CB Radio

[Bozza]

Names I recall from my Worthing CB days circa 1986...

Hot Iron - a lady called Barbara who lived in the Columbia Drive area.
Royal Blue - a bloke called Roy, I think, who was either blind and/or in a wheelchair.
Blackrod - a youngish bloke called Richard.
A sister and brother, Julia and (another) Richard - can't recall their handles.
A single mother from East Worthing called Jill.
A bloke called Andy, who was previously the lodger of Jill, but was married. He still went round to knock her off from time to time.

I didn't have sideband, but my rig did have what were in effect channels 41 and 42, allowing conversations to take place out of earshot of most.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Bryn: Nessa, come in Nessa, do you read me?

Nessa: 1 9 rubber duck. Oh. Bryn I'm not gonna tell you again. You can't call me Nessa on the airwaves. You gotta to use my handle.

Bryn: What is that?

Nessa: My codename. Robert Mugabe

Bryn: Sorry Robert. I keep forgetting. What's my name?

Nessa: Bryn

Bryn: No no, my handle, I know we're in the car but you said...

Nessa: Dame Judi Dench

 

[The Grockle]

For those who miss their old CB radio there is a CB radio app available on android. Just search CB radio chat, a few too many racists for my liking but still very amusing, especially the redneck Americans you get on there!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
And a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We's headin' for bear on Eye-one-O
'bout a mile outta Shakeytown
I says "Pigpen, this here's Rubber Duck"
"And I'm about to put the hammer down"

('cause we got a little ole convoy rockin' thru the night)
(Yeah, we got a little ole convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)
(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)


By the time we got into Tulsa-town we had 85 trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears 's wall-to-wall
Yeah, them smokeys 's thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck"
"We about to go a-huntin' bear"

Well, we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four
Like a rocket-sled on rails
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that "Chi-town"
Them bears was a-gettin smart
They brought up some reinforcements
From the "Illinois" National Guard

There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps
'n' rigs of ev'ry size
Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears
And choppers filled the skies
Well, we shot the line, we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse microbus

Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey Shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I says "Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck"
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll"
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I says "let them truckers roll, ten-four"

 

[Gazwag]

It was a foggy day on the sixth of May
In a Scammell haulin' bricks
It was just crackin' dawn and I started to yawn
Cos I couldn't find any nice chicks.
I'd tried Newport Pagnell, Toddington,
And even Watford Gap,
But after so many eggs and chips, sausage and beans
What I really needed was a nap.
It's a lonely life, truck driving
But it's better than a bike
Cos when you're up in the cab, you're the king of the road
And it's dead romantic, like.
And then I remembered my two-way radio,
So I started feelin' better,
And I thought "I'll start a convoy"
"You know, just like that American feller."


[Chorus]
Thus began the saga
On the M1 Motorway
Of the biggest bloomin' convoy
Outside the USA.
Why not join our line-up?
It's completely free.
All you need is transport
And a current MOT.
Convoy!


[On the CB]
Hello, this is Super Scouse callin'. Anyone out there, come on?
Hello, hello, this is Plastic Chicken, go off?
That's "come on" - what's your load, Plastic Chicken?
Er, well it would have been quick-drying cement, but the rain got in - do you know anyone who wants to buy a three-ton brick?

So there we were, the two of us,
At the start of something big.
There was Plastic Chicken with his brick on wheels,
And me in my big rig.
With every junction that we passed
Others would tag on
There was even a London Transport bus
"Hey, that's a nice wagon - fares please..."
It certainly was an impressive sight,
To see us on the road
There was vehicles of every shape and size
It certainly had growed.
Suddenly there was this commotion,
There was a circus, and a fair.
There was an animal acrobatic act
"Ooh look - a bear in the air!"

[Chorus]
You're listening to the saga,
On the M1 Motorway.
Of the biggest blooming convoy,
Outside the USA.
We're half-way through our story,
But please don't go away.
They're on Spaghetti Junction
"We could be here all day..."
Convoy!

[On the CB] Hello, Plastic Chicken to Super Scouse, gerroff, I mean come in, er, come on - oh, do I have to say this every time?
Yeah - have you seen any fuzzboxes? - that's slang for police cars.
Er, Jackanory, Super Scouse - that's slang for No!
That's Negatory, you berk...
Ooh I say, is this a private convoy or can anyone join in?
What's your wheels, our kid?
Would you believe, a camper...?

Spaghetti Junction was coming up
So we were bound to lose a few.
And sure enough, the fork-lift truck,
Disappeared heading up towards Crewe.
The combine harvester shred a wheel,
And the driver lost control.
And a mobile DJ crashed his van,
So we ain't gonna play no Soul, 10 - 4.


[Chorus]
So we end our story,
On the M1 Motorway.
Of the biggest blooming convoy,
Outside the USA.
This record is good value,
As you can plainly see.
It's labelled as a tax disc
Though it's [words indistinct]
Convoy!

