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Thespaceman
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Username: Thespaceman
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:44 pm: | 
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Anyone still around from back in the '60s? I was living in the Bronx back then, running my Comstat 25A, and we had a great group of CBers in the Pelham Parkway area! Larry - KBI 8902, Ricky - KBI 7059, Mitch - KKD 9884, Mel - KKD 9007, Bob - KMD 0686, Allen - KMD 3343, Ron - KMD 0686, Tony the pizza man - who had a rig in the back of his pizza store on Williamsbridge Road, Silvano, Sal and Little Steve, from Fordham Road, Arlette, YL Debby, Night Owl Jeff, Star Man, Gunner, Sammy from Alerton Ave., etc. etc. etc.! Where are they all now? |
Press_man
Intermediate Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 311
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2011 - 7:09 am: |
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Al,
Didn't quite make the '60s, but got started in '73. My CB call was KAEA 7733. Looks like there were quite a few guys on the radio in the NY area in the '60s
73
Pressman/KC4ZWM
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Thespaceman
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Username: Thespaceman
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2011 - 9:51 pm: |
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Yep, there were hundreds on the air in NYC all through the '60s and '70s! When I got my first CB tube rig, all I had to do was throw a wire out the window, and I was able to talk to like 20 people in a 15 block radius! Kids were picking up radios at GEM electronics and Lafayette Radio on Fordham Road, and either putting up roof antennas or mounting 9 foot whips out the window! The conversations would go on all day, and up until the wee hours of the morning. Those were the days!  |
Tech833
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Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2086
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 12:49 pm: |
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Oh, boy. I remember the CB back then. It was WAY different (much better) than it is now.
I was mostly a shortwave listener in those days, too young to apply for a license anyway, but listened a lot. My first 'rig' was one of the crystal controlled CB walkie-talkies. It was the size of a Cobra 29, but was only 100mW and ran on batteries. When I was about 8 years old, installed it on my bicycle and was "mobile". Even with that wimpy setup, could talk to several people. They always thought I was a girl due to the voice.
Eventually, was able to talk my parents into applying for a CB license. By the time the 70's came around, my parents had a CB in their van, and I used to sit out in the driveway all night on that thing. It was truly a good time to be a kid and on the radio.
When I was in my last year of high school, I finally saved enough to buy my first truck. It wasn't long before I had a 23 channel Sears Roadtalker and a K40 installed. Back in the day, that was a real potent mobile!
Even after earning a ham ticket, I still had the CB in the truck for a while. Everyone was on CB in those days! It was awesome.
Fast forward to now... Only own a tube-type CB rig that I restored many years ago, but it sits cold and unused. The language, behavior, and personality of the 11m band is unpalatable. I really wish it would go back to the way it was, I miss it a lot. And it would be fun to put this old tube rig on the air again.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 930
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 5:49 am: |
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Now Tech 833 you have left us hanging. What kind of good old tube radio do you have? Any chance it is an old Lafayette Comstat 25B like I had?
Keith in Atlanta
CEF150 |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2090
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 2:26 pm: |
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Well, I certainly don't want to leave you hanging!
Actually, now that you mention it, I own 2 CB radios, both tube-type. Both fully restored.
The first one is the Pearce Simpson Guardian 23. It still has its original mounting bracket, stock mic, etc.
The second rig (the one I forgot about) is a 40 channel version of the Teaberry Model T. It has a matching black and chrome D-104 mic. I don't know what happened to the stock mic it had.
The Guardian 23 has an amazing receiver in it. Ultra sensitive and really selective. Alas, anything I can receive on it now in my area is not fit for this classy tube receiver to copy.
I hope things change someday so I can put one of these on the air again, it would be fun!
I heard a while ago about an area of the country where a bunch of vintage CB fans created a net where they only use tube type radios to participate. That would be awesome.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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392
Intermediate Member
Username: 392
Post Number: 103
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 26, 2011 - 9:32 am: |
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KTP-9837 here! Yes those were the days. The whole town was connected by radio! I was on last night, it's dead here in north texas. I drove around Dallas and listened in on 28. In an area of 7 million, no one on the air!
Perhaps it will take off again. I am teaching the radio to both of my kids. I can do that now because no one is on the air, thus most of the trash talk is gone also, at least here in Texas. I drove around the other night talking to my son, base to mobile, for mor than an hour, no one joined us. The local shop no longer sells radios, just makes repairs and he is about to close down.
