CB RADIO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM "A LOOK AT CB AND AMATEUR HAM RADIO",

[@Thc14Me]

Big 10-4 on the video good buddy. Certainly brought a few memories back. I can recall owning a Superstar 360, I won it in the raffle at my club Chertsey 20/27 held at Thorpe Park, the week that C.B. was legalized. This was the sister club to the Windsor 20/27 held at the Safari Park. I had Sigma 4 base twig, if you could call it a 'twig' at 18 foot! A Turner Power mike or a K40 speech processor just for the fun of it. Twin Firestix on the Vauxhall Victor lol. Delta9 saying 10-10 we gone bye bye.

[@Bullworm562]

I wasn't alive during the CB craze here in the U.S. (born in 1990) but I do use my own CB radio today and have been introducing my friends to the technology as well, its much more fun than boring cell phones or facebook! I enjoyed the video very much.

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your comments,yes it would be nice to know. I was a CB'er before it became legal when i lived in Coventry back in 1978, and I have always had and used a CB radio to this day. it has been sad to see the rise and full of CB and two way communications. But some of us try to hold on to what was instead of what is. We humans have done this for so long we have given it a word "Nostalgia" Welcome to my world regards Steve.

[@Jimmyboy1674]

Are you still on now? Great conditions this solar cycle! I've been talking to the US everyday!

[@ShayGlenn]

Brilliant... thanks so much 😀👍

[@maninthevan53]

my early years in cb before ham I made thousand of contact In Europe mostly on ssb although ham is good it can never be as enjoyable as cb

[@SteveMinto1]

Thank you for taking the time to post your comments. Those were the good old days no such thing as mobile phones computers in the home Facebook, My space, PS3, Xbox, Oh no but what was out there was a very interesting thing called CB back 1981 it was all the craze. Yes you hit the nail on the head where most CB'ers would help one an other no matter what. You don't see that in a national hobbles now a days, your on your own. Well long live 27 MHz CB radio. Regards Steve

[@radiomegahertz]

Good job, this video is back to travel to the past

[@3butalcomp3]

cray-zee to see this. Enjoyed it a lot.

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi its great to hear from you again. Convincing the trouble an' strife that's a job for a brave man. Go luck with that one. Regards Steve

[@lezarm1]

Those were the good old days we all remember.It's a shame that time and technolegy has changed it all. I still use cb radio from time to time but people change too. I loved this video it brought back the past where most cbers helped one an other no matter what.Thanks for a glimps of the past. ( The Fanman) Cut ya Loose Gud Bud.

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your input my friend, A Midland Portia Pack I had one of those when driving HGV's BACK IN THE 80's. I used it with a K40 mag mount on the cab roof. I was in and out of many different HGV's at the time running manly for agency's, so the Midland with the speaker in the microphone was so easy to go in a my kit bag. To day I still have a Midland Alan 78 plus that I use from time to time. Thanks again for your input 10/10 - 73's my friend and have one on me too.

[@muddyfox4x4]

Great Vid :) I started in 1980 with a Fairy Light GEC 40 channel AM rig then jumped to a President JFK SSB by the early summer of 81 with a 5' fire stick fitted to my ford Capri , i used to Break around the Camberley Surrey Area and went by the Handle of "Big Daddy" ....Great days and meet so many good people on there , even have 5 ex Breakers that i met back in the day on Facebook after all those years :)

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input "yes" great times my friend. Please take the time to see my other video. Regards Steve

[@SuperTaffia]

10/4 good buddy its the witchdoctor from merthyr tydfil here my rig n twig was untill last yr when i finaly sold up was a 148gtldx with super high and super low plus 10 mtr was built in i used a astatic teardrop mike brill it was .but my first ever rig was a maxcom 4e and god knows how many more came b4 my 148 yup happy days avoiding busby chatting to the yanks from my front room with my 200watt homebase burner and a gpa stuck up 30ft which made my tv go blank lol..deffo happy days..

