am cb radios

Thanks for that Brian. I didn't even think about Googling for them.

I figure that now I've bought another set I'll find my old ones, but that's life.

It'll be interesting to have a listen to what's going on, if anything.

Hoo roo,
Steve

Isn't it the older you get the younger you get.

I bought my Super Panther in 1976, 40 channel unit modified to 69 channels from memory. I was one of the unlucky one and had it taken from me by a Radio Inspector.. I don't think i ever quite got over that !! LOL! Michael

OOhh ! Forgot to mention that i still have my Uniden Grant sitting on the dash of the Patrol. You get a bit of skip from around the world from time to time and a lot more skip from around Australia than you would expect. I lot less bad language on the 27 meg than I cop on UHF.. !!! Michael

SSSHHH..... or the feds will get you.

They are watching.

I know. I thought that you would pop in.

I saw the old local boss man at the footy on Sunday. No worries though. He is retired now so we swapped a few stories as me being an ex divisional president and he being the ex RI.

One day he was testing inteferance at a neighbours place and we ran up the 707 to see what it was like. Silly fools. No dummy load!!! We took the top of the radio to clean the signal up a bit and got a bit of feedback that blew the finals. Ah well it was clean then. Bypassed them and worked for about six months on driver power (3/4 watt) until I could afford replacemenst. Even got a 10M contact to Burbank, California on it using a Parasol antenna. The days of doing things on a very (tiny) budget. The 707 - an excellent radio (I have two).

The neighbour was basically told to suck eggs and fix his stereo (suspect ownership as well ).

So I won't say a thing. Okay. QRT, ZGN and so on.

Good point Rod

Still full of it is it? I wonder how 10 meters then?

I agree with you Rod.
Unless they are going to learn 4 or 5 other languages then it won't be much use, very few will be speaking Orstrayan.

The little AM units that were around "back then" were great for convoys. They were a snap to mount under dash. Turn up the squelch and you get a clear, uninterrupted signal with no background. Other than the social side it was always the most useful part of a CB.

Ah, good old ExplorOz.

I did Google Ground Independant Antenna and up popped ExplorOz Thread 25753, "Relevance of "ground independent" re UHF antenna".

Now I know I'll be popping into Gemcom tomorrow. A good antenna is a must.

Steve

Steve

Make sure the antenna is 27 meg and not uhf. I didn't even know there was a ground independent one available. Bought mine at Olbis in Brisbane for $115.

Lot of money but I wanted to mount the aerial on a fiberglass canopy.



Cheers Teza

Will definitely do that. I have that sorted, just waiting for the set to get sent.

Hoo roo,
Steve