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Not sure if anyone will remember Chris (Tumbleweed) from Bromborough, he was on around 82ish to 85, I found out he had died in the late 90s. I was at school with Chris, we lost contact in 1990 when he accused me of selling out and conforming because I married.......He was a Buddist hippy at that time. One of lifes great characters. RIP Christopher Robin (Coles)

The real problem, here, is that we're simply not organised to synchronise with one another being online and listening out (and shouting out, now and then). Also, the problem behind that problem is that I've no idea how to organise so many people, in so many different/distant parts of the Wirral, who are not even synchronising with one another ON HERE! If you think about that, you'll see that it's gonna be hard to do!

Any ideas, anybody?

Okay...

I got myself a President Jackson 2 and I'm back on CB Radio. So, I'll do a lot of listening out, shouting for "Rodgers", shouting for rig checks, moving between 19 and 14 and just keep on hoping for things to grow.

REMEMBER, GUYS: FM, 80 channels are license-free, now. Also, after July, on the 2nd 40 channels (sometimes called mid-band) legal use of USB and LSB is permitted.

ALSO: There is no longer such a thing as an illegal CB Radio aerial. Another good thing about CB being brought back.

We can do this...we can bring CB back to the South Wirral, properly, and upkeep it as more and more people come on.

Who's still in the game, for this time or for the future?

Ian. ("The Witch Finder General")

Hi...

I've just bought a Midland Alan 42 handset CB Radio.
It's a babe - if you saw it, I'd probably lose it, forever. It's an 80 channels handset, with AM as well as FM.

It has an EIGHT battery block as the lower half, which is a lot of power - understandable when you think of it being a 4 watts machine, on FM.

I'm definitely having another one of these - everything made that's good stops being made or stops being sold, according to Murphy's Law and the Laws of Chance! I got it through a friend, in Lincolnshire, who bought it from Nevada Radio, but the 2nd one will be from Knight's CB, also in Lincolnshire.

Seriously recommended, though, no matter the source, really.

Ian.

As long as it works out ok for you Mate enjoy it 73's

It's too easy for folk to consider CB Radio dead, in the UK!

IF YOU DON'T PLANT CB, YOU CAN'T EXPECT CB TO GROW!

Newcomers to CB communications between folk need to have some time on a CB to actually see the value of it. If you want people to go to CB Radios, you have to be on there, yourself, to be heard, to keep them coming and keep up their interest!

They need to know that (1) no examination is involved, that (2) no license is required, that (3) no aerial is illegal and that (4) they need not hunt for the right letter key on a QWERTY board, or (5) learn to feel comfortable using a mouse, or (6) have a degree in Social Media, or ever (7) worry about getting banned from a channel, because of a sincere and harmless comment they made, months back, about something social or political or religious.

They need to be made aware that CB promises (8) real people with (9) genuine human-spoken words that (10) need no spell checking enacted on them, are available, and that (11) many other people can become made available, on CB, for (12) low cost...(13) a lot less than a computer, for sure, if they'd care to try it out at their home/s or in their vehicles.

How can CB radio, with the newer modes and improvements in "qualification" (a relaxed, exam-/license-free ride to chatting, that is) become a success when, in your local area, too many thousands of people don't even realise that it's there, yet? If we want CB to be a success, it's probably wise to start selling the idea to those who used to be on and currently are not, and to those who've never been on and might well end up loving it after they've tried it, for themselves.


For Some, The Internet Might Be Preferable

Facebook (and, maybe, many other areas of the Internet) is/are a shambles of ill-designed, faulty, sluggish swill, where the human inclusion is only there at the mercy of one faceless Facebook-dot-com Moderator, finger poised over the BAN key, just ready to do everything for you except listen to reason and understand that freedom of speech is a right, not a privilege!

THE INTERNET is a warmth-free, mass-occupied, soul-less chasm of lengthy delays, slowness, jumpy pages, faults, failures to connect, errors in message sending, E Mails that go astray, never to be seen again...persistent advertising, trouble-makers, and short-send chats made entirely from recycled pixels, with all the coldness and dryness expected from one computer talking to another, no matter how many people are at each end.

Computers are just more new-fangled techie chaos to too many people, such as those in late middle-age or those who are the elderly and know that they'll never have computer company because they'll never master weird looking (to them) keyboards and can't understand the use of a mouse or a finger pad. Older folk might have ten sentences that they could say, on a radio channel, but they'll only say one of them - maybe two - if they're forced to navigate a keyboard. Also, people who are self-conscious about their ability to do any writing at all will not want to show their bad grammar, or faulty spelling, on a screen. On a CB Radio channel, they'd not have to worry about that.

I'd be willing to be that those disillusioned by being unable to understand and/or use computers would LOVE having a chance to chat with others by radio that costs little, has no examinations to do, requires very little experience to make work for them and for others and which easily covers their entire neighbourhood, and sometimes beyond. I'd sooner help and old, or disabled, person get a CB set up than get a computer set up - especially when I compare the vast difference in the sizes of the learning curves of the two means of contact.

LET'S NOT BURY CB RADIO IN THE UK! Let's cultivate it and spread it around. Aim for the elderly, the disabled and the unhappy! I think some of you reading this have already, and long-since, had this idea - you might already, in fact, be working on ways to bring it about. That's the nurturing way...the opposite of the pessimistic, defeatist way.

Let's take charge of, and personal responsibility for, bringing it back into the lives of British people all around us. Let's make people see how helpful it can be in banishing loneliness and feelings of isolation.

OKAY! IT'S SOON TO BE OFFICIAL!

AM/SSB LEGAL AFTER JUNE 27TH!

Take a look...

Nevada Radio (UK CB AM & SSB LEGAL!)

I enjoyed CB back in the heyday (Beachcomber) and made a lot of friends some of whom are still friends today. There are CB sets/ burners/ junk in the boxes - but frankly I cannot see me ever getting "into" it again. I would far rather use a phone/ tablet + Skype or similar. Yes, I KNOW the limitations of those etc --- but they do work 95% of the time

Snod

The kids next door to me had one in the 1980s. Whenever I was recording to cassette on my hifi, their bloody broadcasts came out on it.