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input Barry as you liked the video please remember to give it a thumbs up! "Your right it was GREAT fun at the time". Please also see my other videos regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Thank you for taking the time to post your comments. Those were the good old days no such thing as mobile phones computers in the home or Facebook, Good luck in all you do. Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

"Bit like Poacher turned Gamekeeper" Got one of those in my family too. Sometimes in our race to get to where we are going in life,we so often forget where we have been! Take care my friend. Regards Steve

[@alalan3735]

Cool!!! ;)

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi its great to hear from you again. Lets all hope there is some good skip we will all have some fun on the air then my friend. Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Thank you for your input,sorry for the late reply. Please take the time to see my other videos. Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Big 10-4 on that one good buddy. Keep it going my friend good luck in all you do! Regards 10 10

[@andrewhowden3887]

I remember Scarborough being busy in 81,2,3 so big city, s must have been hell !!!

[@Penn1969]

Thanks for this nostalgic look back at the early days of CB radio, oh how much fun it was back then. I wonder what some of these guys who appeared in the film are doing these days? It would be great to know if they are still in the radio

[@MauriatOttolink]

Wow..How stunningly important that is! The world and life as we know would end if he didn't get that right! It's a good job experts and gurus are around to keep it straight or we'd all be doomed.

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input please see my other videos regards Steve

[@M7XCB]

My 1st set was JAWS m2 40 ch think it was 1978 now I own one 100 radios today great days.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Steve...Great reply and pretty much to the point. Likely that those who DID find their way on to the Amateur Bands became super legit and moaners like me! Bit like Poacher turned Gamekeeper! Regards...

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your input my friend, very interesting! It seams that you in the USA had the big boom when it also had just became very poplar over here in the UK. The same thing killed it hear jammed packed night and day with CB'ers. Again here I must echo your words people still use CB in the UK but it will never be the same "sad". Well that's now what we call Nostalgia my friend! Regards Steve

[@M6PEC]

One of the rare times in life when something goes legal it goes bad, mums and dads bought there kids a set and sent them to the bedroom out of the way result hell on the air.

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your input yes they were happy days. Please see my other videos regards Steve

[@ruger9617]

Happy days turning up at a local market and handing over £60 for a Cobra 19x at a fruit and veg stall. Then a Ham International Concord 2 I started talking to a guy the other end of the town and eventually someone in Australia. The difference between a DX 27 and a Silver Rod. In 81 I got my brother a Colt 295 A then later got myself a Rotel RVC 240. Over the years I've owned a lot of rigs and still use one in the car. I'm buying a new house soon and ASAP I'll be getting the homebase set up again.

[@zerobeak]

excellent vid :*)

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@ruger9617]

Back in the late 70s CB radio was huge in the UK it seemed like everyone was on the air. I met a lot of people from the police to people that would never consider breaking the law to guys down the pup. Clubs sprang up all over the place it was fun and the only way to keep in touch before mobile phones or going down the amiture route.

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input as you liked the video please remember to give it a thumbs up! Please also see my other videos regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Many kind regards my friend for your input 10-10 until we do it again happy CB ing

[@SteveMinto1]

It great to here from you. No I would like to say we do but sorry to say no we don't but it would be great to hear them trying. Good luck in all you do my friend!! 10-10

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input my friend. I am so glad that you enjoyed it. Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Now that's what I am talking about Delta9 great stores of Nostalgia. There are still a lot out their if you ever want to pop back and give it ago!! But you might not need the twin fire stick this time good buddy lol :-) Good luck in all you do! Regards 10 10

[@fortymobile]

Cool Vid Man

[@SteveMinto1]

Hello an interesting question. I am not an authority but believe it started in the U.S.A. with the vast distances CB has to cover. They have radios with Usb this travels a greater distance than FM. These are freely available in the states, holiday makers would bring them back this started long before CB became legal over here. 27.555 Usb has long been a worldwide CB calling channel maybe as far back as early 60s we just joined them. As for the 5/6k this was a guide given for UK FM 4 watts only.

