring it all back cant beat good old comunication. :)

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I used to have a CB in the early 80’s; my handle was Rockin Robin, from Hanky town. I also had a DX call sign and it was Lema Delta 24.Hehe I spent many hours calling CQ CQ CQ-DX and after all that I made very few contacts, I think I still Have a couple of QSL cards somewhere, cards that other stations had sent me.
We used to have our eyeballs at the lidgett GT Harwood and eyeballs at Smokey’s back door (Green Club GT Harwood behind the police station).
Things change thou when it became legal, the air waves became clogged with kids, bucket mouthing and keying over other stations as well as playing music like Neal said.
A friend of mine who was a Ham operator from the early 60’s said why you don’t get your self an amateur radio licence, so I sat the RAE 1983 and got myself one.
I haven’t bothered with radio for some time now but I still hold my licence. My then shack is now a complete tip. Click on the link below to see some images of my then shack. Hehe
All good fun. :)

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...50&postcount=2

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I used to go to the Lidgett eyeballs myself Len with a crew from Accy.

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Sorry Lettie but I must be thinking of someone else, did you used to go out with a guy whose handle began with D?

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Nice one. You never know we may have met at some point. The lidgett got so busy with the eyeballs that they had to change venue. They moved to the Green Bowling Club for its eyeballs because it had a much bigger room and I think around that time everyone formed a Club called “The Hyndburn Breakers Club” but not too sure, was a long time ago.

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On the Aunty Mary I was called Rubber Band ( Novice User )
When I tried to change it People just insisted it was Rubber Band.
When we change to F.M it became Raven Top.

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dj your handle was captain Blood yuk.
I remember the day you met the girls well.
You came running downstairs saying " I'm off to the vidio shop."
I persumed you were getting a vidio but came home with two girls instead of two vidio's.
Mmmm

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captain blood? never heard of that name before lol oh they was so nice people its a real shame i lost contact gutted !!

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I don't think I was going out with anyone at the time, I was only 16/17. I'm trying to remember the handles of some of our friends but I'm having some difficulty. Grego will probably remember some of them.:D

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I know what you mean I've got the same problem I knew loads but trying to remember them is another thing. I uesd to go to all the eyeballs from the pop club to the Lidgett which Len mentioned. Len all I can remember is Snow White and Ragdoll both female, I can't remember one male not even you sorry.

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I recognize both handles Snow White and Ragdoll but not to sure who they where. I’m almost 90% sure that Snow White lived somewhere near me, here on James St. I think it was about 10 doors away. If it’s the one that I’m thinking of she also at some point moved from James St [with her family] to an old folks home at the top end of Harwood, I don’t know why, work presumably [or was that Silver Fox?]. Oh dear can’t be sure, was a long time ago. hehe

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all these posts about C.B radio and not one person has mentioned rubber duck been chased by bear :rolleyes:

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couldn't find a bear but I found a chicken and a Tiger

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