Should I put this in my Disco? (old Apollo CB radio)

**Fausto79** · 20th October 2016, 02:22 PM

Ch55 is my go to when in a private convoy.

**donh54** · 22nd October 2016, 06:54 PM

The old AM CB radio in the Flintstone used to be able to pick up people chatting in the USA when I was on the Bruce Highway around Cairns / Townsville in the middle of the night. With the "skip" you could get some real distance, but it was lots of pot luck.
Damn! That makes me feel old!!

**loanrangie** · 22nd October 2016, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by donh54

The old AM CB radio in the Flintstone used to be able to pick up people chatting in the USA when I was on the Bruce Highway around Cairns / Townsville in the middle of the night. With the "skip" you could get some real distance, but it was lots of pot luck.
Damn! That makes me feel old!!

I once chatted to a bloke in Hawaii using my old uniden super tomcat am an upper / lower sideband cb which I still have.
Also have a base station antenna.

**Mick_Marsh** · 23rd October 2016, 08:22 AM

We used to regularly chat to California on side band. One of my mates got California on a 5' helical whip one night, so he mounted a base station antenna on the towbar of his car.

I was driving through Rockbank one day and, because of the skip, had a very short conversation with a fellow on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on AM.

Yeah. Fun days.

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