[@MegaTechnology2012]

God those were great days. my first introduction to CB was being given a single channel am CB set. it was great until the idiots ruined it . how many of us went on to obtain our class A and B radio ham license. thanks for sharing. 73's

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi its great to hear from you thank you for your input. I have other radio videos on you tube please go see them. Regards Steve

[@bonydox9]

I use both ham and cb but still find the cb more enjoyable simply because I don't have to worry about what I discuss on the air as on ham I have to follow a protocol. Cb is mainly used by tractor drivers in the daytime but at night it's a different thing , with more breakers getting back in to the hobby. Cb will never be like the early eighties cos of mobile phones and Internet are more accessible and the monstrous size of antennas puts lots of people off the hobby.

[@fluid123uk]

great. cheers

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi yes mums and dads bought kids what was "adults entertainment" the kids then did not understand it use, and just then played music on all the channels. Thanks for your input please see my other videos regards Steve

[@christophervann5427]

Brand new tristar,lovely

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@tangomike-tf4ux]

Somewhere theres a warehouse thats full of old ssb rigs all brand new,but covered in dust!!! Why cant i find it???

[@thecobraman]

THAT WAS SPOT ON BUDDY top marks

[@mikelee8520]

The very first CB I had was a Pace 23 channel, then onto a Super Tiger 40 channel, Vice President Roy, then Harrier CBX and many others, those were the days.

[@joemolinaro5316]

Yeah, the 23 channel was the only one available in the United States back in the 1970s, specially in 1977 when Smokey and the Bandit, made it very famously in that year and remember millions of people started using CBs after that movie in 1977. I think it was in the late 1970s when they came with the 40 channels CBs in the United States...

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@classicgrooves]

Spotted the good old Cobra 148 👍

[@SteveMinto1]

Thank you for your input i am sorry for the delay This was a great time for us long before Facebook and the mobile phone this was a great way to communicate. I don't believe the young of today would even start to understand what a freedom this was for us back then! But as with most things in life idiots ruined it. I do believe you're right in the amateur radio license but I do not believe that this has or could ever replace the freedom on the air we had back then ? 10 10 old friend and 73s

[@christophervann5427]

Used to talk all night on these in the 80s, I've been lucky enough to own most cbs, I've just started out again with a tristar 777, superstar 3900 and an absolute mint audioline 341, you gotta have at least 1 legal one haha

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@williamryan6162]

freq 27 James st Walthamstow

[@MobyDave1583]

You can talk to dx on any frequency Single Side Band or AM It all startewd the first day CB went on the market Dave Radio Canada 1583

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input my friend please give my video's a thumbs up if you like them! Try getting a twig for that old home base and jumbo of yours lots still on there! Please see my other videos regards Steve....73

[@wkat950]

Glad the States could help the UK out with the CB's. I remember those days. The "old country" may legalize CB on the AM channel this year as per Wikipedia. Maybe we can interest you in Afghanistan war surplus as well hehehe.

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your input I fully understand your point regarding using bands that are not yours. But one way or another anyone seeing this video who were CB operators at the outset of CB in the UK. By that I mean the AM days pre 1981. Then I think its fair to say that we are all a bit guilty of being spectrum thieves! And some of those spectrum thieves have now since found there way on to amateur radio. Has this help keep the numbers up in the amateur radio community probably. Regards Steve

[@Thc14Me]

10 roger on that one. Been looking at a few rigs of late, quite like the 10/11/12m jobs. Programmable via usb, sounds good to me. Just gotta convince the trouble an' strife. lol

[@joeletecatkoss6261]

My first cb radio was stag 357 in 1977.

[@ruger9617]

joe Le tec At koss I have one of those in the attic they turn up from time to time but usually without the Mike which had the Mike gane built in

[@Thc14Me]

Is it supposed to be a good year for skip 2013? Last one I remember was '80/'81, wall to wall spaghetti in the afternoons, yanks at teatime, ah they were the days.

