11m conditions

Oh John dont start me off about all the cars I've had then sold them and see what there worth now LOL 
 I know about R.S Turbos Escorts, I had a series 1 seeing what there fetching now is amazing.

I switched on yesterday and T5 was buzzing with French stations booming in but all speaking in French, bit of Corsica Spain was also about ,and someone on the WhatsApp group I'm on was saying there getting a bit of Brazil .

The S1 Turbo was a great car, Martin. I ended up with a S2, loved that car. I think the S1 was the better looking motor. The black S1 that Princess Diana had is still kicking around. That particular motor was be worth a fortune.

Have you seen the price of RS500s recently, Martin?

Sounds like some good conditions. Especially with Brazil coming in.

Yeah RS500's mate take another mortgage out on the house sell the Mrs to a white slaver and might get enough for a damaged repairable lol, my mate has just got himself a 2door mk4/5 Cortina with a full race 24 valve Cosworth lump in it , cant wait to get that on the road. the princess Diana S1 this is no bull5hit mate I've driven it ,I use to work at a RS dealership in Islington in the parts dept and plus I was in the RS owners club anyway for some reason it turned up at our dealership to be fully serviced and then stored away in our secure underground garages which was in a place away from the main dealership well when it got serviced and a valet 
my manager said you've got a S1 will you take this to our secure garages but be careful its special,  so I yes didnt know who's it was just thought a rare black S1 ,when I got back and he pulled me to one side and told me I couldn't believe it .
Oh radio is zzzzzz today by the way.

That is amazing, Martin. I have seen pictures on the Internet of her S1, never in the metal so to speak. Do you know where it went after the dealer at Islington? I almost bought a black RS1600i back in the day. I could not get insurance on it, as it was lefthand drive. An army lad stationed in Germany had owned it and was selling it back here.

No I never saw it again John after it went in to our secure garages, I just went back to my parts dept, I dont know even if it was still owned by her at that time, I knew the owner of the Ford dealership where I worked use to look after special cars for people now and then it was in good company in that garage though co also in there was the said dealership owners cars ,a rally prepared RS500 , Mk2 RS2000 custom in black , and a Lotus Cortina mk1,

I apologise for John and I diverting away from the main subject of "Radio Conditions" but we have known each other for a long time on this forum and once we talk about cars theres no stopping us LOL.

He certainly had some tasty motors, Martin. A local garage in Dove Holes, called Stella Motors had a genuine RS200  in road spec, tucked away, about ten years ago. It was on the original tyres and covered in dust. 

My apologies for going off topic too, as Martin says, once we get nattering, there is no stopping us.

Radio is still zzzzz cant be bothered with it TBH 
Yeah my guvnor at the dealership had a nice collection,  I just got a little 2004 mini cooper s supercharged all been uprated for about 200bhp ain't dyno it yet though aint had it long only about a week ,but it's well quick it just dont stop pulling through the gears, I brought to replace my Abarth 500 I had which got stolen from outside my house last month.

The Cooper S is a great car, Martin. Bad luck with the Fiat, there are some skanks about. I would like to build a Civic turbo using an eg4 or a ek9 shell from the mid 90s/early 00s

I ,PMed you John

Got it, Martin.

I thought it was better to that just in case someone said  we are going off topic too much lol

T5 was lively -ish again today mid afternoon,but it was the same old same old  French stations calling in French  language only ,plus a little bit of  Spain but nothing too exciting conditions lasted about an hour and half then started to drop out

I had my radio on this afternoon and heard nowt , maybe thats because my antenna switch was on my vhf antenna .

LOL ,done that a few time ,I normally switch on the radio that's not even got a antenna plugged in and sit there in silence

saltire wrote:

I had my radio on this afternoon and heard nowt , maybe thats because my antenna switch was on my vhf antenna .

Oooops.

It is so dead over here in Finland on 555, but local contacts been very good on ssb, around 80 km last evening to a trucker on parked up for the night, we were both on a Mc kinley , basic radio power.

Glenn

56CT004

glenn dog wrote:

It is so dead over here in Finland on 555, but local contacts been very good on ssb, around 80 km last evening to a trucker on parked up for the night, we were both on a Mc kinley , basic radio power.

Glenn

56CT004

That is a nice contact, Glenn.

Have conditions been any good today?

They was pretty dead as usual for me John

Got to admit Martin, despite now having several bands at my disposal.....I still check 27Mhz CB first!

Old habits die hard

Pagan wrote:

Firetrap wrote:

The band seems to be having a late "post summer" wake up.


Anyone else think so?

It seems to be "waking up" where I am....Spain, France, Holland and Austria all coming through on T5 at the moment.

Sorry to have to ask a basic question. What is "T5"? I'm beginning again after 40 years absence and have forgotten a lot.

27.555MHz T5

As Alan said (see post above) T5 stands for "Triple five"......27.555 Mhz USB which is the freeband calling channel / frequency.

Hello Max,

T5 (short for triple five) is the international calling frequency for the cb/11m band. The actual frequency is 27.555 and the mode of transmission is always USB (upper sideband). On old school multiband radios it would have been ch12 on high-band. 

If you want an idea of how to use it, the best way is to tune in and have a listen to other stations. There will also be videos on YouTube that you can watch to give you a good idea.

Just one vital point to mention. Here in Britain, it is still illegal to transmit on that frequency....... But the authorities turn a blind eye to it and it is a long time since somebody had equipment confiscated or was fined for using it. It is something that you need to be aware of, when using it.

73s John.

John123 wrote:

Hello Max,

T5 (short for triple five) is the international calling frequency for the cb/11m band. The actual frequency is 27.555 and the mode of transmission is always USB (upper sideband). On old school multiband radios it would have been ch12 on high-band. 

If you want an idea of how to use it, the best way is to tune in and have a listen to other stations. There will also be videos on YouTube that you can watch to give you a good idea.

Just one vital point to mention. Here in Britain, it is still illegal to transmit on that frequency....... But the authorities turn a blind eye to it and it is a long time since somebody had equipment confiscated or was fined for using it. It is something that you need to be aware of, when using it.

73s John.

Thanks for that info, John, Alan and Pagan. It's illegal here in Rep of Ireland too - 27.500 to 28.000 is designated for paging and public address (mostly religious services). It won't do any harm to have a listen (for the moment ). My FT-7B can cover 26. 900 to 30.000 continuously in 4 sections.