Connunications update following Polls:

[NorthernRaider]

When we drove to Alston from here last weekend to visit the NG railway, we put the CB in the van plugged into a 1.5 meter long mag mount, Going UP Weardale I heard 4 different voices but did not hail any of them, coming back down via Teessdale we heard nothing in the upper dale but by the time we passed Barnard Castle heading towards Bishop Auckland there was a modest amount of occasional chatter, I estimated one broadcaster to be a mini bus company, I heard youngsters hailing each other, and I'm pretty sure most other traffic was farmers.