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has anyone seen an eyeball badge like i used too have in the eighties with a square badge and red flashing eyes and it said you have been eyeballed bye and your handle in ticker tape ,weird everyone had one but i cant find one ?
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I've seen them, but never had one, I've got the normal type but would never dare wear it in this day and age :)
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Me and a mate got ourselves eyeball badges jus to wind up the Werthers brigade at rallies... works everytime
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Heard of CB handle QSL cards but not eyeball badges
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Yea I have one of those eyeball badges that have a flashing pair of eye leds.LOL.Bought it about 1980/1 time.I found it in the junk draw only a couple of weeks ago.
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Allan666 wrote:Yea I have one of those eyeball badges that have a flashing pair of eye leds.LOL.Bought it about 1980/1 time.I found it in the junk draw only a couple of weeks ago.
sell me it mate i love them haha :D
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I had a rectangular one with painted-on eyes. You used one of those Dymo printing machines to sort of emboss your CB handle onto and it just stuck in place. It must have been 1982 I reckon. It certainly didn't have flashing lights though.
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I have a few dymo label printers ready to print out handles, just need a supply of badges, I remember going into our local "goody shop" eyeball badges were a pound each in around 1980
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The Collector wrote:I had a rectangular one with painted-on eyes. You used one of those Dymo printing machines to sort of emboss your CB handle onto and it just stuck in place. It must have been 1982 I reckon. It certainly didn't have flashing lights though.
well mine must have been special lol ,you did have print you handle with those dyno tape things though :thumbup:
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https://goo.gl/images/jLKmxX

Link to the type I had.

I think they were available in 3 or 4 colours.
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I don't want to sell it lol.Memories.I also have one of those badges that was doing the Ham rallies about 5 to 10 Years ago.Its oblong and you can put any message on it (by tapping the buttons on the rear of it) like Handle, Ham Call sine etc ,Then the message just scroll across its screen...
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There's a red one like I mentioned above on ebay at the mo. I think mine was white thinking about it.
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I want one to put my ham callsign on
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I bought my eyeball badge from Knights Electron but forgot to take it off my coat when i stuck it in the washer.It looks a bit worn, lol. I have since progressed to specially made metal ones at 99p each.
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the ones u can see on my coat are made of metal and made to my specification. I like showing them off in the pub,lol
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[quote="k40"]I want one to put my ham callsign on
eyeball2.jpg[/quott
thats the one but he eyes flashed red and we all used to go the roller rinks in Warrington and ALTRINGHAM LOL :D
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