10 4 Good Buddy

Swish, you got me going now, look what I found in the cupboard, connected her up, not much happening out there,

Might have to send her in for a tune up

Gilly

...Great work there Gilly,if you had that squelch right down you might have got 'Burt Reynolds' on the other end...'Eastbound & Down 18 Wheels Roll'in'...

Did the twin aerials make any difference to the signal strength ?
Geoffb I've been floating around. saw your blue White at Goulburn last April.

Cruising at dollar in a line of rigs headed into Sydney about 3am in 1980's on the new freeway section after Mittagong. Serious discussion on the CB about stupidity of the 90 limit for trucks at the time. Then a booming
voice came over " if youse blokes don't stop talking on them things you'll all be back to 90. Radio silence!
The old tin power box on the pole outside the secondhand farm machinery place at Bookham was often on the
air " speed camera at Bookham mate " all the way up from Albury. " yair mate, thanks, all clear your way. "
Was still there a few years back, had a laugh going along the bypass. Catch ya, Paul.

...c'mon fellas .. 'fess up to your old call sign from back in the day ....mine was Captain Seaweed !!

P.S .. like me, i'm afraid my old Silver Star might look like crinkled up tinfoil these days !

...we're not finished yet ya buggers ......c'mon Swish, what was your CB callsign ol' mate

...maybe a few more might 'fess up to their younger days on the old "good buddy"

Defective "good buddy" your coming loud and clear it's a big 10.4 but UHF came in the seventys, they might be all to old to remember
Colin

...there was only a couple of years in it, but those very early days were full of fun and "eyeballs" : :

...it all stemmed from the American truckers (and the Overdrive magazines), but there was a short period when we were all "good buddies" and the truckies life wasn't so bloody precious to preclude a copy between the "big wheels" and the "little wheels"....Jeeez, but that was ages ago... :'(

Infective
M8
me nevr evr had a CB
we had our our 2 way radio frequency from the mid 60'z
many thort me twaz stuk up
coz eye wouldn't Ch@ wiff m

LOL

but they kept on yakin n someone would reply

But wiff no CB me nevr did answer m

LOL
dun need no CB
az had all the names anyway

Hay U
or
Where F did U get a F lie sense

LOL

can remmeber a few drivers after work twould go up top of Mt Dandenong n ch@ to canadian drivers .... all2 do with eye on izfere n bounce BS
cya
10:4 Ovr n out

Copy Defective and others, sets were single side band or SSB, somehow ended up with 40 channels. Handle was
Lizard when on general mid 70's, slow and all over the road probably. Later years not much radio procedure was
observed, just a quick call up and yak especially going opposite way before losing contact.
Late 70's to early 90's operated horse floats interstate - bit of a nuisance to some other drivers as care needed
through bends and sections of road with bad camber. Southbound down Cullerin range one afternoon, bagged up
by yellow pan with black letters - "get that sh--carter moving". "Alright for you blokes, but my freight has to stand
up all the way home". "Never thought of that". "Hang on mate, will back off & jump between the
white posts down on the straight to let you go". "Thanks mate". Down at Jugiong he's pulled up at the roadhouse.
Northbound on the New England about 2 am, passed by a jap ute before a long downhill run. He's on the box,
"Blue light looking at you down the bottom". Didn't reply, sure enough rozzer parked behind the armco on right.
Pulls me over, "Don't you know it's illegal to talk on them things". "Don't talk on it, just listen". "Who was telling
everyone I was here"? "Dunno, few little ones on the road". He wears that, but then wants to look at everything.
All ok so eventually under way again.
Bit of good fun at times, happy memories. Paul