Thread: CB protocol

Use to sit up at Sky with a few guys (and girls) with 27meg (All right as long as you don't chat on channels close together!

They were an interesting group, at one stage we use to regularly listen in on a group at windy point who were obviously racing up the hill..... Spotters below on the main routes in and up the top. It was always amusing when when the call went out for "cops" and listening to them scramble and re meet elsewhere.

Then the police must have got wise to what was going on....... Made it highly entertaining when they were "sprung" ! LOL

This would have been about 8ish years ago

Originally Posted by cookiesa

Use to sit up at Sky with a few guys (and girls) with 27meg (All right as long as you don't chat on channels close together!

They were an interesting group, at one stage we use to regularly listen in on a group at windy point who were obviously racing up the hill..... Spotters below on the main routes in and up the top. It was always amusing when when the call went out for "cops" and listening to them scramble and re meet elsewhere.

Then the police must have got wise to what was going on....... Made it highly entertaining when they were "sprung" ! LOL

This would have been about 8ish years ago

Mate, if you remember callsigns like:

Happy Harry Hard-On
Stargazer
F16 Falcon

That was around 10+ years ago.

CH 5 and 35 are buy law emergency CH and fines do apply..

35 is the repeater....

But how do they catch ya

Originally Posted by longreach

most bad language you hear on U H F channel 40,happens in the citys around aus,on the open high way, out side the citys, you don't get much in the way of really annoying bad language,some time you do,but not as bad as in the city......most truckie,hate the real dick heads,that use bad language all the time.........

I agree truckies hate dickheads that get on air (and we've got a few here in the Blue Mountains west of Sinney) but I've yet to hear a truckie who can speak on air without using the F word.

Ron

Originally Posted by tombraider

Yeah mate... Sounds like a radio

Another reply was

Sorry mate - no cheques, only do cash!

Ray

Mike, about 81-82 as a kid of 14 on AM. Some friends had home base sets, so a bit of time on these. Then off and on again until present. Lived back there 90-91 so mainly around then. But often there on holidays as Murray Bridge is home and normally with a AM/USB/LSB or UHF CB in the car. Even in WA had a license for several years before it was abolished.
Now there are just tossers on it all the time that have no idea. Most get rather agressive now when you tell them to tone it down.

Originally Posted by tombraider

Oh yes... I remember those days well....

Adelaide, and Spectrum

Mate... we use to set up at Mt Lofty (prior to that abomination being built) with a 3 element beam (with rotator) AND a 27meg Homebase antenna mounted on the CAR!

When were you in Adelaide and on 27 meg? What years?

I used to be in Adelaide on am and SSB late 70's / early 80's - mainly down south around Christies / Morphett Vale. Local radio inspector in those days was Arnie - Red Indian 109 - he wasn't a bad bloke. Used to be good fun in those days but eventually got over-run by the idiot brigade.

Last time I used am was when I had a Pilot Vehicle business about 10 years ago. Interesting to hear that the am's quietened down again now and a few more sensible people back on it. I've still got a couple of sets in the shed including an old Kraco - think I've got an aerial somewhere too. Might set one up in the shed and see what's going on out there now.

And as for sitting up on top of Mt Lofty with a yagi Tombraider - well that's bloody disgraceful ha ha. We only used to sit up on the hill above the cement works near Brighton with a 9 foot stainless whip and a linear amp in the car - wouldn't dream of doing anything illegal.

I'll never forget the day that a mate of my then girlfriend's (now wife's) brother drover under the tram lines at Jetty Rd / Brighton Rd in a Morris 1100 with a 9 foot stainless whip mounted on a roof rack in the centre of the car. Fried all the electrics in the car (lucky it didn't catch fire), held up traffic while they were "rescued", and then got charged by the cops - real winner he was.