I to miss the good ole days of radio! 392 |
Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 932
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 5:20 am: |
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Hey 392. I was there over the weekend the week before xmas. What channel do you guys monitor most of the time and I will try to hook up when I am out that way on business in January.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
392
Intermediate Member
Username: 392
Post Number: 105
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 1:17 pm: |
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Keith, we usually monitor 28, there are a few still around. Shoot me a PM before hand and I'll make it a point to be on the air, that is if I am not out of town!
Tim |
Unit23
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Username: Unit23
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 9:17 am: |
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Yep, those were the good days of C.B. My dad got a license for me in 1959 (a notary public had to sign the license applications then). My first call sign was 6Q1208 followed by: Kdb8729 KJQ0826 & KBEJ3322. I see the downward spiral of C.B. starting when the newscasters on tv said that if you had a cb in your vehicle you could avoid speeding tickets by listening to truckers. I helped many truckers avoid the scales by telling them their locations. C.B. as we knew it will never make a comeback even though I wish that it would. I met my wife of 45 years (and still counting) due to cb. I have had cb's in homes,cars,boats and airplanes. I miss the old ragchews and competitions between locals on who had the strongest signals. If you hear me (Unit23 from central S.C. ; Please give me a shout. Catch you down the coax. |
Tech833
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Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2132
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 11:36 am: |
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PLEASE- Tell us about how you met your wife via CB. That sounds interesting!
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Tech237
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Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1537
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 - 8:31 am: |
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Funny, I met mine via Ham Radio, when seh was in Baker City Oregon, and I in Brisbane Australia.
Tech237
N7AUS
God made me an athiest, who are you to question his wisdom?
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Unit23
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Username: Unit23
Post Number: 5
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 - 2:56 pm: |
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Tech 883
I met my wife's Dad on C.B. He was in need of help with his antenna and I went to help him. His daughter wasn't home the first three times that I visited him. I went to school with his son and I drove the school bus that he rode. He never mentioned that he had a sister. She was 4 years younger than we were. One day, her father asked if I would come over for some fresh homemade apple pie. She was home this time and I couldn't keep my eyes off of her, even though I thought that she was my friend's girlfriend. The following Monday, on the way to school, I asked if she was his girlfriend. He told me that she was his sister and my visits became more frequent. Four months later we were married. My Father-in-lay invited me for pie and I wound up with his Daughter. That's how it happened. |
Nlmadog
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Username: Nlmadog
Post Number: 70
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 6:58 am: |
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KBU 7968 The Blue Light Station
Stacked Moonrakers,Regency Imperial then a Browning Mark II. I think the DA Phamton had alot to do with my ability to talk skip . Had a blast long before the truckers thought about CB. We had coffee breaks every weekend. |
Tech833
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Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2152
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:12 am: |
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Unit 23's story wins.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Unit23
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Username: Unit23
Post Number: 7
Registered: 2-2012
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 9:34 pm: |
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Don't forget the old CB JAMBOREES where CBers from states around would congregate to meet the people they talked to ( Locals). There were always vendors, swapshops and prizes given away. Almost everyone you saw there, you talked to regularly. |
Press_man
Advanced Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 535
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2012 - 8:14 am: |
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In the 70s we had Jamborees from the Melbourne area to Stuart, then they kinda got absorbed into the Ham Fests. We did have coffee breaks and those were just as much fun. Over coffee and breakfast you met the operators you talked to on a regular basis and those you hit once in a while. A resturant was picked that offered easy driving for all. If you had something you wanted to sell, just take it with you because someone else would likely take it home with them. Got my first shortwave that way.
Pressman/KC4ZWM
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Tank
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Username: Tank
Post Number: 3
Registered: 8-2012
| | Posted on Friday, August 17, 2012 - 5:55 am: |
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I started in CB in 1972 when a friend of the family gave me a Cobra 89 and a RadioShack antenna. My dad helped me setup the antenna on the roof. A 30' push-up pole and 50' of rg-8.
I met a bunch of great ppl on ch. 22, wound up staying active there for about 20 years. Went to a lot of "coffee" breaks even though I don't like coffee, drank iced tea instead.
I think I was 18 when I got my own license, kxj-5129.
