cb is a waste of time now
Actually your first reply sorta made sense. As I've said on another thread it got abused rather badly when I first had it and I now feel sorry for the poor thing.
Yes I would consider a new rig if I knew there was something happening out there. No point in forking out good money to listen to static. I'm trying to get others interested. At the moment it looks like we could have our own private comms system
I've always thought CB was a good idea - it just needs a rebirth.
Tim
Yes I would consider a new rig if I knew there was something happening out there. No point in forking out good money to listen to static. I'm trying to get others interested. At the moment it looks like we could have our own private comms system
I've always thought CB was a good idea - it just needs a rebirth.Tim
Hello there!
I used to be very much into CB when I was growing up, back then it was buzzing! I'm up in the north of Scotland, and where I am, socially,
it is pretty much dead.
That said, it means there are a lot less 'muppets' on air now! I use CB as a tool when travelling the highlands (no phone signal coverage) between a camper and a car. I think in the 5 years or so since I've got back into CB, I can count the conversations I've had with other users on one hand!
My wife and I spent 6 months touring around the UK, and noticed that CB is still busy in the midlands and Wales, but up in Scotland, you're talking to yourself!!!
I used to be very much into CB when I was growing up, back then it was buzzing! I'm up in the north of Scotland, and where I am, socially,
it is pretty much dead.
That said, it means there are a lot less 'muppets' on air now! I use CB as a tool when travelling the highlands (no phone signal coverage) between a camper and a car. I think in the 5 years or so since I've got back into CB, I can count the conversations I've had with other users on one hand!
My wife and I spent 6 months touring around the UK, and noticed that CB is still busy in the midlands and Wales, but up in Scotland, you're talking to yourself!!!
Call sign: 2H2SQ
Handle: 'Turtle'
Home is where you park it!...
Handle: 'Turtle'
Home is where you park it!...
Yep. that's the message I'm getting CB is alive and well living in the midlands and Wales. I think there might be a bit in Cornwall but South Devon seems very dead. Must try to liven it up with some fresh blood.
Tim
Tim
CB WASNT A WASTE OF TIME IN MY DAY,WE HAD GREAT FUN, PLAYING FOX AN HOUND,MEETIN UP WITH EACH OTHER AND GENERALLY HAVING A GOOD LAUGH, THERE ISNT ANY REASON TO WHY IT CANT BE LIKE THAT AGAIN.
BACK THEN ALOT OF BREAKERS WENT DOWN BECAUSE OF RUDENESS AND LANGUAGE BEING BROADCAST BY OTHER MAINLY YOUNG USERS WHO HAD NO APPRECIATION FOR OTHERS WHO ENJOYD THE HOBBY,CAUSING OTHER USERS TO LOOSE INTEREST AS WELL
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ANDRIA
BACK THEN ALOT OF BREAKERS WENT DOWN BECAUSE OF RUDENESS AND LANGUAGE BEING BROADCAST BY OTHER MAINLY YOUNG USERS WHO HAD NO APPRECIATION FOR OTHERS WHO ENJOYD THE HOBBY,CAUSING OTHER USERS TO LOOSE INTEREST AS WELL
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I totally agree well saidANDRIA wrote:CB WASNT A WASTE OF TIME IN MY DAY,WE HAD GREAT FUN, PLAYING FOX AN HOUND,MEETIN UP WITH EACH OTHER AND GENERALLY HAVING A GOOD LAUGH, THERE ISNT ANY REASON TO WHY IT CANT BE LIKE THAT AGAIN.
BACK THEN ALOT OF BREAKERS WENT DOWN BECAUSE OF RUDENESS AND LANGUAGE BEING BROADCAST BY OTHER MAINLY YOUNG USERS WHO HAD NO APPRECIATION FOR OTHERS WHO ENJOYD THE HOBBY,CAUSING OTHER USERS TO LOOSE INTEREST AS WELL
ANDRIA
Jim,
CB'ers do it till it Hertz...Side Banders do it till it MegaHertz
2H4OW
M3OJP
CB'ers do it till it Hertz...Side Banders do it till it MegaHertz
2H4OW
M3OJP
Wishful thinking only, I fear.THERE ISNT ANY REASON TO WHY IT CANT BE LIKE THAT AGAIN.
Nowadays, people are even less likely to want to randomly meet up with complete strangers at 'eyeballs', and you can only listen to the breaking channel for so long before turning it off with bad language overload.
I guess each area has it's own characteristic, but in and around the London/Medway Towns we get a lot of people just sitting on the mobile breaking channel and chatting (thereby denying the calling channel to everyone else!
) or people swearing at each other BECAUSE they are sitting on the breaking channel jabbering away.Why do people feel the need to occupy the calling channel with their conversations?
Is it that they feel like it's not being used and that they are duty bound to say something on it so we don't think it's dead?
CB radio can carry on with small, closed groups hiding away from the breaking channel (and the new CB radios that will be coming out with CTCSS will help with this) but that isn't what CB radio was supposed to be about.
Shame really.
If you can create a small (or even a bloody great big! ) group of regular users, you can have a really good local network going. All it takes is for a few mates to start using it regularly and before you know it, others want to join in.
Jon
) group of regular users, you can have a really good local network going. All it takes is for a few mates to start using it regularly and before you know it, others want to join in.Jon
that is about right we started with 4 of us and in the last few months its gone upto ten , we are hoping more people will see the aerials going up and hopefully come back on2H2UZ wrote:If you can create a small (or even a bloody great big!
Jon