[@emohruo7996]

Became legal here in Australia in 1975 but with only 18 channels AM and SSB mostly the same frequencies as the US bar 1 then everyone got the mods when the PLL sets arrived a few years later .Nowdays you don't need a licence for them but it is quiet compared to the 70's and 80's .There was really good skip between here and the UK in 86 87 88 on SSB and I'm talking mobile .

[@CONNER3497]

I'm 17 and I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Midland 400 from 79! this can transmit to the UK (where I live) and the US OF A! so I will be broadcasting from my house soon and when I have a car its going on that too! much more exciting than using a phone ...10-4 !

[@SteveMinto1]

Conner thanks for your input. You should have great fun with it my friend. Please see my other video, regards Steve

[@CONNER3497]

SteveMinto1 Wilco buddy , also getting an up to date CB for good measures

[@SteveMinto1]

It will all pick up gain soon Conner! With new bands comming soon and also sideband radio on its way go look on OFCOM's web site for more information. Regards Steve 10/4

[@CONNER3497]

SteveMinto1 I know it went downhill in 2001 due to mobile phones etc but now it's coming back !

[@SteveMinto1]

Good luck with your CB'ing Conner, regards Steve

[@shaneweightman]

I'm surprised this video didnt show or at least say something about the day it was legalised ,, and the man who made the first legal transmission and the importance of who he was ,, in trafalger square that day in Nov 81

[@PBC66]

Some researcher for this report got his facts wrong: "When C.B. became legal in America, the craze began to die out." The class D (27MHz) C.B. radio service was created in the U.S. in 1958, so had already been legal for a good many years before the big craze of the 1970's. (There were also the earlier class A & B services which had been around since the late 1940's, although being UHF they were a rather different story.)

[@SteveMinto1]

Thank you very much for your input my friend, it was most helpful. Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Dave this may apply to Canadian market but it didn't applied to the UK market. FM only in the UK unless you had an illegal radio that could transmit those frequencies.And then if you did use them and got caught it was a hefty fine, or off to prison, either way your radio would be confiscated! Thanks for your input. Good luck in all you do! Regards 10 10

[@The-Vincelli-Channel]

Still going strong now..

[@maninthevan53]

lol awesome

[@nevilledimon]

10-10

[@MobyDave1583]

Yes i Somewhat know about the REadio laws in the UK The guy asked when DX started on CB radio And I replied that Dx could be talked to Not Legally mind you but eversince the cb was first manufactured, Ans probably before that with illegal hams! Anyways I have talked to the UK from Eastern Canada many times in the late 70's Not sure when though but did the uk get Am sometime in the 90's?

[@M6PEC]

Keep you greasy side down and your shinny side up, got ya copy in my pocket and am off like a rocket, 10 10 till we do it agen am down am gone .................. iam a radio ham now but it was GREAT fun at the time what killed it you asked? it going legal !!! Barry 2e0pec 73

[@Vulcan558B2]

Come in Gary Bowler...over over

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input and sorry for the delay. Regards

[@timtop5542]

I also don't give a shit....I'll go wherever I want :)

[@charlieoscar09]

Hey its 10.4 for OK. and 10.10 for goodbye....not 73's ... 10.10 till u do it again.

[@inkey2]

CB has been legal in the USA since at least 1964, but you did needed a license back then. Not sure what the person doing this broadcast mean't by it died out in the usa when it became "legal"....thats not true at all. What killed CB in the USA was that it became so popular, (seemed to peak in 1978) the airways were just jammed night and day with CB'ers......then cell phones came in and killed it a little more. People still use CB in the USA but not like in 1960's and 70s

[@SteveMinto1]

Hello gentleman, you both are untitled to your own opinions over this. And I have been fair in giving you both chance to say what you think, But.can you both please now be so kind as to agree to disagree and leave it at that and respect my wishes regarding this. Other wise I will have no option but to remove both of your comments from my video as this is now a slanging match that is becoming very insulting Regards Steve

[@TheZeke1974]

By 1981 here in the states the CB radio fad was all done and gone...

