Spiderbob
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A question for you Frankiesays, when you were known as 50 footer and piloting a river bus, was it a Waveney River Tours boat?. I ask because in this small world this six degrees of seperation seems to be true, I did maintence work on their boats in the 60's and 70's and fitted out the Waveney Princess. Did you ever get to meet Mad Crane or Snowdrop, if not I have photos if you want to put a face to a voice.
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PoisoN
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Im still on the radio here in great yarmouth,
My handles PoisoN been into radio since i was 13 years old. Although im origionally from south yorkshire ive lived here 11 years, My fathers from great yarmouth. Should be able to get people in lowestoft just fine. Although ive got a new antenna going up in a few weeks, just got mine layed in the loft at the moment. We could start radio off again theres a few of us here. Im also mobile i have a CB in the car.
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I used to be known as the Falcon. Spent many hours between 1991 and 1996 on various rigs; had a handheld, a mobile rig with transformer, and had an unusual one with all controls built into a handset style. It all died out when mobile phones became popular. I last went on in 2003, but all I got were farmers talking about the crops they were planting in their tractors!
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Hi Spiderbob, I've replied once to your post but it seems to have disappeared into cyberspace so I'll reply again and hope they don't both appear together. No, I used to pilot the riverbus that ran from Broadland Chalets at the other end of the Broad next to Knight's Creek before it was sold to Putford Enterprises. I used to go a lot further than Waveney River Tours and made weekly visits to Reedham, Beccles and Surlingham/Rockland Broads.
The boat was made of steel so I used to get out well on the old DV27 mag mount and could usuallu get LT from Beccles and up as far as Reedham. I live over 300 miles away now but Mad Crane is still my best mate. I spoke to snowdrop and her daughter on occasions but can't recall if I met either of them, I think they had spendlove's farm in Carlton?
I have fond memories of taking regularly to Winchester, Purdy and especially Pony tail. I remember hearing your handle being called on channel 14 regularly but don't recall speaking to you. If you worked at SLP you'll probably have known my uncle - Alan Bagge - the guy with one arm.
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PoisoN
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I happen to think radio became less used due to the internet, Its more interactive you can have conversation by speech or text email even live video, Compared to a cb radio its alot more reliable especially if your talking to somone across the world.
There are areas such as were im from (Rotherham) were the cb radio is still very much alive and kicking, compared to yarmouth which was a total shock for me when i first setup and switch on here, Its just dead! apart from the occasional tractor driver and trucker. I still love radio though just wish more people were on. As new generations come about radio will eventually be dead unfortunatly, unless we get people into it again but it just isnt that attractive compared to a pc. Theres no hassle with antennas etc.
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The end of the 70's and early 80's were the most popular times for CB as I recall. the young kids and weirdos keying the mic all day and night spoiled it as there weren't enough channels to go around and get away from them. Most of us had the old US 20 channel Am sets to start with but ended up going legal in the end on FM. I don't think I knew anybody who had a licence though - that would be taking the fun out of it. many people had the old Dv27 mounted on a dustbin lid in the loft or on the bin in the back garden but as people got braver the GP's and stardusters started to go up. Suffolk Aerials used to be one of the best places for bits which was run by El Sid.
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PoisoN
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I started on the radio scene in 1989 i was 13 im 34 now. So i never really got to know the AM days.
It will end with me too cos my kids wont use cb radios not with todays current technology who knows what will be out when they are older?
Even the goverment is killing radio off with digital.
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120 channel midland AM side band with 80w boots on par with the now #hams# but it was fun and then came down to FM ? legal next door with numpty's and 'roger beep mics' end of the line for me have the doctored rig and twig but never set it up
May do one day to see what is on the air?
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Spiderbob
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to go back to a question on the original post, does anyone remember Silver Knight's quiz, I have had a look through my photos and found this pic. If I remember right it was a qiiz prize presentation night at The Victoria Hotel. In the photo John has just been presented with something to help him through the long nights stuck at the mic. Sorry about the picture but I only had a point and press 110 at the time.
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