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Call Sign : 26-CT-5019 Posts : 15 Times Thanked : 0 Join date : 2023-11-13 QTH or Location : Merseyside Equipment Used : Getting a President Randy 3 this week Age : 64
Subject: Antennas from yesteryear Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:37 pm
I always remember using a dv27 on a biscuit tin in the attic way back in the early 80s. Worked a treat almost got the SWR down to 1 to 1.
Happy days.
Does anyone else have interesting stories from the pioneering days of CB.
Neil
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 5268 Times Thanked : 339 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:07 pm
The old DV27 on a biscuit tin worked wonders when the breakers you were talking to were up to at least two or more streets away! (Seemed everyone had a CB in '81/82!)
Takes a bit more nowadays with breakers further apart unless there's a good bit of 'skip' in.
Me? AM/SSB with some Bremi 'bottles' gave a lot of fun back in 19-clickety-click.
I do miss eyeball/meet-ups though.
Great posting there Neil and I hope others have similar happy tales.
(Think all us old farts had a biscuit tin antenna at one time....hard to replicate with modern plastic biscuits pots!)
All the best, Victor
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peewee norfolk Senior contributor
Call Sign : 26-CT-4879 / M7PCA Posts : 116 Times Thanked : 5 Join date : 2023-07-16 QTH or Location : North Walsham, JO02QU Equipment Used : binatone 5*,alinco dx10 135,sirio4000,silver rod,G5RV,beofeng 17 pro max, X30 duel 2m/70cm,full size G5RV, TS120v,soon ft991a !!!!! Age : 56
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:20 pm
dv27 on an old mini, with amstrad 901, then upgrade to mighty magnum home base up @ 40foot
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skyrider Major contributor
Call Sign : 26-CT-4654 Posts : 347 Times Thanked : 2 Join date : 2022-09-25 QTH or Location : Preston, Lancs. Equipment Used : UNIDEN 100, midland alan 78 plus multi + mag mount , silver rod Age : 63
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:51 pm
in the eighties i had an elctronica special which i used with my ham international multimode 2 and it is still the best ant i have owned
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Les-1 10 + Year member
Call Sign : 26CT739 / 26GB739 Posts : 57 Times Thanked : 5 Join date : 2019-07-16 QTH or Location : Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Equipment Used : Superstar 3900n, Magnum S9, Cobra 148 GTL DX, Superstar 360 FM, Nato 2000, Lafayette 1200, Hygain V, Albrecht AE2990AFS, Cobra uk29 LTD ST, York jcb 863, York jcb 861, Uniden Uniace 200, Midland 4001, RM KLV550, RM KL400, Zetagi B300P, Sirio GainMaster, T2LT, 7' Firestik, Atron99, 18' Silver rod, Sadelta Echo Master plus, Astatic echomax 2000, Moonraker power mic Age : 58
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:20 pm
back in 81 had a antenna like a Cherokee half breed on a mag mount on biscuit tin, then upgraded to an antenna called a whiskey something (was like a dv27 on three legs) with a york jcb 861
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Razz229 Major contributor
Call Sign : 26 CT 2290 & 26 CI 2290 Posts : 692 Times Thanked : 28 Join date : 2019-07-01 QTH or Location : Kent Equipment Used : On 11m a Anytone 6666, Solarcon A99 vertical antenna or a Sirio 4000. On PMR a TYT TH-9800, a 1/4 wave GPA, homemade mag mount & sometimes a 8 element beam. Age : 56
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:27 pm
Back in nineteen eighty something
I took a Maxcom 4E, 3-5 amp power supply, a cheap as chips SWR metre and a Grey DV27 on a mag mount with the biscuit tin, to school for a 10 minute show and tell about my hobby.
45 minutes later the lesson came to and end and I had sold the complete kit, just swapped out the DV 27 for a home base Boomerang style antenna.
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SangueG Major contributor
Call Sign : 26-CT-3971 / 2E0LMI Posts : 1031 Times Thanked : 62 Join date : 2021-01-30 QTH or Location : Cirencester, Gloucestershire Equipment Used : Little radios, home-made antennas
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:42 pm
Razz229 wrote:
Back in nineteen eighty something
I took a Maxcom 4E, 3-5 amp power supply, a cheap as chips SWR metre and a Grey DV27 on a mag mount with the biscuit tin, to school for a 10 minute show and tell about my hobby.
45 minutes later the lesson came to and end and I had sold the complete kit, just swapped out the DV 27 for a home base Boomerang style antenna.
Love it. I had a Maxcom 4E for a while, and it's sister AM version Vice President Roy. Basic rigs but had a whole lot of fun with them.
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Alan Pilot Major contributor
Call Sign : 163-CT-220...MW7TTA Posts : 2446 Times Thanked : 66 Join date : 2019-11-19 QTH or Location : Anglesey North Wales Equipment Used : Yaesu FT-991A,,Yaesu FTDX-10,,Icom ic-7300,,Anytone AT-D878UV PLUS",,LINCOLN II+. Age : 150
Subject: Re: Antennas from yesteryear Sat Nov 18, 2023 5:52 am
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Subject: Antennas from yesteryear 
(Seemed everyone had a CB in '81/82!)
