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Apologies to our friends in the UK


I typed up a big reply after watching that video reminiscing when I got into CB, go to the comments “You must be subscribed for 1 week to add a comment.” (n)
 
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I don't know which uk this guy is talking about but its not the one I live in,

almost all if not all of what he says is bollocks, our legal FM radios were almost all ROM pll with sequential10kc spacing,

No splits/alphas & no rotations like the FCC band,
no pulling address lines with switches diodes or eproms,

we got an extra ch or 2 by pulling the crystal off frequency, a channel or 2 above or below the uk40,
the modded rigs usually had pll02a mb8719 mc145106 & a few with upd pll's,

some people had FM boards fitted to old AM sets & some AM/FM sets we pulled the high band crystal to get on the .125 uk frequencies,

There is no clipping diode limiters in FM rigs, he's talking bollocks again, you just turn up the deviation pot,

hundreds of thousands left on AM after FM had been legal for a while is Bollocks,

In Yorkshire FM by far took over AM in numbers of people because people who would not normally break the law started using cb's which were everywhere in shops & after a couple of years often discounted at far below original prices,

Before legal FM you could buy AM SSB & some export rigs from under the counter in a few shady shops or a mate who knew a bloke or a trucker that could get you one but there were not cheap,

You could talk significantly further on FM than AM & partly that was because there were far more people out there to talk to,

I liked the illegal aspect of CB,
I was using AM & SSB & talking over seas well before CB became legal,

The people crying for legal CB got on my tits,

something was lost after it all became legal even though I liked the sound of some FM rigs over AM rigs.
 
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Thanks bob85! I knew most of the video was BS, but didn't feel I had enough familiarity with the history of what actually happened to comment on it.

You have said everything that needs to be said and showed yet again that there is more and more BS, disinformation, AI slop, and general garbage on YouTube with each passing year. Not exactly a trusted source of information anymore!
 
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BC Coyote said:
That's still a thing. If you go on any European SDR you can hear them arguing away in French & Italian on 6660 KHz or thereabouts........... Think there are some around 3460 KHz still as well.
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I try to keep those frequencies in the memories of any receiver that's capable of storing and scanning them. Have heard traffic a few times over the years but none in English.

Another favorite thing was monitoring 27540 for packet radio transmissions. I had many megabytes of those exchanges saved to disk at one point.
 
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Yes would have had plenty to say about that video Jeff :LOL:

I am not sure about echo charlie/45mtrs,
I still have a mobile diamond antenna tuned for down there but its not been used for many years,
I don't have the transverter I used with my export CB to get down there anymore,

I remember one day a station claiming to be a USA fighter pilot politely asking us go silent for a minute while he contacted his base,
it did sound like he was using military radio in a plane so none of us were going to argue with him,

also know a local that lived next door to a relative of mine who got busted twice & all his gear taken for talking to his brother in law (a friend of mine) who had moved to Spain to avoid the tax man, second time they did not bother knocking on his door,

I was a hit N run mobile, never staying in one place long enough to be found.
 
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bob85 said:
There is no clipping diode limiters in FM rigs, he's talking bollocks again, you just turn up the deviation pot,

hundreds of thousands left on AM after FM had been legal for a while is Bollocks,

In Yorkshire FM by far took over AM in numbers of people because people who would not normally break the law started using cb's which were everywhere in shops & after a couple of years often discounted at far below original prices,













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