Radio

Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

I used to work with a bloke that was well into CB radio's Robert and at dinner time he would go up to the top of Crown point,I'm not sure about scanners but he claimed up there he could get a good signal for miles,others were up there in cars but they wer'nt CB'ing!

bit of dogging eh ;) :D :icon_hump

[Neal]

Here you go Robert, for some you may need a big aerial:

457.0375 FM - Fire Service On Scene Comms (Used in Burnley)
457.0875 FM - " " "
457.1375 FM - " " "
457.1875 FM - " " "
457.2375 FM - " " "
457.4875 FM - " " "

152.5875 AM - West Yorkshire Traffic Police
152.8125 AM - West Yorkshire Traffic Police (Spare)

166.5250 FM - Lancashire Ambulance
166.5500 FM - Lancashire Ambulance
166.4000 FM - Lancashire Ambulance Patient Transport

166.6000 FM - Ambulance (W/Yorkshire?)
166.1000 FM - Ambulance (W/Yorkshire)

166.7625 FM - Shop / Pub Watch, Burnley

165.6375 FM - British Transport Police

156.0000 FM - Coastguard

452.8000 FM - Halifax Police

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by blackburn raver

bit of dogging eh ;) :D :icon_hump

yes ,and they diddent care who was around

[Mattylad]

I used to walk up the top of Hamildon Hill with my CB, a portable "twig" and a 12v gel cell battery, managed to get out for miles & miles...

Eeee, them were the days.. :D

Now you can't get to someone on the next street because of the clowns on it.

[wayneyboy1942]

Originally Posted by Mattylad

I used to walk up the top of Hamildon Hill with my CB, a portable "twig" and a 12v gel cell battery, managed to get out for miles & miles...

Eeee, them were the days.. :D

Now you can't get to someone on the next street because of the clowns on it.

You'd have got on well with "Handyman" Matty! he was well into CB radio,he had a huge ariel at home,he called it a thunder pole,and claimed on a good day he could get a signal almost to Blackpool on it!
Must be the late 1980's when this was going on! I'm getting old!! :)

[Mattylad]

That name rings a bell, wherabouts was he situated?

I had a Thunderpole, they were & still are a damn good antenna.
Plonked on the tallest scaffolding pole I could find, up in the hills of Loveclough.

I eventually got a beam aerial & would often rotate it to increase/decrease my signal, while using a multitude of matching & amplifiers etc to really vary my signal, while winding people up from around here, saying I voz in Germany Ya. Excellent fun when the conditions were right.

I did some rig doctoring for many but eventually gave up the whole affair after too many nasty experiences due to CB.
I keep threatening to put on back in the car, but I wonder if I would be wasting my time, I only have the original CEPT27 FM ones now.

[Darkstar]

Ii was on c.b. in the early days, my handle was Cosmic Yogurt:o , using a Cobra 148gtl, i worked Denmark on 0.5 watts!!, that was from the bottom of Nelson. using a home made dipole:) .

If any body wants a scanner, i am selling mine. :) check classifieds on forum.