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Loved my old Rotel 240, but it seems to have stopped working. It never seemed to pick up interference from my electric windows or wipers or anything, unlike some of the newer sets.

Aberdeen - pretty much dead most of the time. Sometimes some truck drivers on but most of the time nothing but static.

Hi Teflon/Sidewinder, I stay in Danestone but work in Altens (Oh my god, how on earth did I manage to organise that so badly???)

I'm normally seen in a silver disco with a thorobred Z27 on top. Or occasionally sat outside the house with the 9 foot tank whip fitted to it.

commuting is normaly ...

New Midland 248 has both, so best of both worlds. I have found in the morning some eastern europeans on EU ch19, and there's a German guy (can't hear the other side of the conversation) normally on ch31 most evenings.

There are some odd channels on it that don't appear in the handbook though - It ...

Hi All,

Sorry if this posts twice - my laptop power failed just as I hit post last time.

I have a springer antenna which I cannot get a decent SWR reading on. The best I have so far is (IIRC) 1:2.8 on UK.CH40 and 1:3.5 on UK.CH1.

I thought my whole setup must be a bit wonky, so checked with the ...

They are indeed EU only - marked up 'PR27GB' and 'CEPT NL'

Even the user manual lists all the channels as being from 26.965MHz to 27.405MHz.

Not many going about I suspect and I now have a fair few. They'll not go to waste though.

Hi all,

New to the forum, but used to use CB a fair bit back in the early 90's, got a few rigs from work that were being thrown out and have rekindled my interest in radio - to the point where as soon as I have some free time I am going to go for my amateur licence(s) as well - it seems to be a ...