Flat
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Tyre's Original Home PageHi and welcome to my home page, hope you don't find it too boring
As you have guessed
by now my handle is Flat Tyre or Tire if you're in America, My personal
name is Duncan and my QTH is 5 miles north of the town of Oldham which
is just outside Manchester in the north-west of England .And before you
say it I am not a Manchester United fan, I support Oldham Athletic a far
better team, you'll find a link to them on the bottom of this page .
I Have been a breaker
since the age of thirteen ,that is 1978, back in the good old illegal A.M.
days ,it was fun , everyone was looking over their shoulder at the same
time that's what made it a laugh.And then like everything else the good
old British government went and spoiled our enjoyment by "legalising",
it thanks a lot Maggie! at least we are safe in the knowledge that it wasn't
the only thing you screwed up.
Any way there we were 2nd November 1981, 27 Megs was legal,no more being busted,busby knocking at your door,hiding your rig every time you heard a car outside,but there was a catch F.M. ,what was this? no A.M. no interference for your neighbours tv.no being able to talk to our "Good Buddies" in the States (thank god for sideband).
To cut a long story
short I moved to F.M.( about three years later)and it was packed with breakers
,more people than you could shake a stick at,every channel jammed with
people trying to talk to their buddies and getting keyed over .But it was
brilliant ,there where hundreds of thousands of CB's all over Britain,
in houses, cars, on motorikes, boats, some people even had them in
the "bog" but you used to avoid Breakers on channel 19 who were shouting
for a copy accompanied by a straining noise .But on the whole it was good
clean fun and never harmed anyone.
Into the Nineties
,Midnight boards for an extra few channels,and then along came Mid Band
40 extra channels given to us by our wonderful government,but hang on,this
was the old A.M. band,the band we had all campaigned and protested for
Ten years earlier, they gave it us back but it was on F.M. and practically
unusable, unless of course, you lived next door to the breaker you where
talking to, or you were an incurable insomniac and liked to stay up till
3am. when if you were lucky the interference from all the foreign stations
on A.M. would have faded.But the were here 80 channel legal rigs, and still
everybody keyed up on channel 19
Now here we are at
the start of a new Millenium,the future,who knows what will happen?We still
have 80 channels but no sibeband,we now have family radio 446 Mhz, tiny
little radios, a three kilometre range (no DX'ing there then) but it may
take off. By the way does anyone know what happened to 934Mhz?
Before I go if you have anything you want to Contact me about, share your experiences on the CB,or any good stories about old breakers
Then Please E-Mail Me By Clicking On This Link
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