Reporting London - CB Radio, part one

[@elliotspencer2648]

Brings back so many memories and here in 2021 im still a cb user!. 10-4!!.

[@peterfong2241]

Blessed love to all, I have bin a operator since 1977 an still is up to this day 2023, waiving my hands from Jamaica west Indies !!

[@technic7762]

The widow maker on his concord 2 talking to shellfish with the famous mk1 cobra bleep .Getting busted and soon as you get out straight to the shop to purchase an illegal radio love it

[@m0ogy]

What a Top Video.........brings back memorys for sure

[@mikehagan4320]

Its Tops!

[@24nov67]

this takes me back. i remember the first time i spoke on a cb radio about 1978/9 the guy who lived at the top of my street ronnie (oddball) gave me a shot of his am set. i still remember him driving around in his little cream coloured mini 1275 gt with the antenna on top and all us younger guys thinking he was cool lol. i think he stays in brighton now? all the best ronnie if you're watching this.

[@sahhull]

I got my first CB in 1979. 10 year old me with a Superstar 360 with a dodgy channel selector and channel segments and DV27. I had a bit of a break but I'm back again and Im still using the same 1980's rig and antenna. I still have the DV27 too. I took my Cobra 148GTL to the CB shop for a meter bulb. They 'accidentally' sold it to someone. Never went back to that shop again. I caused no TVI on 12w AM/SSB .... From 1981. I wiped out a bunch with TVI's once I got my 4w UK legal CB

[@rigsearch]

AM and SSB CB radio becomes legal in UK from Fri 27th June 2014. It's been a very long wait !

[@SuperCanuck777]

Too late for many.

[@dave-rn7zd]

@@SuperCanuck777 round my way fm killed it dipole city. with all the ass that go with it. the old am was the best days of it.

[@SuperCanuck777]

@@dave-rn7zd agreed. when it was legalized the freqencies became overcrowded and assholes who decided they had to jump on the CB craze bandwagon became muppets often just messing about and deadkeying too. one round here who made himself out to be a good breaker exposed himself when i made a comment to smash his windscreen. he stopped gonking and deadkeying tho !!.

[@bigbone88]

after all have cell phones ,fucking bastards and no one on cb

[@videosuperhighway7655]

Wow cb radio restaurant how cool

[@daniel59104]

big big love to cb in the 80s i was 10 when i got my cb and 1991 the dti got my 148 brl210 that was the good old days. daniel op1 ch31hihi rti 117fmlo band islington london.......xxxxxx great vid by the way.

[@TheOptimod]

Memories of the Hygain 5, Major 588, Superstar 360, Midland 6001 plus the legal rigs Harrier CBX, Rotel 240, Uniace 200 etc good times.

[@shropshirelass66]

thank you for posting this - it brought back memories

[@carlbrutananadilewski3345]

At 4:25 TUP9 D-104 Microphone and a Cobra 148GTL DX nice setup 👍🏻

[@chrislittle9057]

Love it and its making a come back aswell...it starting to pick up again.....i ordered a new thunderpole tx hand held radio...and I can say technology in cb radio has improved lots since I was on in the 90s...😏😏

[@LazyCookPete]

Note the bullshit Amstrad product placement. None of us would have touched that Amstrad shit back in the day.

[@123Lesgeorg]

This program was aired, the week CB was Legalized, I first used CB in early 78, @ 1min 37 is a green Bedford truck, it was filmed at the Top of Grey's Inn Road, near Kings Cross Station, as I was on my way from North East London back towards the M4 west. I was never stopped by the police, although I often went to Scotland, even parked up one night in Berwick upon Tweed, on the side of the Dock, about 50' away from a Customs Launch, they never battered an eyelid. I never knew any Lorry Driver that was busted, many motorway police cars had CB's in them, they would even listen to the drivers and joined in sometimes. Only one policeman in Lockerbie who used it for nicking Drivers for speeding.

[@Penn1969]

The reason that girl is called morning glory is because she's always up early in the morning to operate :-)

[@philiprhodes5537]

Yeah she’s more than welcome to see my morning glory and operate on it as long as she wants😂

[@timothybrown7792]

She's no girl she's a lady

[@rigsearch]

Tremendous videos (1 &2) - really takes me back. Still have a soft spot for AM CB radio and still hoping it will eventually be allowed here. Thanks for the videos.