[On the CB]
Er, Plastic Chicken to Super Scouse, there's a big black limo coming up behind...
Er, what about it?
Well it's got a flag on the front and a funny number plate - "HRH 1"
Mercy sakes, good buddy, you'd better give it the front door and wave her on, like...
Will do, Super Scouse, I'm waving her on - ooh look, she's waving back, isn't that nice...
Plastic Chicken, do you want to stick it in behind that suicide jockey?
What's a suicide jockey?
As it happens, How's about...
Er, Plastic Chicken, don't you think you'd better change gear for this hill?
What's wrong with the gear I've got on, doesn't it look right?
Change gear, ram your foot on the floor and change the gear, what you talking about, you don't know how to drive a truck do you, you've no idea how to drive a truck, you're mad...

 

[macky]

anyon eremebetr the cb club up by the police station

 

[dingodan]

This thread has brought back some ace memories.

This

 

[fork me]

I thought it was 1-9 for a copy I had a Maxcom 4-E that had 50 channels

1-4 was the main contact channel. 1-9 was the truckers channel, but a lot of people used that instead of 1-4 because 1-4 got taken over by idiots, especially in the early days.

I used to use CB in the mid 80s, we had a CB club with a couple of rigs after school. Got great reception from the attic rooms at Cardinal Newman.

 

[Chris45]

Used to be on there as High voltage in the early 80's in Worthing, About the same time as the be silly and female be sexy lot were on there, and having cheese and wine meetings on the top floors of multi-storey car parks, can’t remember many handles apart from Tango Mike, red fox, golden earning, and Joe ninety.

 

[Hastings woody]

I remember, max range for my homebase was about 15 miles if you were lucky. I used to spend the evening after school on wind ups pretending to be someone i wasn't.don't know how i wasn't beaten. My handle was wondering willy.dont know why,thought it was cool even though i still thought it was for pissing out of. Keep your middle finger wigleling,keep your front seat giggling, keep your snake in the grass,keep the smokeys off your arse. me gone bye.

 

[xenophon]

Did anyone else on here use to use CB radio?


My Mum recently moved to the west country and dug out my old radio and magmount aerial, would it be worth setting it up again or is it completly obsolete?

Also, what was your handle?

Antenna, not aerial LOL - aerials only receive, antennae send/receive (hark at me)

I was "Ed the Ted"

 

[c0lz]

lol met the wife on the C-B radio,
those were the days didn't need to take girls out then just go out for a eye-ball, didnt like the look of them then just drove start past


handle ... money-maker ...

 

[The Grockle]

I remember, max range for my homebase was about 15 miles if you were lucky. I used to spend the evening after school on wind ups pretending to be someone i wasn't.don't know how i wasn't beaten. My handle was wondering willy.dont know why,thought it was cool even though i still thought it was for pissing out of. Keep your middle finger wigleling,keep your front seat giggling, keep your snake in the grass,keep the smokeys off your arse. me gone bye.

I remember when the skip was up in the summer speaking to someone in burgess hill and luton(i was based in Redhill) When i was bored in the summer i'd drag my cb, 12volt fire alarm battery and magmount to the top of the north downs where you could pick up other users in london and all over surrey and sussex.
met some great people on the cb and had some interesting eyeballs including a 60 yo man in horley... I was 13, probably not the best idea in hindsight but he seemed harmless enough, he was called radar and lived near gatwick.

Funny enough i bounced this thread partly because of the app i found and partly because i spoke to a taxi driver this morning who remembered me by my handle (madrat) even after 15 years!

 

[Shooting Star]

This thread reminds me of Karl Pilkington on the Ricky Gervais podcasts. Genius.

 

[Max Paper]

1-4 was the main contact channel. 1-9 was the truckers channel, but a lot of people used that instead of 1-4 because 1-4 got taken over by idiots, especially in the early days.

I used to use CB in the mid 80s, we had a CB club with a couple of rigs after school. Got great reception from the attic rooms at Cardinal Newman.

In the early 1990's a load of us idiots used to be on channel 14 all the time, I was Chucky, there was Eggie, Penguin, Goldfish, Shadow, Earth, Beanie, Freak and others from the time Matty shadow warrior I remember because he was going mental that my mate was called Shadow! People used to go f***ing nuts at us for being on C14 which of course made us do it more and more, I had a metal dustbin turned upside down in my bedroom with a magnetic ariel stuck to it, could pick up most of brighton from Patcham where I was, quality days! My old man had them in his cars, vans and his shop for years, my mum even had one in her 1983 MG Metro Turbo!

 

[Barry Izbak]

........... burgess hill.......

err PAINT CITY you mean good buddy

 

[Seagull Steve]

I used to love CB radio back in the day. My handle was Tornado. I used to love going out on the treasure hunts and also I can't remember what it was called, but you used to have a car hiding, and two or three others chasing and finding the hiding car.

 

[fork me]

I used to love CB radio back in the day. My handle was Tornado. I used to love going out on the treasure hunts and also I can't remember what it was called, but you used to have a car hiding, and two or three others chasing and finding the hiding car.

Nice sig!

 

[franks brother]

Foxhount

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[Herr Tubthumper]

I bought one of the FM radios when they were legalised. Skyhawk was my handle. I got bored with it after a year though, and the range was poor from Newhaven.

My friend was called Omelette. He liked omelettes you see.