I WHAT DO )QU THINK? Right theo. In thls masazlne you'll lind baU.... they can. and we want 10 prove IL Editor: Chris Drake. Peatures Editor: Peter around a hundred pagaz packed with Lat us blow your lhoughla about CB. Dodson. Art Direction: Prank BneakL Inlormation written by UII, aepacially lor Deelga: Simon Stafford. Adverlisement you. the readar. As hoppened In the United Statee. lho "new" CB hobby boomad. and thao faD Manqer: Linda Bevie ... Assiste.t Ad Nowhore (apart lrom the queetionz and suddaniy. al the c ..... element drifted Manager: Hazel Falconer. Production: Kim anawers pagee) do we provide yoo with tho away and 'ierioul breakara bopD to reaUae Bel ... Edilorial contrlbulors: David Lazell. opportunity to tell as whot you think about how useful and convenient CB could be. John Nelson. Brian Cherlg. Pbolography: tho CB scene. I mean. Whot do you tblnk Tony Large. Andy Herrls, Devid Brown. about PM compared witb AM? About this It Is probable thel CB In Britain Is .uIng Andy Grehom. Illuslratlonz: Hunt Emerson. Ihrough lhol pho .. al the momenL I baIleve SImOll Bialey. Gordon Bell. Front cover magazine; about CB magazlnee in general? thai tha market is going throush a quick­ And 80 on. pbotosrapby: Tony Knuff. The Publisber: change - a sort of bIccooqb. But the Shldey Winney. Published by Goodhead We've been heerlng about how the CB expaoled ..... to 1II8JIOII8I," Iwl'Ollfl word Publloatlnnz Ltd. 27 Murdock Rood. bubble hos bursL Did It go bang without lhol - we I'e8Ily meant 10 8IIy mall1re, BI088lar. Oxoo. England. Telephone: 08692 anybody hearing It? Or did It burst at aU? breaken hod not yel baPJl8D8d. 44517. Typaaetting by Goodbead Preas Ltd. CB ~ri and rig manufacturers are ~reUy thouIb. WlI balIeve thel CB hoI Launton Road, Bicester. Oxon. Origlnation talklna about keeping stocks low. and 8 sreal 'ulUre. It', just that tha youngste .. end printing by Wiltshlre Ltd. Bristol. "\HadlDs carafuUy' hecausa the CB market have been ove ....posed to it. and tha Distributed by COMAG Ltd. Tavlstock • dying Ollila dIpoIae. oidaters be...:t been expoaed 0lI0UIh to Road. Weet Drayton. Middleeex . WlfiF40 you - the re8ders - think the adveD\aga8 oIl1d1l11Ul1l1nt aMIde of @ Goodbeed PubUcaUOII8 Ltd. 1982 .... !tellfs:: hea ever bothered to communloalinn. ..' jag. tile •• Pe.bape QJey baUeve Write I.. The Bditor, CB82, 27 Murdock the averaae _I think. CB8Z Road. Blcaater. Ox .... 3 CB to start the professionals talking. \8 ====Radiomobile== -~,;;:~ = Goodwood Works, North Circular Road, London NW2 7)5. Telephone: 01-452 3333. 4 CONTENTS INFO TECH CB NEW BREAKERI 6 Questions. questions, 42 67 OUf 20-page special section questions. What else? Dh Yes, MAGAZINES for new breakers. If you are there are answers too. Lots of Can British CB magazines starting in CB, then this is 8 them, in fact. learn the lessons and survive? must for you. It's got Judging by the American everything - how to use 8 market, probably not. Or at rig, what these specifications CB UK OK? least most of them. Here, meaD, the lingo. all the codes. 11 David Lezell judges the CB and a little advice on how not OR NOT? magazines, and points to a to get into trouble using your Has the CB bubble burst? Has worrying comparison with rig.. the market died 8 death? other countries. Some of the traders seem to think so. An up to date report MIKE FRIGHT on the state of the CB market. FITTING 72 Do you suffer from 47 microphone fright? If you do, IDEAS then you'll know what we CEPT - WHAT Installing your own citizens' mean, If you don't good luck to 16 band radio needn't be you, 10-er 4-um Goocl B-b- DOES IT MEAN? difficult, as long as you follow buddy. This is the future of European a few simple rules. And if you CB. A compatible system for don't follow these ideas and all. tips for easy fitting, and blow SITUATION up your rig, then you must be 74 really simple! COMEDY DESIGN YOUR Peter Dodson seems to get 18 himself into trouble every time OWN OSL CARDS he uses his rig. Take our They are the things that can advice, and don't follow his, give you a good reputation. or 50 l~ERNMENT'S otherwise, Don't let people think you're a fink, Design VIEW CEE BEE yourself a good QSL card. CB82's Chris Drake and Brian 78 Lots of examples, so you can Charig hold an exclusive JEEBIES decide on a card. interview with Timothy CB-speak. We know that CB Raison, Minister of State at lingo isn't used so much the Home Office. Interesting nowadays, but once you've got insight into what the it off pat (Pat?) you can really 2 2 ~o~~~!