[@Georgew2777]

Only illegal if they catch you haha. I'm in the US, and they just allowed transmitting on FM

[@dw7920]

I'm omewhat late after the event (12 years to be exact) but finally, AM is now permitted in the UK - along with SSB too. Who would have ever thought we'd see the day, eh?

[@Doogie53]

It is legal now 2023 lol.

[@24nov67]

she should have chosen the handle margerine lady as she looks as though she spreads well lol.

[@alzeNL]

Its interesting in 2024 that there is still a nice activity on 11m and 27.555 on USB, its amazing what can be picked up with a simple setup. 27FM still has ocassional blips, always fun when there is a 'lift' on and can make contacts very far on FM. Interesting video.

[@Ossie12pints]

The CB shop "Frequency 27" is now a taxi firm. There's even a CB aerial on the roof! Can't be from 1981 surely?

[@christopherhulse8385]

I would certainly think so! many CB aerials still around my area from the old days.

[@mikehagan4320]

"Fuzzy Bear dont Care."

[@helraiser666painkil]

Brilliant video I really wish that I would of grown up in 1981 when the CB became legal in the UK shame really but I started using CB back in 1995 when I was 15 years old and my very first CB radio was a Binnatone Route 66 and I had a CB Di-pole at the back of my parents house and a Eurosonic 3-5 amp power supply and at first I just listened around the 40 channels and I spoke to a friend next door but one and I managed a 5 minute QSO and in the end I got mic fright and I switched off and went to bed I'll never forget my first time on the CB it was crazy and 28 years later I'm still on the CB plus the amateur radio and it's all been good fun through the years I've been on the CB and I have met some weird and wonderful people but it's still a great hobby to take up. Thanks and 73's everyone cheers. Stephen M3SNV 73's.

[@TRIPPLEJAY00]

Wow what a great video. I run a CRT 33 6900N and have it wide banded for 10 11 12 meters.

[@2steppa3]

I love my Colt Excalibur mint like new works brilliant.

[@Eric-zi1oz]

The eyeball. Cool. In the 1970s we had a pizza place here that you could "call in" your order over the CB radio!

[@davew1234]

Can you remember the address of the eyeball Eric?

[@WasatchIntercept]

A government official who thinks he's doing something important, by protecting little old ladies from having their television watching disrupted. This must be some kind of a joke.

[@BoB4jjjjs]

He was a proper TIT without a bloody clue!

[@millsoutdoors8555]

I’ll take a radio any day

[@radioarchives101]

Sir Timothy Raison, rip 03/11/11

[@mjspice100]

I always thought the issue was less about little old ladies and their TV sets and more to do with interference with emergency service radio systems which could potentially have serious consequences. That was the way I saw it anyway..

[@daniel59104]

big big love to cb in the 80s i was 10 when i got my cb and 1991 the dti got my 148 brl210 that was the good old days. daniel op1 ch31hihi rti 117fmlo band islington london.......xxxxxx

[@kmonib]

Thanks, glad you like it.

[@321CatboxWA]

@4:38 TRANSWORLD SIDBANDERS CLUB 42X321 1986 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iansmith7087]

love my kenwood ts-870 still use it now

[@matthewshaw6275]

Still got many radios most are up the loft ? & 934mhz cbs good old days many hours up on the clees hills

[@johnransby8912]

Denis Tuohy, nice memories of this man.

[@rajnirvan3336]

I remember him also told the news. Who was the guy who replaced him after Denis left

[@S7EVE_P]

Better times, I want to go back!

[@Solocat1]

OUT STANDING the GOOD OL DAYS!!!!

[@deltaoned1]

The good old days :-)

[@125or200px]

What really annoys me is that some people saw CB as a fashion item and just binned it after a while. Mind you i dont mind that really,because we can still buy the radios they didnt want. Binatone 5 star,York 863,Harrier cbx,Uniden 200.... THANKYOU CB GOD!!!

[@rajnirvan3336]

Who replaced Denis Tuohy on this programme. I remember this was later rebranded as Thames Reports

[@sandymeister9422]

1223 mad max Nova Scotia Canada waving.

[@Moletastic69]

Rolling a Buick Rivera in the UK? With a CB? Well done.

[@sahhull]

I had a 68 Buick Wildcat in the early 90's and the CB rig.

[@CycolacFan]

The other guy had an Olds Cutlass…

[@ninjaman1138]

what is hte car that widow maker is driving?

