mart360

Ok people,

how many of you were breakers back in the early 80's???

what was your handle, and why??

and what rigs were you running


to start the ball rolling


Handle
Oddbod (cos i was an undertaker)

rig

havard 420m
1/2 wave dipole indoors
1/4 wave twig mobile

come back



mart

NotoriousREV

Handle: Edd The Duck (I was only 15!)

Rig: can't remember, but I had a power mike with echo chamber. One of my older mates had a Capri with massive burner that interfered with TV's all over Warrington

J4CKO

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I am so glad the Internet came along !

Guinness

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Pac man
ham International Viking
18ft silver rod sticking well above my house

Loved it.............Alan...

beemerboy

Mighty Mouse (while at school)
cant remember the rig, but had mag mount (on foil cross in bedroom, as ground plane) and swr meter etc...

also bought a book from the states with all the jargon and stuff in it, including 10 codes.

roger rog.

BB

BlackScoobyWRX

White Knight coz I had a white Cortina Mk5 (was even doing mods then thinking about it !!).
Rig - a Harrier that had been tweaked up and for added fun I added a PA system to the car - fookin' hilarious

Huxley

"Cooter" and many more wind up ones as well

Biscuit Town as well

As for kit where do you want me to start!!!

First Rig Brought over from the states in 1978 a state of the art Sharp 21Ch twist numbered dial on the front

Then Sharp 40ch,Midland 140m 80ch,Midland "Blue looking one" 80ch,Comtron Nato 80ch,Cobra 148gtldx those were all AM sets before CB27/81

Then went slightly legal Colt 295,Harrier CBX,Rotel RVC240,then went downhill again Another 148,Hygain 5 President Grant,Ham Int Jumbo 2,Ham Int concord, then went on to the Big Stuff Yeasu Ft757gx2 0-30 MHz cont RX-TX all the way through with all the kit to go with that as well Up to 1k tx power Just sold that on eBay but not the amp

Other bits like echo mikes K40 speech Pro Turners Jm+2U and Burners From 25 watts up to 800watts mobile Catswiskers Cat call system with all our friends in our group

Oh and the best bits were the roger bleeps I had at one stage had 7 different bleeps in a box that would fire one after another what a pain in the **** that was


Twigs Mobile Dv27.Firestix.DX27.Moonraker,K40 and about 15 others in the loft

Base Twigs I've tried them all nearly from a 1/4 wave dipole, Sigma 4,3 element beams to 36ft square moonraker 4 cubical quad that used to worry the neighbours

And the bad bit I still have 90% of the above stored away and before you ask no None of it's for sale! As I collect stuff like that


Huxley 10 10

FLAT ERIC

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Catweazle cos I was old & wizened.What does that make me now?

Too many rigs & twigs to remember when mobile.But used to run a silver rod on top of a dirty great scaffold pole on the roof for my home base.When the skip was right you could get out for miles.

Had some good times & met some good folks at the "eyeballs".I helped run our local Channel 9 group along with Smokey One (the local bill).

Mark