[@3butalcomp3]

TheZeke1974 i don't know about that- CB kicked ass all through the 1980's and i remember around 1997 is was pretty dead. I guess it depends on where you live in the U.S.-

[@petchharrison]

i was into cb in the 80,s and 90,s. lots of greesy dago,s swareing all the time playing music .. jeff .. ps dont know what i saw in it is was crap.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Don't know what the other guy said.Can't find it. It's not a matter of being entitled to opinions. This is no slanging match. You intend to use an illegal radio, causing problems to legal users. Make inflammatory remarks..expect flames. Removing comments is the last resort of a scoundrel defeated in argument. You are not faced with "no option". Removal would simply concede defeat. Recognition that you have met your match, and how!! Abandoning foul abuse would be a welcomed concession. contd.

[@MauriatOttolink]

That had nothing to do with Amateur Radio...whatsoever! Andy Pandy's mentioning of super hi band is his acknowledgement of his theft of freqs. already allocated to other, legal users for many years..users who take exams to gain their licences, PAY for them and take umbridge at the spectrum thieves like Andy Pandy who thinks it's great fun to steal that which is not his. Would he have been as philosphical if someone broke in his place and stole his gear, before he sold it? Somehow I think not!

[@checkmate440]

Do you people in the UK speak hillbilly on cb like they do hear in the states?

[@MauriatOttolink]

That is why I make assumptions on your intelligence level. If your brains were dynamite, they wouldn't blow your hat off! Announce intention to use radio to which you are not entitled.... you are fair game!

[@MauriatOttolink]

Contd.My opinion of your intelligence badly needs reappraisal but my bewilderment about the abusive & foul mouthed attacks in other postings is unabated. It's more than obvious that a calming of attitude & change in direction could lead you to far more rewarding activities where you would be welcomed OPENLY. Dump the attitude. Your articulacy would go well amongst the folks whom you currently despise! We DO have problems within our ranks.You could become poacher turned gamekeeper. Eh? Contd.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Suggest that you intend to use radios unlicenced on 10 & 12 meters & I have the right to attack you as I choose. I'm unconcerned about your opinion of my attitude & if you announce plans to enter amateur bands, you can expect no other response from licenced amateurs.who are not "so called". They have a licence. I do not think that the air ways (not waves) are mine nor have I said so. Total snob is childish. Hence my doubts about your intelligence. Quite unimpressed by your phoney indignation.

[@MauriatOttolink]

You'll get flattened pronto with BIG legal signals if you start CBing on there. Least you can expect is you'll be ignored. Go away and mind your own business. Find some other toy which is down at your level of intelligence.

[@bigpimp347]

and where's part two of the video ?? any CBers or nostalgics just search reporting london and find the proper video this guy has ripped off..

[@SteveMinto1]

Big 10-4 on that one good buddy. Keep it going my friend good luck in all you do! Regards 10 10

[@SteveMinto1]

Hi thanks for your input yes they were happy days. Please see my other videos regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input as you liked the video please remember to give it a thumbs up! Please also see my other videos regards Steve

[@tangomike-tf4ux]

Somewhere theres a warehouse thats full of old ssb rigs all brand new,but covered in dust!!! Why cant i find it???

[@SteveMinto1]

Keep looking and let me know when you do!!

[@SteveMinto1]

Hello gentleman, you both are untitled to your own opinions over this. And I have been fair in giving you both chance to say what you think, But.can you both please now be so kind as to agree to disagree and leave it at that and respect my wishes regarding this. Other wise I will have no option but to remove both of your comments from my video as this is now a slanging match that is becoming very insulting Regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input as you liked the video please remember to give it a thumbs up! Please also see my other videos regards Steve

[@SteveMinto1]

Thanks for your input as you liked the video please remember to give it a thumbs up! Please also see my other videos regards Steve