[@PBC66]

@soundnicetome Not sure what you mean by the government making it illegal in the 1980's. In fact following legalization of the CB 27/81 band in 1981 the government actually expanded the service in 1987 by then permitting use of the CEPT channels as well (still FM, but using the U.S. channel allocations which are also commonly used throughout most of Europe). Both bands may still be used legally today in the U.K., and in fact since then the regulations have been relaxed, removing some of the restrictions on antennas from the original 1981 specification and removing the requirement to have a license. The only C.B. service which has been removed since its inception in 1981 is the CB 934/81 band which operated on 934 MHz, which due to its UHF characteristics is a rather different story altogether.

[@invade81]

Good bit of British documentary 'acting' here. 'Fozzy Bear' looks like Mike from the Young Ones crossed with Griff Rhys Jones playing Bamber Gascoine in the University Challenge episode. The shop keeper is doing his best to act natural although the set up Fozzy wants is conveniently sitting inches from his right hand just as he walks in... "Here's one I made earlier!"

[@TheZeke1974]

What a hoot! Loved it!!!!

[@Penn1969]

I think that "widow maker" probably got arrested more for wearing those stupid sunglasses and jacket more than four using illegal CB equipment

[@jeremywestern7067]

"jam sandwich" lol

[@melv1965]

love it was on the radio for years my handle was wino

[@pataponete]

Has anyone got any information on the eyeball restaurant? So cool but can't find anything about it online. Cheers!

[@NUBBY39]

@Archie Graves Well its pretty obvious it ain't open anymore bit of nich restaurant just for CBers and CB ain't exactly booming now is it.

[@RobBob555]

Ah those were the days.. just fannies sitting on 19 now threatening each other .. sad

[@BoB4jjjjs]

It got that way when they made them far to cheap! Filled the airways with all the trash life could muster!

[@BoB4jjjjs]

@wrestlegamia productions If that is the worst you heard you were lucky, but all was quiet until the Covid thing!

[@Jimmyzb36]

Some say,,, Too much Government

[@porterbennett7041]

Y convoy of all songs?

[@timothybrown7792]

I would like to no who morning glory was! very nice bit of class there

[@andrewward937]

The eyeball I wonder if it is still open lol

[@timothybrown7792]

You wish! and so do I

[@24nov67]

@rigsearch i think it will eventualy be legalised along with ssb as ofcom are slowly losing the argument over interferance as radio and tv signal's are now for the most part digital. added to that nearly all of mainland europe has now legalised it (with restricted power) &as far as i'm aware it is only the uk government that has asked for an opt out.

[@timothybrown7792]

It will be legalised in 2014. iam a time Traveller from the year 2021 lol

[@NUBBY39]

I still remember the pratt who was serving in the shop trying to put on his mid Atlantic accent, why he did it I never worked it out

[@mayedd]

NUBBY39 love to know who he was

[@NUBBY39]

@@mayedd Sorry mate cant remember been such a long time ago now, TBH I don't really think knew his name.

[@mayedd]

NUBBY39 shame - some of the people from this video must still be about

[@NUBBY39]

@@mayedd Maybe they are but I doubt they are still using CBs , alot of them it was just a fad until the next fad came along ,its only silly old gits like me still using them lol I was on it before some of these cb shops was about I started in 1975 very early days in the UK it was totally illegal to use you could count on one hand how many breakers was about in you area lol.

[@BoB4jjjjs]

Mid Atlantic! Could he swim and talk! lol Sorry!

[@LazyCookPete]

Citizens Banned by Rig and the Twigs :D

[@joeletecatkoss6261]

Fm is not a weave band it's a mode of communications

[@uglycustard4488]

With FM the frequency of the waveform of each cycle is varied and the amplitude of the waveform peaks stays constant.With AM it's the opposite the amplitude of the cycle varies and frequency stays the same thus FM uses more bandwidth than AM.

[@mjspice100]

This was a big thing in the early 80s as I remember it, I think people were captivated by the song “Convoy”. Once it was legalised it seemed to die out quite quickly (or that’s how it seemed to me at least). 10 4 Rubber Duck etc. just sounds plain stupid in a Grimsby accent.. 😂 Is CB still a thing in 2023?

[@pmr446]

Yes cb is still active but it is used for dx now (long distance contacts) similar to ham radio. No more handles instead we use callsigns.

[@nuchairco4137]

Where did that car come from? A gold riveara from the 70s how old is this?