~~% ~!~~!ica goverrunent thinks of CB, and confuse the opposition. Know of one of those excellent what we mean? Radiomobile rigs? Good huh? how they view the future. LOUD AND SLICK ANSWERS 24 OFF THE Have you ever said to yourself: KINGS ROAD 55 CLEAR 82 I wish I'd said that! Well, here OK, you're not allowed to fit are a few slick answers to CB82 on one of the more those comments you're bound amplifiers, etc. But then you enterprising private CB to get over the airwaves. Like dealers - Chelsea CB Centre. might not need to anyway. First thing is to get your rig this: My son wants a cowboy Tony Hart. the race engine outfit for Christmas. Answer: and antenna into perfect tuner, started it all. Give him BL. Heh heh, working order. And that means following Peter DISH Dodson's instructions.. THE CODES 26 WATCHERS 84 10 codes, Q codes, 13 codes, pronunciation, Morse code. Oh The ultimate in CB? Erect a LONG it's all here, dish in your back garden and 58 talk to people in distant lands. DISTANCE Wa tch them too, on your CB 90 DO YOU WANT telly. Peter Dodson wrote the INFORMATION words this time, Give me Memphis, Tennessee TO BE A ... No? Oh well. Long distance CB talk isn't as MONITOR? 30 YOU DON'T difficult as you might imagine. The THAMES monitoring David Lazell tells you why. It's service has been in existence LIKE HAM? for a long time now and is one If you thought amateur radio a thing for the future, that's of the most successful was all diagrams and static, for sure. emergency rescue monitoring think again. John Nelson says networks around. Here Sean that it can be interesting, Barry-Weske takes us on a worthwhile, useful, and 64 HISTORY OF guided tour round the probably most of all, good fun. CB organisation. Nobody has actually RIGS LATELY documented the history of CB 35 CB82's review of rigs on the in this country properly, so we market in Britain today. Not thought we'd have a go. Peter 9 4 E~!!!rive in naarly so much a long boring list of Dodson went out and found every city and town in Britain. specifications, more a chatty dates. facts and figures, put Listed here are some of them, round-up of what's available. them all together and came up plus the address to which to how much things cost, and with this diary of events. write (or phone) if you want to who sells them. Interesting reading, it is. get in touch with one of them. 5 YOU WRITE TO THE EDITOR I want to use a mobile antenna on a base station. I am an FM breaker burning 12 candles. Grown-ups Wballs the best way o[ mounUIl8 it inside or get aU cross with me and my friends when we use outside Ibe hou.e? our CBs. We are entitled to use CB like they are, so MARTIAN MUMBLER. CHELTENHAM. why can·t they treat us like other adult breakers? BEANO. FULHAM. The important thing to remember about mobUe Of course you are just as entitled to use CB as antennae is that they must have a ground plane - adults. But having said that. I might be permitted to a larse metal mass. like a motor car! It is possible, make a few observations and perhaps the odd rot Instance to clamp a gutter mount to 6 Mini boot constructive criticism. Firstly, junior breakers tend lid and put it in the loft. or to attach it to 6 gas fire to call up speCific handles rather than go "tan four nu.e. Alternatively. a garage up.and~under door in a copy", They will repeat their call over and over t4a horizontal position can serve as an excellent again with little time between calls for others to use ground plane. Always SWR a new antenna system the contact channel. What is more, they will go on before using..:::.....-----. calling when it is obvious that the breaker they are As a breaker I am a bit puzzled about how to use looking for is not on channel. Yes you have every my squelch control. What is the correct method? right to the CB channels - but so have we. THE ADMIRAL WYMANS BROOK. There are two schools of thought about s~uelch My family has a farm in Gloucestershire and we control USB. Hard-line AM breakers maintain that are thinking of installing a CB rig in the house with the control should be left "wide-open" to pick up a hand·held set for use on the tractor or in the the weak signals. Manufacturers of PM equipment, fields.