Those were good times. |
Kashie
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Username: Kashie
Post Number: 5
Registered: 5-2012
| | Posted on Friday, August 31, 2012 - 10:11 pm: |
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My first was a white face johnson in 1965, KSH 9468, put it in a 1962 Studebaker, I think there were only 4 of us with radios in Lafollette TN at that time. |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 2339
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2012 - 5:10 pm: |
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I got started cbing in 1973 at the age of 12...
Those were the days for sure as tons of people were talking on the air-waves... :-) |
Thunderbolt_canada
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Username: Thunderbolt_canada
Post Number: 1
Registered: 7-2013
| | Posted on Sunday, July 21, 2013 - 10:46 am: |
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New member; Just came across this site and was reading some of the comments about the CB times in the70's. BOY DOES IT TAKE ME BACK IN TIME!!!
Got me thinking that I should dig out some of the CB stuff that I have had packed away for over 35 years. The first thing that comes to mind is the Brand New C-146 Moonraker 6 that is in the box and never been opened. Use to run Stacked 4 element Moonrakers but never got around to put up the six. I have a roll-a-dex full of QSL cards that I have to dig out and look up some names for future conversations. Hey, that's it for now. Got lots years and great stories to tell and would be glad to swap some. |
Revpo
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Username: Revpo
Post Number: 647
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 22, 2013 - 11:39 am: |
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Someone mentioned TONY in the BRONX, I heard him on a number of years ago maybe 4 or 5 on chnl 40,always enjoyed talking to the gang from NEW YORK..BRONX on chnl 13 in the winter on am.
Lots of JAMAICAN guys on on the upper frequencies, but haven't done that for many years. Stick to the ham bands but do look for CEF guys on chnl 36 usb, but non heard, not like the old days.
REVPO/795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Keithinatlanta
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Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 965
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 27, 2013 - 2:47 pm: |
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I got in to cb radio in 1973 and am wondering for those of you in the late 50's and 60's was there a lot of skip going on back then?
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Thunderbolt_canada
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Username: Thunderbolt_canada
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2013
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2013 - 4:48 pm: |
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Can't say how much was in the 50's & 60's but when I started in 1969 thru the 70's it was great. I have talked skip, including Europe, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Central and North America, Canada and Alaska. We had some good base stations back then. |
Ozfisho
Junior Member
Username: Ozfisho
Post Number: 17
Registered: 4-2012
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 12:10 am: |
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We work into the US nearly every morning from here in Western Australia, usually the same guys out of California and Honalulu. CB has been going off in Australia again of late, but nothing like it used to be.
73s
Cheers
Dale
43IOR377 |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 648
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 7:39 pm: |
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I use to talk to IRELAND for a number of years in a row, like both ssb and am, winter is great if you do not have the idiots on top of you talking to the NEW YORK gang on chnl 13, maybe I will dig the GALAXY out once again, maybe it will stir up some CEF stations <ha>, will listen on usb chnl 38 SUNDAY as usual
REVPO CEF 795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Ozfisho
Junior Member
Username: Ozfisho
Post Number: 18
Registered: 4-2012
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 7:43 am: |
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Channel 38 LSB on evening for you guys and then it's morning or noon here.
Cheers
Dale |
N4ari
Junior Member
Username: N4ari
Post Number: 36
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 11:03 am: |
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Ahh, those were great times! Started in 1968 with a Lafayette Comstat 23 my parents bought me for Christmas (still works!). Back then we proudly IDed and used our license; mine KCW4927 near Pittsburgh. 5 years later went to the ham bands.
Channels were clear, we used real names, and foul language was very rare. Media & truckers made it popular but that was the beginning of the junk, interference and trash talk. I keep tuning in on 11m hoping to find a clean gang somewhere but no where to be found. Thank goodness for ham. |
Sniper1
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Username: Sniper1
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 12:03 pm: |
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Been on since 1961. Used a Lafayette HE-20a and a quarter wave ground plane from Lafayette. First license was KNP-2194. Radio was much more pleasurable back then. Radio interference was next to nothing and contacts on 4 watts were easily made 50 miles or better. I live 30 miles East of Pittsburgh, Pa. and would talk nightly to a few folks in Wintersville, and Youngstown Ohio. I guess there was just no electrical interference back then like there is today. Seems as though a 100 watts will hardly get you 50 miles on a good night anymore with all the noise! |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 2400
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 10:43 pm: |
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Cool read Sniper1!
