The Big Net 2010 - 29 years of legal CB Radio

Heads up and plenty of warning for this years 'Big Net' - Celebrating 29 years of legal CB radio in the UK.

Will be on the air, sadly too late in PM after sunset here but will listen and see if anythig does come along

I will have a listen as well.

simon007 wrote:
Will be on the air, sadly too late in PM after sunset here but will listen and see if anythig does come along

It does look to have been planned by someone who does not understand the band. Intelligent planning would surely have been to organise it on the nearest weekend & at a time that works for both more people & the band conditions.

daxi wrote:

simon007 wrote:
Will be on the air, sadly too late in PM after sunset here but will listen and see if anythig does come along

It does look to have been planned by someone who does not understand the band. Intelligent planning would surely have been to organise it on the nearest weekend & at a time that works for both more people & the band conditions.

Did you contact the organiser and suggest this ?

I don't use CB & did not know that this event existed until I saw the new post this morning.
I got into radio via Short Wave Listening, Echo Charlie & 48 meter (etc) Broadcasting. So I was operating before CB came along. I did try it in the late 70's after someone on EC suggesting giving it a go, but I found it too quiet as it's range is so limited other than during openings. So although I have used CB a few times, mainly as legal broadcast site comm's or as vehicle to vehicle type comm's, I have never used CB as a hobby in or of it's self, I have just used it as a usable tool.
Edited to add. I was only making an observation, I have no desire to take part in this event, it just looks like the same old thinking that created a campaign for 27Mhz CB at the top of a Sun cycle rather than a well thought out demand for a lower HF band &/ or a VHF system, say around 50 - 70 MHz. The old UHF CB system was good, but few CB'ers used it as it required more knowledge to use it effectively, so it was lost, but it was head & shoulders above what we now have on 446MHz.

daxi wrote:I don't use CB & did not know that this event existed until I saw the new post this morning.
I got into radio via Short Wave Listening, Echo Charlie & 48 meter (etc) Broadcasting. So I was operating before CB came along. I did try it in the late 70's after someone on EC suggesting giving it a go, but I found it too quiet as it's range is so limited other than during openings. So although I have used CB a few times, mainly as legal broadcast site comm's or as vehicle to vehicle type comm's, I have never used CB as a hobby in or of it's self, I have just used it as a usable tool.
Edited to add. I was only making an observation, I have no desire to take part in this event, it just looks like the same old thinking that created a campaign for 27Mhz CB at the top of a Sun cycle rather than a well thought out demand for a lower HF band &/ or a VHF system, say around 50 - 70 MHz. The old UHF CB system was good, but few CB'ers used it as it required more knowledge to use it effectively, so it was lost, but it was head & shoulders above what we now have on 446MHz.

Oh go on, come and join us, you might like it

27Mhz ops are not all that bad. Come lower your standards and join us. You may learn something!!!

I have no problem with CB or it's operators & never have. I just currently have more amateur bandspace available to me than I ever bother to use & still I spend most of my radio time as an SWL .
I did get to know one of my best mates (now sadly SK) via CB, he was a CB user & I recognised the voice when SWL'ing the old AM CB frequencies & sent a reception report of that to his broadcast station. We then discovered that we lived 150 - 200 yards apart, that we had both been raided, but we did not until then know each others existence.
I do wish I had spent some time & effort on the old UHF (934 MHz was it?) band as my few excursions onto there were good. I also played with a CTE CB to 6.6 MHz transverter using a Nato something or other that a friend lent to me, it was rubbish, but I would but one tomorrow if I could for old times sake.
I currently have several old legal CB's laying around, as well as 2 Ham Internationals, one is 10 meter converted the other is not, plus I have a Belcom LS120 that I think is capable of 26 - 30MHz operation. So I have the kit here, I just like listening.