CB'ing and Ham radio in the 21st Century

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by swoop101

I still have this in my loft

That's an old AM set

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by swoop101

I still have this in my loft

That might could just-possibly be the one I had. It was so long ago I have forgotten for certain, but it looks familiar

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

That's an old AM set

If it has the chip I'm thinking of, with an eprom board you could get UK40FM on it :0

[Kymmy]

UK40 yes, but not FM.. The UK40 boards were designed to go into the CEPT mid-band radios from the continent as they jumpered onto the PLL hence changing the band/channels and in no way could change the method of modulation from AM to FM

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

That might could just-possibly be the one I had. It was so long ago I have forgotten for certain, but it looks familiar

Hmmm. Maybe not then. I'm pretty-sure I was 'legal'!

[Kymmy]

Weird though how we tend to use older radios instead of the modern all singing/all dancing radios..

I use a Yaesu FT80C (commercial version of the FT747 and is actually a HF radio) which I just got an FM board for, it does AM/CW/SSB/FM 100W on all bands. It is though considered an early 90's relic by a lot of people.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

UK40 yes, but not FM..

I'm sure I fitted the odd FM board to AM Uniden rigs back in the day

[Kymmy]

Yes but it wasn't the UK40 board.. The FM boards were rare and didn't effect the recieved frequency.. It meant that the FM boards were common on the continent but not here..

It seemed to be a merry go round in that EU was converting AM sets, we were converting EU sets and the americans didn't realy care

Getting back to the topic of the increased sun spot activity last time it happened you could actually hear the truckers going up/down the east coast of the states on Mid-band AM

[Russ]

So you'd be able to convert it to UK40FM with the use of 2 separate boards then?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Roughly about that time I was using Uniden 2830's (also known as the President Lincoln)
Freq readout (26-30Mhz) and 50W variable right out of the back, fed that into a 27ft 3/4 wave Sirio2012 (sigma 4 copy)

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With the sunspot activity peaking these next few years I think we may get a resurgence..

It though does make me laugh when I see CB and HAM users on the internet using these virtual radios to talk to people.. to me it's not the idea about talking but the whole aspect about fighting the conditions, other users and idiots to get a decent conversations across

I had the same unit

[Gary L]

I wasn't really into CB'ing. if I did have a go it was just one nine, one nine a roger. I'd get my roger, and I'd say thanks break.

never did see it going anywhere, so didn't bother.

[Kymmy]

Not sure Russ as the UK40 board was for a particular PLL I think the one used in the Cybernet chassis where as the FM board is more generic but it would depend very much on the radio..

The FM boards are still sold (£15)

[data0002]

i did use the cb band's untill they moved them in line with the rest of the world. but now days use th 70cm ham bands

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by data0002

i did use the cb band's untill they moved them in line with the rest of the world. but now days use th 70cm ham bands

Not sure there's any difference is there

[adzii_nufc]

I have a Cobra 148 GTL-DX, it was my grandfathers. I have no idea how to use it but we have a full set of gear here. Got a huge antenna on the roof. Do people still buy this kind of stuff?