Good ole Lafayette's!
Road Warrior / CEF 375
Tyrone, PA (Jim)
Local ch. 27.505 Am or LSB
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Pine_tree
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Username: Pine_tree
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2014
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 9:59 am: |
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Hi all. I was KBI7301 unit 1 & KCX2369 in northern NJ in 1964. My first rigs were Lafayette HB115A & Laf. HE15B & antenna was a Lafayette "Speakin' Beacon" vertical w/a neon light on the top.
I still repair/restore old CB's as a hobby. I was a contributing writer to the Woodyworld CB Gazette (check it out online!)
CB was a great way to meet YL's!!! |
Spacemann
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Username: Spacemann
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2015
| | Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 11:12 pm: |
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Nice to see so many old timers from the '60s on here! I knew quite a few KBsI, KKDs, and KMD calls in the Bronx back then. There were a lot of CBers in the Pelham Parkway area, as well as Throggs Neck, Co Op City, and around the Grand Concourse, as well as on Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey. |
Spacemann
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Username: Spacemann
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2015
| | Posted on Sunday, November 29, 2015 - 11:24 pm: |
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Hey guys, lets all get back on! There is a channel on the Zello smartphone app for old time CB operators. Why don't we all meet up?? ;) |
Barnaclebill
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Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2016
| | Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 6:08 pm: |
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Hi all, After about 40 years I'm getting ready to start up the CB again. I'll be putting up an antenna when the weather warms up a bit and I'm keeping my eye out for a good but not super expensive radio. Then I plan on getting my Ham license if my interest peaks. My question is does my original CB license KIK 9300 still legal for me to use after all these years of inactivity? I know for Ham I have to take the test and get a new license number for it but right now my concern is for CB. Thanks. |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 796
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2016 - 9:22 am: |
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You do not need a license, just make up a number or name and your set to go.
The good channels are ssb 36-40 mostly lsb although CEF uses 36 I believe USB.
AM has a lot of nuts on and foul language some places, stick with ssb.
Have a good one.
CEF 795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Barnaclebill
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Username: Barnaclebill
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2016
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2016 - 4:59 pm: |
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Thanks Revpo. I wrote down the info you sent and am anxious to get talking. |
Charliebrown
Intermediate Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 478
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 7:09 am: |
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I have been in radio for over 40 year's also. I agree that back in the 60's were the better days. At this time for the most part I call 11 meter the Jerry Springer radio. Mostly trash talking. I also see people have strayed from the true word of God and have lost their morals completely on 11 meter. They have lost their fear of God. With all being said is it any wonder that 11 meter is what it is. NO RESPECT NO MORALS. TRASH. Do not get me wrong. I have found some true Christian's that make it worth while.Few |
Wire_saber
Junior Member
Username: Wire_saber
Post Number: 41
Registered: 4-2015
| | Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 1:33 am: |
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People like you were my role models when I started with a one channel Walkie talkie in 1974. Worked like a horse to get my first radio: a Cobra 132a and an Astroplane antenna (still have call sign card issued by FCC). An uncle taught me to build wire dipoles, and I got hooked on dx'ing ever since. Went into hiatus during military service. Picked the habit up again @ 4 years ago. After learning in disappointment that mutual respect and radio discipline have gone to hell in a hand basket, I've resorted to my passion for DX. Many radio operators from overseas strive to represent their countries favorably thru courteous and engaging communication skills. Exceptions abound, but I enjoy fishing for quality QSOs. |
Charliebrown
Intermediate Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 480
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 5:09 pm: |
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So good to hear others feel as I. |
Spacemann
Junior Member
Username: Spacemann
Post Number: 10
Registered: 3-2015
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 7:53 pm: |
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It's AWESOME to see that so many of you old time CBers are still out there! We need to figure a way to restart the interest in CB! If they just still made CB 11 Meter walkie talkies like they did back in the '60s and '70s, we just might be able to spark an interest with the younger generation!!! |
Revpo
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Username: Revpo
Post Number: 798
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2016 - 9:04 am: |
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WELL as I say, leave your radios on CHNL 36 USB, maybe interest will spark again from CEF members, not just 2 hours a week but 7 days a week. . Give it a try maybe a CEF number will be heard.
