CB Radio
 

I found my old CB in the loft the other day and a load of memories came flooding back. What a great time we had and what a great social side was in place. I remember disco's every week at the spinning Jenny and church commercial. My handle was fire hazzard from hazzard county ( Oswaldtwistle), how many of you accywebers were on the CB and what were your handles. It would be great to hear some of your memories of the hyndburn CB scene.

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I have had a similar thread recently in the nostalgia section, but welcome this continuing theme. I am 'red tape' .I went to Yellow Ribbon, Spinning Jenny. Khyber Good Buddies at Sett End, The Mint, and of course the monthly big 'do' at Martholme - happy days :)

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Just out of interest what model is it?

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Its a very scratched midland 3001 on AM totally illegal and with it was a dv27 twig.

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dv27 did you have to saw the top off or was that a firestick?

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I was very sad, went to the eyballs at Spinning Jenny, Enfield & of course Martholme Grange not to mention the Oak Tree - my handle was Aunt Sally - and I didn't even have a CB radio

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i only went to the martholme once and that was my last time its a place i would like to for get.....the spinning jenny was a good pub i think they come in there for the meeting,s on the c.b. raido my handle was speedy

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:(

i always wanted to do the whole cb thing after watching smokey and the bandit

"ten-four this is the bandit i need some cover whilst i make a run"

"bandit its a pleasure to help!"

toot-toot

*cue the southern music*

yeeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwwww!!

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Cant comment on this thread has my CB day's were spent in Preston. Started off with a colt45 and a ikle die pole on a biscuit tin and ended up with a big silver rod on the gable end. Mick's handle was Kodak. When I was a novice I started out has rubber band coz I couldn't think of an handle. Changed it to raven top but still got called rubber band.
Wanted white witch but there was already at least two with that handle.

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i was on the c/b radio too but im afraid it was after the good old days of the am .....we had fm & my handle was grey lady .we did have some fun too i remember big daddy ...camera man......o there were loads .when i lived in wales i once got a call from a lad in the army in germany no one would believe me (i did have the whiskey's on) he did send me a letter & a q.s.l. card still got it today boy we did have some fun till the young uns started with their bad mouthing ..10 10 for now till we do it again.

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it was never the same when it went to fm shame it was great that was then what my pc is now

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No we ended up on a 5/8th wave 27ft arial on the top of the gable and a Ham international homebase rig with over 500 channals and the police round most days.

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hey we had a silver rod on top of a giant of a tree he he plus the whiskeys .........i forgot to mention we did have a maddy president am one too.

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If I could find anything in the loft I might still have a couple of Hygain 5's (the ones with the annoying squeaky bleeps) a Ham Multimode and a Cobra 148GTL DX FM lurking up there. I was one of those sado's who wrote my own eproms and added UK 1-40's to the sideband radios :D
I probably still could if I put my mind to it even though it has been at least 10 years since I did one.

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I used to go to the eye balls at the chapel of rest (lidgett) and smokes back door (green club) rushton st, Harwood. I did have an HBC badge (Hyndburn Breakers Club) but haven’t seen that for years.


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