What does a full time HAM do? I always thought it was just hobby and just like the CB craze was just people being sociable around the world, sharing tips and being geeky.
Yeah i wondered the same and thought the CB craze was a leftover of the 80's.
My cousin had a CB in the eighties and i visited one day with my parents, he was out but his parents said i could play his 48K if i wanted but not to touch the CB. Me and my brother did but we weren't entirely sure what to say or do and just insulted people! :))
What does a full time HAM do? I always thought it was just hobby and just like the CB craze was just people being sociable around the world, sharing tips and being geeky.
Yeah i wondered the same and thought the CB craze was a leftover of the 80's.
My cousin had a CB in the eighties and i visited one day with my parents, he was out but his parents said i could play his 48K if i wanted but not to touch the CB. Me and my brother did but we weren't entirely sure what to say or do and just insulted people! :))
Did a spot of CB-ing myself mainly DX-ing with illegal side band or AM sets complete with 50 watt burners for added distance.
My uncle a a great rig. I use to go round and speak to people in the area. I remember once my mate came round and I said to him we can go to my uncles and use his rig. As he was a few roads away I didn't call or anything, just turned up. However he was out. Oddly he had left a window open (not a great move in our area), so I climbed in and opened the door. We spent an hour messing around on the CB then went home. Never did see my uncle that day, dread to think what he would have done had he came home and found us.
A few days later I was round there and got talking to one of the girls on the air. She asked if my mate was with me again.My uncle raised his eyebrows and ask what she was on about. Had to make up some lie about being round my mates the other day and we were talking to her. Luckily he didn't know my mate or that he didn't have a rig either.
I started in the 70's with AM sets which although illegal had a fair bit of punch and could broadcast at a reasonable distance. The government then made it legal and licence-able on 27mhz 11 meter FM, but power was knocked down to 4 watts max and each set had to have an attenuation switch which put it down to 0.4 watts so as not to interfere with local telly reception should it occur. Because of this it was more or less line of sight communication unlike the illegal sets which broadcast fairly wide.
What does a full time HAM do? I always thought it was just hobby and just like the CB craze was just people being sociable around the world, sharing tips and being geeky.
Yeah i wondered the same and thought the CB craze was a leftover of the 80's.
My cousin had a CB in the eighties and i visited one day with my parents, he was out but his parents said i could play his 48K if i wanted but not to touch the CB. Me and my brother did but we weren't entirely sure what to say or do and just insulted people! :))
I don't mean to be sarcastic in the slightest, but a but of googling would of enlightened you the many aspects to amateur radio. And don't compare it to CB, CB is a child's toy compared to amateur.
I started in the 70's with AM sets which although illegal had a fair bit of punch and could broadcast at a reasonable distance. The government then made it legal and licence-able on 27mhz 11 meter FM, but power was knocked down to 4 watts max and each set had to have an attenuation switch which put it down to 0.4 watts so as not to interfere with local telly reception should it occur. Because of this it was more or less line of sight communication unlike the illegal sets which broadcast fairly wide.
I had one and used to broadcast around our village (it was more of town really, as it was about 4.5 miles end to end. We were near a motorway,and a large two lane A road and so I had plenty of people to talk to.
I had a Harrier, like this one. I had the standard 4 watts, but sometimes my dad would let me crack out his 20 watt burner. He had one in is Sierra which is where the burner came from.
I started in the 70's with AM sets which although illegal had a fair bit of punch and could broadcast at a reasonable distance. The government then made it legal and licence-able on 27mhz 11 meter FM, but power was knocked down to 4 watts max and each set had to have an attenuation switch which put it down to 0.4 watts so as not to interfere with local telly reception should it occur. Because of this it was more or less line of sight communication unlike the illegal sets which broadcast fairly wide.
I had one and used to broadcast around our village (it was more of town really, as it was about 4.5 miles end to end. We were near a motorway,and a large two lane A road and so I had plenty of people to talk to.
I had a Harrier, like this one. I had the standard 4 watts, but sometimes my dad would let me crack out his 20 watt burner. He had one in is Sierra which is where the burner came from.
Harrier were very popular as I remember and made some cracking sets.
I used to have one starting in 1992, used it for maybe 3-4 years. Mostly talked to people just a few kilometers away and it was alright. However there was this Italian bloke who lived only maybe 100m away from me - sometimes he turned on a powerful burner to be able to talk with (I guess) his mates in Italy, so when he was talking on one channel it would overspill onto quite some other channels too. One particular time, he was transmitting and suddenly my radio would actually power off (maybe a safety precaution). I wonder how many watts his burner was ... probably a few hundred.
