I TRIED CB RADIO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS AND THIS HAPPENED!!!

Gonna get mine set up 😊

Are the channels at different frequencies than in the US???!!!

In the US Channel 19 is 27.185, not where you had yours set for 19. (???)

Was going to get me ham licence just recently but could hardly find anyone on so bought superstar3900 setup and yes here we are back in 1979 nice vid dude

Yes in the USA channel 19 is 27.185 mhz
Do you guys play outside of CB like pirate radio. If so shoot some videos of LSB and USB playing I would love that

Dead in warwickshire. Hands up if you had a roger bleep..

here in the US 27.185 is channel 19

Ch14 was the calling channel in the 80s

I always thought it was 14 for a copy. Perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me after 40 years. A very interesting exercise and thanks for the info. Well done. Keep getting out there.😊

Your hot man good production very nice i like very much

What brand was that radio?

Probably a fair amount of preppers on there now. Me and a mate had a cb in his house with a 20odd foot ariel and a 30w (?) Booster. when we were early teens, then at about 18ish we had magmounts on a few cars and would drive off into local countryside to remote car parks to smoke joints chatting on the way and trying to find randoms to chat with. This would have been about 94 ish. One nine for a copy. Breaker on the side slide n grease yer bacon. Good Times.

Still have my midland Alan 78 from 1994 has LCD readout like that

I had a GP27 ariel and i used to struggle to get further than ten miles away.
But i lived in a bit of a valley.
I also had an AM rig. Could never get out on it but could hear Canadians and I'm in the UK.

I still work on 27.555 ! And it's still a madhouse there 😀❤

l had a Reliant robin so the only way l could get my Arial to work was to put window alarm tape round one window then a glass mount Avanti Arial near to the tape my best copys 80 miles from Skegness to Bolsover n Derbyshire and two truckers in northern France off of the sea front at Skegness

these 891 ok for beginer from cb to ham cheers andy

I believe your right Andy CB is making a comeback ready for when the systems goes down.

What about using a AM CB like the good old days

Great few vids, subd, got myself and wifey very interested in reliving our teenagehood 😊

What happened to 1 4 for a copy. I thought it was channel 14

I was into CB radio in the early 80's made a lot of friends-even though i was a kd at the time. Im told a lot of 4x4 people use it now.

Can you show how to put a portable set up like this into the car with the portable battery Ect

Loved my uniden 200 sedelta echo master plus desk Mike and skylab antenna 📡 😀

Superb research … cheers for that matey ..nostalgia at its best..

One solution for the mag mount
would be to have another powerful magneti on the inside under the roof perhaps,
But it may damage your interior roof lining.

Good grief this takes me back 40 years lol . Used to be a member of the 34 breakers in Honiton, Devon . Do you still need a licence for cb's these days?

First went on cb in 1982 would love to get into it again..

try holding a thin metal plate up to the interior below the spot where the antenna is located on the top and see if the magnet grabs it.

What a load of pointless nonsense!

Put a sheet of metal against the headliner of the car and it will hold against antenna outside

Here in lower Michigan, about all I hear is the Mexican skip when it's rolling, and the usual lids on the Superbowl channels!!!

Wouldnt surprise me if my stolen radios are being abused on there, 2 spotless jumbos, concorde3 multimode3, hygain V's, plus a few others and probably my bv2001.
Then a total plank in Braintree who looked after my moonraker 4 and lost most of it.
Both cases are lessons learned never to get so called mates to look after stuff.

hehe this takes me back so far to when I was younger, this was massive when I were a kid, listening to people, trying to talk to them, it was fun lol

I see that the UK still uses these silly FM frequencies...

27.185 is channel 19

!USE A MAGNET IN YOUR CAR! To keep your antenna from falling. ( Might work ) Big one. Or strap some lock down straps across the top of the car .

Still as shit as it was then !! I have a mobile phone works much better

In the U.S. channel 19 is 27.185.

Just done the same, channel 19 is absolutely chaos nobody moves of it and talks bollocks for Hours!
Channels 17 quiet

Ive been on CB since 1978 ... Never moved to HAM.
Around here... Its ch19 or nothing and plain English.
When the DXing starts and the wannabe ham speak starts. I turn off.
If I must use a 'callsign' LMAO at the thought. I use Bravo Oscar One ten X-ray

CB is relaxing to talk on. No worries about some person reciting regs to you like in ham radio. Cb does have it's baddies but it's still fun.

CB as a „gateway drug“ for amateur radio?

1 9 a rig check, 1 9 a rig check this is Alpha 19 can I have a 1089, over.

I stated on CB Radio and progressed to Amateur Radio.
2m is the Ham Radio version of CB and it is all, but dead. Which is a real shame.
I really hop CB Radio makes a come back

Good memories, it was channel 19 breakers channel for am and 14 for 27meg FM.

I actually got my ham license in 1968 but by 1970 CB was exploding in popularity and didn't get back to ham radio until almost the 1980's.

Your SWR would most likely be very high and maybe untenable because the Antenna is not Grounded. In your case with an Aluminium Roof you should try a No Ground Plane CB Antennas.

Hiya can I ask what CB you are using?
Many thanks

what is the rating of the batteries? is it the one used for radio controlled car?

Hey Andy that is one cool radio what brand of radio is that? İ am gonna get me one!!