[@doug5uk]

Fuzzy Bear used to buy them from the continent. US servicemen imported them and then sold them when their tour ended.

[@Solocat1]

A Cobra 148 GTL DX I want one (Again!!)

[@randykitchleburger2780]

Question, why was AM not Okay but FM was?

[@bill-2018]

Did you not listen?

[@2steppa3]

6:53 looks like a Bremi BRL500 amp on the right 🙂

[@uglycustard4488]

Boy fozzy bear spends some dosh mind! Wonder how many of those Tristar sidebanders he lost......!?

[@jeep146]

Cell phones killed most interest in CB use. That's why people text and drive or shall I say text and die.

[@Gw0wvl]

The Fozzy Bear don't care 👍

[@slammerf16]

Do you think Amstrad sponsored that episode?

[@geraldscott4302]

Sure wish CB was like that in the U.S., like it was back in the '70s. Today nobody uses CB anymore.

[@soundnicetome]

The mobile phone plus naf legislation took the use of what was clearly a very popular hobby back then in the 80s and killed it stone dead. It was free (Apart from obtaining a very easy license requirement) It became very popular until the goverment PC brigade made it illegal. We now have the use of mobile phone usage but their use is NOT free. Will always carry a cb unit cos its still FREE today....best bit of fun ever invented?

[@johnny45irish]

the bombfront, lol. the old days.

[@carllowe8065]

this takes me back..shoestring,orc382 derbyshire

[@volkerking5932]

in the 80s I've a satellite 4000 with FM 40channels. 😂

[@rajnirvan3336]

Blimey a blast from the past, remember seeing this as a child after Thames news back in the day. Wish programmes like this still were on unlike the shit these days

[@paolobenmore3504]

I am not sure but I think It looks like it's in Walthamstow E17 at the back end of walthamstow market. The rail station is St James street station.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@paolobenmore3504 oh right. I used to live not far from there in Newham. Still live in London though

[@paolobenmore3504]

@@rajnirvan3336 I used to live in Newham too (Stratford) grew up there and went to school there in the 1980s spent some good days there. got married later in life and moved, like you still live in london. I remember the CB craze well, anyone who was anyone wanted or had a CB. Good days.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@paolobenmore3504 I was in Manor Park

[@nigelmoffat6355]

who sang that "breaker one four" song?

[@paganphil100]

The singer is Kris Kristofferson (from the film "Convoy").

[@NUBBY39]

Philip Fletcher No it wasn't Kris Kristofferson it was Country & Western singer named C W Mc Call

[@RobBob555]

true

[@kmonib]

The song with shots of cars and aerials is Convoy by C W McCall, but in the Eye Ball restaurant it’s something else...

[@kmonib]

The CB Song by Citizens Banned kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXvXf6Nrprl8jcU

[@Team-fabulous]

Bye the way..good oel Fozzy Bear moonlites at the weekend in an ELO tribute band..

[@red88ization]

were did you find this

[@edlightman4936]

you should be glad to have fm cb . here in the usa all we have is am cb. in the car you can't hear much too much because of the noise from high voltage wires on the poles, fuel pumps in cars ,heater blower motors ect.

[@bratina501]

You still have the problem of an elevated noise floor even on FM. I use FM at 29 MHz in the 10 meter amateur band and suffer from noise related issues at times.

[@astanger1]

great theme tune it had

[@tom-ehill2713]

What a rush😂😂

[@VicGreenBitcoin]

2:50 Here name was Glory hole Girl??? lolz

[@tommabon3052]

Amstrad had a reputation for cheep shoddy electrical goods all show and not much go. The cb radios they made bucked the trend after a glitch when the mikes were wired up back to front they got a reputation for being good quality radios. The thing that pout people of was the style it looked cheep and the mike looked as if it came of a kids toy but under all that was a good honest rig with none of the bleed over that other rigs costing more could have. They also made one if not the first one hander with all the controles in the mike. I know of a few people who bought the Baker phone just because it looked like a car phone and this was in the day defore mobile phones and a car phone was a very expensive toy only for the very rich or big companies.

[@uglycustard4488]

Amstrad tv's were shit! As a teenager I was an apprentice tv engineer and one day I dropped and smashed a brand new Amstrad 'stereo' set and my boss just said,,ah don't worry it's only an Amstrad!!

[@SWIZZRADIOS]

SWISS-CB MK III (CB-radio) for ever.

[@futureundergroundnation]

Fozzy bear is my uncle 😆

[@BoB4jjjjs]

If they had brought out FM and SSB only sets with 80 channels I think it would have been a lot better with less interference. They would not have had the amount of AM FM SSB sets around now, 120 channels would have been better still. But that last plunker interviewed on TV was a total a*****

[@Joloke08]

Seriously does anybody know anybody in this clip? Id love to track them down for a where are they now? Does anybody know the real names of the people? Its hard to believe that there's no other news footage out there,in its golden days CB was bigger than the internet!!!!

[@invade81]

I wonder this constantly with vintage TV clips. Wonder where 'Morning Glory' is now, other than in her late 50's. She was a looker!

[@mayedd]

Transmitters 'R' Us see if you can track them down :)

[@chriswebb3015]

We're still around (Widow maker and Angel Gabriel - Chris and Gabriella Webb) married now 35yrs this year and living on the Cote d'azur in the South of France!

[@markhimpfen1321]

@@chriswebb3015 HI CHRIS DT MARK FROM WALTHAMSTOW MENNY ARE 00 I SEE BARRY ZULU IN HIS ESTAT AGENTS DOWN THE ROAD FROM 27s ABOUT 1990 BIG KENNY JG 00 RIGGER I SEE IN HIS ROLLS ROYCE 1986 JOHN SCRAP YARD HARRY 1996 AS I SAY MENNY 00 NOW STILL ON MY MIDLAND 7001 40 YEARS NOW NOW REGARDS MARK LOVE THE 7 FOOT FIRE STICK LOLOL

[@paolobenmore3504]

The area looks to me like Walthamstow E17, next to st james street rail station. at the back end of the market.

[@125or200px]

Fozzy Bear,if your watching this video,id love to know what you look like now,and how embarrased do you feel watching yourself in the 80s????? lol

[@kmonib]

It’s a small world! Even smaller because the net!! A friend of mine is a friend of Huggy Bears son!

[@mayedd]

@@kmonib no way!!! Is Fozzy still around?

[@timothybrown7792]

Is morning glory still around?!

[@andrewward100]

Were are these people now bet they havent got cb radios any more

[@eckeynecker]

Theres still old school breakers about Liverpool that have never gone off the airwaves .

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

Happy days

[@johnnybagwash2456]

WHATS YOUR HANDLE DAVE

[@Team-fabulous]

Fozzy Bear he dont care lolololol...

[@andrewbiny913]

Great times

[@cubwolf]

3.32 Cobra 148 and a Jumbo driving by lol

[@johnroberts8512]

Superstar 2000 on the forklift too

[@MrRichard57000]

10-000 antennas a week???Miljons of users in london///??and fussy bear buying a tristar 747 over the counter for 180 without blinking an eye???omg times have changed a lot....but a very cool video......

[@bill-2018]

Hardly anybody on now round here. It's very quiet. As a radio amateur it's not a.m., certainly not at four Watts which is the problem, it's badly made and cheap television and hi-fi systems. Our Fergusson t.v. was great with no problems even with my 100 Watts s.s.b. They missed a marketing chance by not advertising them as virtually immune to breakthrough from c.b. radio. G4GHB.

[@ChocolateTampon]

£190 back then?! Jesus Christ

[@Eric-zi1oz]

1981 after the CB fad died off here in the states.

[@Andy-sh9eq]

The real reason for fm only was because the range for AM was much much bigger than fm, its all about control of communication of the public countrywide, there was no mobile phones back in 1981, also everyone could hear you in one go unlike phones. Also no seatbelt laws untill 1983.

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Wanna get arthur daley on the case

[@rradishuk]

brilleant 5 stars.

[@eogg25]

an intercom would work just as well in a resturante, cb is ok for the trucking industry, it can get boring talking to yourself on long distant drives. you cant beat a cell phone for emergencies. cb is just a fad. hardly anyone uses them in north America except truckers.

[@24nov67]

@rigsearch Don't hold your breath lol.

[@johnroberts8512]

Been 8yrs since legal UK AM/SSB

[@andrewward100]

Ham international concord 2

[@MrSuperheterodyne]

Yes indeed, sold mine 2 years ago. Got a Hygain 5 now.

[@pauljones8135]

The names make me laugh

[@carllowe8065]

i bet miss morning glory gave a few that in her time lol