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Re: Something a bit different to my usual..

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Tomswork wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:03 am Nice repair. I will turn my old cb on to c19 and listen. And I may need to adjust my flux capacitor 1971

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I have a much newer handheld CB, I sometimes sit it there and listen to channel 14, which is the calling channel here in the UK. It used to be 19 when CB was less regulated and AM rather than FM.

I sometimes hit 19 though as you still get some folks using it.
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Re: Something a bit different to my usual..

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@rubber_jonnie is there actually many people using it these days? Always wanted one as a kid but my dad bought me a zx81 instead.
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PhilC wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:19 am @rubber_jonnie is there actually many people using it these days? Always wanted one as a kid but my dad bought me a zx81 instead.
I had one in my last car, and I regularly got traffic on it, but there were annoying people who sat on CH14 and didn't change channels once they started a conversation.

Mostly I hear faint clicks these days, so not many. I need to take it on a road trip with me, see what it can do.

Mostly replaced by the mobile phone these days, though there still seems to be a lot of shops out there selling kit, and many of the radios are multi region, so I guess some folks must still be using them.
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