Funny thing is, I recorded some conversations onto tape so a few years ago I digitized it and have a bunch of files on my computer. But no point in showing them here as it's all in German. Which is a shame, some of it was hilarious, like this dyslexic kid (who happend to have the same name as Germany's most famous Formula 1 driver). What an utter thicko that was! He kept going on about all those expensive cars he wanted to buy ("Gonna buy me a Tranz Am and a huge truck") yet didn't even manage to finish school ... then he showed us his "duck talk" which was impersonating the voice of Donald Duck, obviously not even close to what you'd hear in a Disney cartoon. Oh, how much fun we had in telling him all kinds of lies and he'd always fall for them ...
There actually is a video showing the exact model I had:
I think CB came up in this thread way back. All I remember about it was sexual talk but to be fair I only actually used on once or twice.
Back in dukes of hazzard era when all the youths had them car horns. ya know? At night the youths would drive around playing Dixie. They did where I was. Sounds of the late 70s..haha.
I started in the 70's with AM sets which although illegal had a fair bit of punch and could broadcast at a reasonable distance. The government then made it legal and licence-able on 27mhz 11 meter FM, but power was knocked down to 4 watts max and each set had to have an attenuation switch which put it down to 0.4 watts so as not to interfere with local telly reception should it occur. Because of this it was more or less line of sight communication unlike the illegal sets which broadcast fairly wide.
I had one and used to broadcast around our village (it was more of town really, as it was about 4.5 miles end to end. We were near a motorway,and a large two lane A road and so I had plenty of people to talk to.
I had a Harrier, like this one. I had the standard 4 watts, but sometimes my dad would let me crack out his 20 watt burner. He had one in is Sierra which is where the burner came from.
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Yeah i wondered the same and thought the CB craze was a leftover of the 80's.
My cousin had a CB in the eighties and i visited one day with my parents, he was out but his parents said i could play his 48K if i wanted but not to touch the CB. Me and my brother did but we weren't entirely sure what to say or do and just insulted people! :))
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Did a spot of CB-ing myself mainly DX-ing with illegal side band or AM sets complete with 50 watt burners for added distance.
My weapon of choice Super star 360.
A few days later I was round there and got talking to one of the girls on the air. She asked if my mate was with me again.My uncle raised his eyebrows and ask what she was on about. Had to make up some lie about being round my mates the other day and we were talking to her. Luckily he didn't know my mate or that he didn't have a rig either.
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I don't mean to be sarcastic in the slightest, but a but of googling would of enlightened you the many aspects to amateur radio. And don't compare it to CB, CB is a child's toy compared to amateur.
I have two Acorn Electrons, does that qualify :D
No, that just makes you very odd. :D
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I've never been called "odd" before... Honest!!! :D
Pretty weird?
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Yeah, I've heard that a few times :D
I had one and used to broadcast around our village (it was more of town really, as it was about 4.5 miles end to end. We were near a motorway,and a large two lane A road and so I had plenty of people to talk to.
I had a Harrier, like this one. I had the standard 4 watts, but sometimes my dad would let me crack out his 20 watt burner. He had one in is Sierra which is where the burner came from.
Harrier were very popular as I remember and made some cracking sets.
Funny thing is, I recorded some conversations onto tape so a few years ago I digitized it and have a bunch of files on my computer. But no point in showing them here as it's all in German. Which is a shame, some of it was hilarious, like this dyslexic kid (who happend to have the same name as Germany's most famous Formula 1 driver). What an utter thicko that was! He kept going on about all those expensive cars he wanted to buy ("Gonna buy me a Tranz Am and a huge truck") yet didn't even manage to finish school ... then he showed us his "duck talk" which was impersonating the voice of Donald Duck, obviously not even close to what you'd hear in a Disney cartoon. Oh, how much fun we had in telling him all kinds of lies and he'd always fall for them ...
There actually is a video showing the exact model I had:
ooer, not again. That chloroform he used last time really made my ass sore. :))
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Ah yes those really boooring lectures by hairy men with kipper ties. :))
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Back in dukes of hazzard era when all the youths had them car horns. ya know? At night the youths would drive around playing Dixie. They did where I was. Sounds of the late 70s..haha.
What's the squelch knob for? :))
Have you never had a squelchy knob?