CB Radios

[Bobster]

Is anyone using one in a Westy pop top and, if so, how have you fixed your aerial ?

 

[*Sam*]

My bus came with a CB aerial in the roof between the luggage rack bars, so I used that.


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[Bobster]

Could be a good (in fact the only) spot. Is that drilled or do you use a mag mount (in which case how do you run the cable?)

 

[*Sam*]

It is drilled, I would have found it hard to come to terms with doing it had a kind American not already done.
I haven't used the radio much as the airwaves are quiet these days and I live in village in a slight valley so how well it works I don't know yet.


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[montypsx]

Dint realise these are still going I've got three in the garage and a mag mount I mite have to get it out and SWR it in if they are making a come back

 

[*Sam*]

Defo worth doing I recon, AM is the "now" thing but I wanted a period radio so have FM for the hanger one plus figured most VW people would have a vintage FM in their vehicles


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[ozziedog]

Defo worth doing I recon, AM is the "now" thing but I wanted a period radio so have FM for the hanger one plus figured most VW people would have a vintage FM in their vehicles


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A.M. Is the 'now' thing I'm go smacked but suppose I shouldn't be, things are in and out of fashion over time. I can remember my first A.M. set in the late seventies it was a straight forty as we called them it had an analogue display which was rather posh for a round plastic knob with numbers on that clicked over a bulb. Funnily enough it was called a Bristol and I happen to live in Bristol, I can even remember when the first digital displays came out and that seemed to be magic back then. I had a huge one in my van, it was a built in one from a US car of some description, it had an A.M. And F.M. Radio and an eight track player and a twenty three channel CB all as an in dash built in type set. Apparently all the CBs started as twenty three channels. As with most things you could get extras, better ariels or twigs as they were known to get you further, power mikes, amplifiers also known as burners then forty channels, then eighty then One hundred and twenty then sidebands and it just went on and on. Eventually the Brits caught on and decided to do their own thing and went F.M. On frequencies that no one else used so that on its own mostly killed the CB scene. I'm sure I've got one of each down the garage somewhere and I keep saying I'm gonna dig them out. :mrgreen:

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,, job number 326. And counting. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Graham L]

AM sets are illegal and have been for a long time, it has to be an FM40 set to be legally used in the UK and Europe

 

[*Sam*]

SSB (side band) and AM was legalised in 2014


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom
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[Graham L]

SSB (side band) and AM was legalised in 2014


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom
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But according to that article its only for newly licensed sets not legacy AM sets which is what most of the old ones AM sets obviously where, might be worth trying an AM set as never had great success with FM sets tbh

 

[*Sam*]

That's correct hence my comment of me going for FM to allow the using of a period set.

Yes worth trying I would say, from a. Few forums I have read it seems that the regular use sets have popped off to AM and SSB leaving the "jammers" on FM with their illegal over powered units.



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[Guest]

two point quick release CB aerial

on an LB but you get the idea

 

[Bobster]

Cheers Johnny, I'll give them a Google as I'm wondering if I could clamp it to the Westy roof rack bars rather than drilling into the fibre glass. I'm assuming that the other wire from the aerial then goes to a ground point somewhere ?

 

[rlepecha]

You should be able to get a mount for the westy roof bars.. That's the sort of thing a lot of people use on landys and stuff. I've got a mag mount on my tin top so can't advise any further than that though..

I've got an old 40ch FM in my bus, there's quite a lot of talk on the radios in Yorkshire. Its apparently one of the CB 'hubs' .. Theres a few YouTube videos somewhere of a bloke going round to peoples houses up here to look at their rigs.. Mike I think his name is, but could be wrong!

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[Bobster]

You should be able to get a mount for the westy roof bars.. That's the sort of thing a lot of people use on landys and stuff. I've got a mag mount on my tin top so can't advise any further than that though..

I don't think that would work though would it as the roof bars are fixed to the fibreglass roof rather than the metal roof itself ?

 

[ozziedog]

As you get older it gets harder and harder to keep up. Now the way I see it is it started in the US of A with 23 channels on A.M. then they went to the 40channels with their straight forty set up, then eighty then one twenty, keep up everyone :lol: Then one twenty with upper and lower sideband then Mr Yaseu and his mates popped in with the 5KC shift because when the UK came into with their F.M. they were on completely different frequencies to the original straight 40 somewhere in the region of channel eighty something on a one twenty but they were 5KC (half a channel) out because the UK government likes to be different.
Now we have a legalised A.M. set with single side band (ssb) in the UK, but I have no idea what frequencies they are rolling on, is it the same as the original ? about half way down the eleven metres ? If so then I may be able to dig out a very old A.M. which is way way way before the F.M. sets came out and play breaker break again just like in the old days. I didn`t realise the F.M. had got a bit naughty but I`m guessing it was on the cards.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, A.K.A. The Wizard Of Oz !!! :lol: :roll: :lol:

 

[ozziedog]

You should be able to get a mount for the westy roof bars.. That's the sort of thing a lot of people use on landys and stuff. I've got a mag mount on my tin top so can't advise any further than that though..

I don't think that would work though would it as the roof bars are fixed to the fibreglass roof rather than the metal roof itself ?

I reckon you might be right there, but it would really work a lot better if all the bars were wired together to form a mesh style ground plane instead of relying on one or two bars, it would have to be a decent connection so as not to affect the swr, also if you could connect the bars with an earth style wire and also to the steel of the roof panel, that should give a much higher yield.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,Fibreglass ain`t much help at all :mrgreen: