cb radio

[skyrider]

right here's one for all you technophobes are the present cb's digital or analogue, i was just wondering if they had switched over to digital seeing as all other radios have, taxi, ambulance , police etc 

[dynax]

Still analogue i believe

[Bender]

You can buy digital 2 way radios but I think they need a licence, cb has stuck with old fashionedness for backwards compatibility.

[Tiggie]

I used to have one when I was around 15 or so. I apologise now for anyone who kept getting wound up by an annoying kid approx 25 years ago!! 

[manxie49]

Analogue, as Bender said, you can buy digital ones but you need to be licensed, I use one when I'm Paragliding.  There's different types of digital radio as well, making it even more confusing, such as TETRA.

Edited November 23, 2020 by manxie49
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[skyrider]

when i was marshalling we used tetra radios 

[manxie49]

1 hour ago, skyrider said:

when i was marshalling we used tetra radios 

Used by a lot of agencies including emergency services,  allegedly they can’t be scanned

[Bender]

That's the thing with digital, it's easy to secure, nothing is impossible to scan just depends who wants it and how bad 

[onesea]

11 minutes ago, Bender said:

That's the thing with digital, it's easy to secure, nothing is impossible to scan just depends who wants it and how bad 

And that's how internet security started...

https://www.plytix.com/blog/how-internet-porn-paved-the-way-for-amazon-and-ecommerce

[Bender]

Sex sells  

[onesea]

7 minutes ago, Bender said:

Sex sells  

As recall and it was some time ago. It was back when even as mech eng student. It was possible to send an email from anyone to any one..

 I also knew how to log in remotely through a university web server in Brazil that did not monitor links clicked in emails. Some links where total unknowns and not acceptable,

I think it was more that having internet knowledge hacking porn became a hobby, So the tech developed.

Now I am confused by a forum update

[Bender]

7 minutes ago, onesea said:

As recall and it was some time ago. It was back when even as mech eng student. It was possible to send an email from anyone to any one..

 I also knew how to log in remotely through a university web server in Brazil that did not monitor links clicked in emails. Some links where total unknowns and not acceptable,

I think it was more that having internet knowledge hacking porn became a hobby, So the tech developed.

Now I am confused by a forum update

Yup, I was around at the dawn of civilization, dial in bb, I was proficient with telnet, built God knows how many pc's, now I'm confused if it doesn't start up  

[Six30]

10 hours ago, manxie49 said:

Used by a lot of agencies including emergency services,  allegedly they can’t be scanned

i had a police scanner, was good listening to what was going on locally... then they changed it to what it is now

[Bender]

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

i had a police scanner, was good listening to what was going on locally... then they changed it to what it is now

In 1978 ish we acquired a police radio it came in the boot of a car dad bought, it was a bit quiet round ours and neither me or my brother had the bottle to transmit anything.

[Six30]

35 minutes ago, Bender said:

In 1978 ish we acquired a police radio it came in the boot of a car dad bought, it was a bit quiet round ours and neither me or my brother had the bottle to transmit anything.

Could of had some fun with that 

[manxie49]

3 hours ago, Six30 said:

i had a police scanner, was good listening to what was going on locally... then they changed it to what it is now

I remember when I was a kid listening to the Police on a scanner, you could only hear one side of the conversation as I recall ..... TETRA is the big thing now, down side is it supposedly fries your brain! 

[Guest Swagman]

20 minutes ago, manxie49 said:

I remember when I was a kid listening to the Police on a scanner, you could only hear one side of the conversation as I recall ..... TETRA is the big thing now, down side is it supposedly fries your brain! 

Well that won’t affect me then.

[TimR]

1 hour ago, manxie49 said:

I remember when I was a kid listening to the Police on a scanner, you could only hear one side of the conversation as I recall ..... TETRA is the big thing now, down side is it supposedly fries your brain! 

Used to be able to listen in to local force on the old vhf home radios and even early on on fm radio used to be about 97.mhz area if i remember correctly 

[skyrider]

i tried my old cb yesterday and it was really dead no one nearby is using one so no point in going any further so i just put it back in the cupboard for a few more years im not spending any money on it 

[Bender]

Cq dx, Cq dx

 

We had a very illegal lafayete with usb lsb ssb and a few more in between, now and then you could get ham radio with skipping, was way more exciting talking very briefly to folk in another country than the bellends in the next village.

[Stu]

We used to use CB when off roading in 4x4's 

A mate is a bit of a geek and had all sort of gear! he would often talk to people in other countries!