Thread: Looking for a 27 Mhz CB Tech

Originally Posted by Tombie

Those were the days...

More social than this medium as well.

Much more social Tombie, made some long time friends sitting on top of Mt Dandy at Sky High or Bourkes lookout under the transmission towers.

Some real characters out there.

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Time Plus in Brunswick had a workshop when I was last in there.

Sadly I think John Cullen snatched it and Time Plus merged with another mob and only do UHF these days, havent been there for years but last time I was there the place was carpeted with CB's lol

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Back in the day, these were the guys to see for repairs, and, um, "modifications"......

Electric Bug Online Store :: Communications, GPS & Navigation

Ahhhhhhh, Interesting, Many thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by tony66_au

Sadly John Cullen snatched it and Time Plus merged with another mob and only do UHF these days, havent been there for years but last time I was there the place was carpeted with CB's lol

It was last year admittedly, but John was still doing HF stuff. He still did some business with RFDS type HF land mobile installation and repair/adjustment so obviously still has the technology necessary to tune the old 27MHz things.

The original place in Sydney Rd closed down a while back but he moved a few streets north and opened up off the main drag. Weston Street, I think.

He may have closed the doors in the meantime though.

Hope that helps a little.

Cheers,
Iain

Edit, info taken from Johns Linkedin profile Director

Time Plus

July 1973 – 2011 (38 years)Now sold TimePlus and business has moved to 13 Weston St Brunswick


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Shame because if John was still is in Brunswick that would make him the last surviving "Original" CB Shop in Melbourne that still does CB's (As in 27Mhz) from the 4 or 5 around in the 70's and 80's.

Time Plus
Just CB /Just Communications
That guy who ran the 7/37 repeater and had a business in Frankston who I cant remember.
Unlimited Communications (Tony Mudge from memory)

Now If I could find Peter Murphy aka B52 id be a happy man lol


Telsat and Time Plus Communications have now joined hands!

13, Weston St, Brunswick 3056.
Tel: 9380 4172

If I can find them [may have thrown them out] I have a couple of old CBs for sale--cheap, or swap for UHF. No aerials though,and do not know if it works. and it does not have side band, so is an early unit.

more recently I found in a cleanup day, a modern 40 channel UHF that also has a CB in it--default is CB channel nine on it, but have yet to install this to see if it works, and do need an aerial before I do so.

Oh the good old days!

Extras, 5k slides, digiscans, linears...

Parked at Mt Lofty with a 3 element yagi mounted on the back of a car!!!!

They were fun times...

Give these guys a call for repairs. They have an on-call guru (or at least had one recently).

Truscott's Electronic World

(03) 9723 3860

27 The Mall
Croydon South VIC 3136

Originally Posted by Tombie

Oh the good old days!

Extras, 5k slides, digiscans, linears...

Parked at Mt Lofty with a 3 element yagi mounted on the back of a car!!!!

They were fun times...

Thats it!

Chasing skip from a mobile, I had an old Val wagon with a rear mount 1/4 wave (9 ft stainless) which made it directional because of the location of the aerial being not central.

Wasnt keen enough to use a 3 element beam lol

Originally Posted by Tombie

Oh the good old days!

Extras, 5k slides, digiscans, linears...

Parked at Mt Lofty with a 3 element yagi mounted on the back of a car!!!!

They were fun times...

Yes and taking control of the phase lock loop and generating your own channels with a couple of dip switches.

Keen to have a 27Mhz yagi.

We made a beam, three elements one reflector and one director with a gamma matched driven element all for the DX experience. Never tried to get it into a car, it was hard enough getting it up onto the roof. Kids these days play with apps when we were playing with aluminium tubes and VSWR meters.