Duggie

CB radio in the car? I just got a Team ME-4 80 channel CB radio for the fabia (and for fun) and was wondering if any of you folks had one? Quite a few people out there using them! (my call sign is Felix).

-Duggie.

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smstext

i did see a pretty new car in abingdon a couple of days ago with a cb. cant remember what happened to mine, but then i use the more technically advance 8 channel ones that dont need a licence

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auroan

Didn't think you needed a licence at all for CB, thought that was ham radio.

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Digital Dwarf has one on his Fabia when he came up for the camping trip, but alas I don't have one.

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tfboy

I have a couple, but none fitted in the car.
I wanted to bring them along to the brisky Prague road trip, but when testing them, as soon as you press TX on one of them, the other (receiver) just goes mad.

When we bought them, we "hacked" them so they could use 200 channels and not just the standard 40 - standard was C-1 to C-40, and we added bands A, B, D, E on top.

I have a horrible feeling that someone tried it on a completely different channel, say A1 without having a TOS tuning whotsitdoodaah done, and the badly tuned standard aerial has fried the unit

Are there any good CB repairers out there where I could get a quote and then decide if they're worth fixing?

The model is a Euro CB Pro 101. Found it on ebay italy: EURO CB PRO 101 = INTEK SY-101 PORTATILE 40 CH AM - FM su eBay.it CB, Articoli per Radioamatori, Audio, TV, Elettronica

edit: better link: CB Portable Euro CB Pro 101 (très peu utilisé) en vente sur eBay.fr (fin le 27-Juil-08 15:21:22 Paris)

The really neat thing was the battery pack was removable and then you slotted in a thin car adaptor kit which then powered it via 12v ciggy and then had a separate aerial lead so you could plug it into a roof aerial. It was then just the size of a normal CB mic

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Duggie

Mines just a cheapy little one with 80 channels in total but good fun with mates who also have them, neat little compact unit now hidden in the car... the massive ariel gives it away though.
-Duggie

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smstext

yes i think i saw one of your crew in abingdon tonight near maccie d. you dont clip the magnet straight to the roof do you? you do have something to cushion it between the mag and the roof like a cloth or something?

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Duggie

Was it a red golf? That's one of ours in Abingdon. I have a rubber pad that goes between the magnet and the paintwork.
-Duggie.

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rigsby

Got one in my fun.. Mainly used when going in convoy with other members, as its the easiest way of keeping contact

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Lummox

Wonder how the law views them in the car with the rules on not talking on mobiles etc.

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bengie

seems a craze for young'uns nowadays.

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apd007

Do you still need a license for them?

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the law now doesn't only say about using a phone but also doing or using anything that causes a distraction can get you in trouble so even changing a radio station at the wrong time can get you nicked

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Babs

I believe it specifically excludes radios

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bengie

but as already said babs you could be done for doing anything that creates a distraction which could be taling to a passenger, changing radio stations, eating an apple, adjusting your seat etc etc

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Duggie

You don't need a licence and talking on 2-way radios is completely exempt from the law.

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digitaldwarf

its not a CB i have in my car but a ham radio

CB radio no longer need a license to operate the
ham radio does .it was a city and guilds exam when got licensed but that has changed now and there is a three stage license that is a lot easier for most people (try learning morse code when you are dyslexic it took me 3 years )
as for operating from a car the rules have changed quite a lot in the last 20ish years
at first you could yous a fist mic
then it was baned and you had to use a hands free kit (pre mobile phone)
the they changed the law about phones and the hands free radio kit became illegal ????
at the same time they realised that every police officer in a car could not use there radio to get in touch with there hq . as a result of that you are alowed to use a two way radio in a car as long as it has a push to talk (ptt) and release to listen switch and not a push to talk and push to listen switch



apart from that its good fun driving a porqupine in a hi vis vest at 65mph on the motorway and watching the bmw drivers slow down

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Octygone

I have still got a couple of the old "legal" FM 40 channel ones (I think they are illegal now) but not in the car at the moment

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smstext

they just chuck a driving without due care and attention charge at ya instead.

just checked they banished the licence december 06, but said as its the MOD's spectrum you will have to expect interference.

get a ppr radio they have about same range these days and dont have the big give away aerial thats what most people i know use

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Tomo1971

Just to through a spanner in the works the police cant use their hand held radios in the car neither.

Any device that is capable (even not been used at the time) of making calls like a telephone cannot be used.

As police radios are TETRA and have the facility to make one to one phone calls (like a mobile) they fall foul of the law. They should only use the in car set.

Steve

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