PS Only kidding about firing ya Plugwash me Beano pal

RR

Twas a GREAT era for me 2 Beano and Eagle comics there wre wonderful and the Bash Street Gand were the best.


This is why I am now an electrician and not the brain surgeon I was originally destined to be!!

RR

The Beano was the one for me.  Dandy was ok but Beano was the dogs hudders

I used to have the Sun & the Comet until they suddenly stopped publishing part way through stories.
I never did find out if Jetace Logan saved the Earth.
I read the Eagle but it was my dads comic. He used to cut the exploded drawings out of the middle & let me read Luck of the Legion in the half of the page that was left. The idiot. Didn't he know how much a full set of The Eagle from day 1 would be worth. I never threw a single comic away but carefully stacked them in order. I later found out that my mum used to pull a handfull from the bottom to throw away regularly. I had the full set of Eagle Annuals too but they disappeared from here when one of my sons was mid teens & wanted some money. I never did find out how much he got for my beloved Eagles.

Thats how it nowadays aint it Andrew? A piece of wood with a few nails banged into it - "There you are Ma'am your new Consumer Unit is ready" LOL

In the downstairs bog here I have a framed copy of Beano Number 1.

Wireless World was a great mag, I used to be an unofficial Ham (otherwise known as a 'Pirate'). 200 watts on home brewed 80 metres transmitter using 807 valves. The Post Office, as it then was, tried to catch me out with the triple detection system but my old receiver (RCA AR33) used to pick up their IF and I shut down and quickly they never did catch me and the locals never did discover who was messing up their TV pictures (RFI).

Ray Wabbit

Creeps! wud not have stopped me buggering up ya TV Andrew lol

I had a soddin great big Rhombus attenae system, could not miss the damn thing, but they did.

Again congrats for hitting the 500 mark (I am sure ya just copy and paste the same postings)

Ray Wabbit

(trying to catch you up)

lol, we are using under 2% of system reasources right now!

ss

My house was more like Jodrel Bank with all its CB antennas. Up to 6 at a time plus others for the car.
The next door neighbour complained to me about every TV problem. One night at 12.30 when ITV was off the air. He wouldn't accept that we all had the same problem but blamed me for blacking out every TV for 2 miles radius. He never said a thing when ITV appologised for the loss of picture. His wife accused me of messing their picture up with the CB while I was mowing the lawn. He didn't realise there was a teenager across the road with an antenna in the loft & a 25watt linear 2 guys the other side of him, one with a CB & the other with an AM AA transceiver that interferred every time he drove past. The police & fire service do the same yet it was always me who got blamed. I did everything by the book to help him including giving him the address & number of the radio interferance people. It turned out he had corrosion in the antenna & coax plus was using a preamp to increase the gain. He was doing it to himself.
At least that 400 watt linear warms the house up in winter.

I used to get the Beano, Dandy and the Valiant when I was a kid. Loved Korky the cat, Bash street kids, and Lord snooty. Desperate Dan was good too with his cow pie. Only really liked Captain Hurrican Higgins in the Valiant though. Them were the days when men were men boys would be boys and sheep were afraid. Never did have a CB rig but had a model aeroplane shot down by one