CEF 795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Ozfisho
Junior Member
Username: Ozfisho
Post Number: 39
Registered: 4-2012
| | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2016 - 4:30 am: |
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Everyone hangs on 27355 LSB down here. Have a listen on there from time to time.
Amateur Call: VK6FIOR
27mhz Call: 43WR377
43AU377
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Hrdddrv
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Username: Hrdddrv
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2016
| | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2016 - 9:20 pm: |
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Oh the memories this thread has conjured up. Over 50 years here, waaay over here on the other side of the country, when my uncle convinced my dad to jump in ('64?) in Roseburg, OR. Both had 6-channel Hallicrafters base radios they installed in their cars, I think a CB-9 and a CB-7. It was always fun going with them to "coffee breaks" and other events. Still remember both their KLC call signs, which they used while following the rules on the air.
When we moved to the big city of Portland in '66 (I was 10), my dad heard the noise, clutter, and misuse of the airwaves, and put the equipment away. I got it back out a couple years later, and joined right in with the ol' CB-9. I eventually got my own license (still remember my own KQX call sign, too), even though by then it didn't matter. Would have preferred using it, but I played along with everyone else.
Never did much DXing but the next several years were a blast, finally got my own (cheap) equipment and met a bunch of great people, some who are still friends today, until selling and storing it all in the mid 80s. Pulled it back out a few weeks ago, missing the good ol' days. I guess it will never be the same, but...treasured memories. |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 799
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 9:32 am: |
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The sky opened up, I talked to a guy on CB yesterday on channel 16 a few miles from me, he was putting up a base station, for CB to talk home from his driving area, so now 2 of us on in the neighborhood.
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I am also on WINMOR if anyone wants to send me a message.
K8LEN@WINMOR.ORG
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Guess I will be on chnl 16 for a while.
CEF 795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Press_man
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Username: Press_man
Post Number: 918
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 2:25 pm: |
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...-.-
I don't go back to the 60s on radio but do go back to the 70s. Got married in '73 and hade to put $ aside for college classes so I could get a career going and not just a job. Then my oldest son came in 1975 and we budgeted for a hobby that I'd be home with. No more Hot Rods! So I got a tower, radio, D-104 and GP. OMG the DX left and we went into noise. It was almost impossible to talk 15 miles, then gradually things got better. The GP changed to a PDL2 and CB really became fun. Eventually got a Ham ticket and had a blast with that. Then in 94 my youngest son passed and I left the hobby. Now I'm back in and at 63yrs old I now find everything changed. One thing is finding help on tower projects. Relatives come over to borrow this and that, but can't be found when I need them!
73 Pressman
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Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 800
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 8:26 am: |
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Your right on that pressman, everyone disappears when a tower project comes along. Now I just have wire antennas, invertedvee, and end fed, I can handle those easily on push up poles.
See you on the airwaves.
CEF795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Watt
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Username: Watt
Post Number: 65
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2018 - 12:15 pm: |
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Guess I will revive this old thread. I don’t go back as far as the 60s as far as radio goes but I started with my first pair of channel 14 walkie talkies in 1974. I remember installing the 9 volt batteries and the first time I turned them on I heard all these voices from all over the country. The skip was really rolling that day. Our neighbor was a radio tech back then so he described to my young mind how I was hearing all these stations. He said it was “skip”. I was hooked. As the years went by things really progressed. Suddenly we had antennas growing out of everywhere. Then came amplifiers etc. eventually I got my ham ticket and have been enjoying that as well but I never left CB. I have met so many friends over the years because of radio. I remember turning on the radio at anytime day or night and there were round table conversations going on from channel 1 to 40. It was great. Now only time I hear someone is when the skip is rolling. There are very few locals left here in my area. Maybe some day it will make a comeback. Younger generation seems to be to intrigued with their smartphones. 73s to all. |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 860
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 03, 2018 - 8:14 pm: |
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HOWDY WATT
HAM ALSO since 1958 but still have a cb unit at home listen chnl 36 ssb only, no local's left all sk.
You on ECHO LINK give me a call or WINLINK it is free also they have now ardop or winmor winlink, I use PACTOR also..K8LEN@WINLINK.ORG.
73
CEF 795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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