Walkie talkies or cb's?

TheVengefulElephant said:

It ok to go buy a pint?

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No! buy half a pint then spend the rest of the night mine sweeping.

We nearly always carry both a handheld CB and a pair of PMR's.

The handheld CB has proven very usefull, for spotting and in a couple of recovery situations to syncronise snatches or winching and stuff.
Also when a newbie comes along. They can borrow it and earwig on all the banter or advice of the Trail blazer.

I carry the PMR's cos they was a bargain 20quid at Aldi (what's that compared to a tank of doozel?) they usually stay off but have been good at the pay and plays if you wanna jump out and shoot some video or stuff!

The bottom line is communication & banter, makes a good days laning better!

battenberg said:

I carry the PMR's cos they was a bargain 20quid at Aldi (what's that compared to a tank of doozel?)

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where do you fill up for 20 squid??

redhand said:

No yer dunt need a licence for CB any numpty can have one. we're talking about Amateur Radio or ham radio as it's sometimes called. A CB is limit to 27MHZ and 4Watts a radio Ham can use huge sections of the whole bandwidth. and upto 100Watts. But you need a licence to use ham radio.

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When I used to live in the UK a CB had to have a licence, has that been stopped now?

Here you have to take your CB's reciept of purchase along with the manufacturers tech spec ect and request permission to have a CB in your car. The permission cost £75.00 GBP!

If you have a CB at home no permission is required.

Like most things in Spain if it's really important for example: having to have your motorcycle lights on after dark but never bothering then thats OK however, turn up at the MOT station without the towbar that was there at the last MOT and your car will FAIL!

Go figure!

regards

Dave

Blurry 'ell. Nope, no licence needed over here.

Where abouts are you?

regards

Dave

Inglaterra jaja

I am sure you had to have a permit or such like for a CB in the UK, mind you I am going back a few years (vision of old man sitting in an armchair in a residential home)........................the kids today don't know their born..........I remember back in the good ol days.....when I was in the war....

regards

Dave

Dave 2000 said:

I am sure you had to have a permit or such like for a CB in the UK, mind you I am going back a few years

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Yeah, you used to, but no bugger got one so they did away with them, same with the old Dog licences.

Maybe we should try the same with the Road Fund Licence?

Im thinking of fitting the midland gb1 to the disco my thourghts being 1 i can use my pmr 446 hand held to comuicate with sombody outside 2 our scput group has a set of pmr446 so i can use tge truck as a base station for activitys and lastly im going to bet that with this new geniration of base station 446 and also the uptake of tge pro handheld models that 446 will overtake cb as the main system in use i have an enquiry in with midland as althoe the mag mount is hard wired to the unit tge antena itself does unscrew so i have asked if there are longer models i could fit will pass on if i here anythibg back

Hi all an update got the radio all fitted works great will be using it in September for our group sponsors walk so will have full use after that so far very impressed very much got the radio bug so have also bought a handheld uhf/vhf radio and I'm going to get my ham licence think I will also fit cb when funds allow