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Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 5:04 pm: | 
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How long have you been on the copper forum?
How long have you been on the radio, on any band? |
Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 6:42 pm: |
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Taz
My first CB call sign was KID-8548 when it was issued to me in 1968 when I was 20 years old. My first mobile setup was a 23ch tube Courier radio that I bolted to the bottom of the steel dashboard and a 102" whip on the rear bumper of my 1955 Chevy. Sure wish I still had that Chevy.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
mikefromms
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 9:23 pm: |
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Been on Copper's forum for 4 or 5 months.
Been in CB since the middle 70's when I was 14 or 15. My first two groundplanes were a used radio shack 1/4 wave (gift) and later I gave $5 for a used CLR2. Had terrible SWR with both. One reason I stuck to fiberglass ground place since--until recently.
mikefromms |
Ironmask
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:03 pm: |
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KGS 8024 here! Started in radio in 1959. Been on Copper forum about two years.
TAZ, I comend your knowlege level and above all your willingness to continue to learn.
You see, I know a little and with that in mind I am wide open for more knowlege.
Iron Mask |
Dx431
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:15 pm: |
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I have been on the forum for a little over a year now. Started in radio about'79 with a Rad Shak 40 channel A.M. Base and the Rad Shak 5\8 wave ground plane base ant. Worked well till one day it got struck by lightening.  After that I went to a Super Penatrator that I got for free and a Cobra 148 GTL.Wish I still had them. I had a flat swr on all 40 channels.For a barefoot radio, it rocked. |
Lowpowerhal
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:18 pm: |
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TAZ Just new to the forum maybe 2 months. Iv learned a bunch. This is a good infomative site. My first call letters was KES-2754 . My first radio was a used heathkit lunchbox radio, on a dipole wire , My dad strung up. Had 3 channels , 3,6,11. Talked on channel 6 most of the time. Hit big time when i talked to the next town 12 miles away . Belive it or not we sent Qsl cards. Oh well Im just old fuddey duddey. 73's My freinds |
Bullseye
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:35 pm: |
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Been on the forum about a year and a half,I think. Been into radios(CB)it seems like all my life. At least I can never remember a time when my Dad did'nt have one in the house and in every vehicle! |
radiodude
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:46 pm: |
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I built my first radio in 56 and have been "into " cb ever since. Have been on the forum since 2000 |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 11:14 pm: |
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Ive been on the radio since 97, and wish I started earlier. LOL
I was only 10 at the time, but maybe I should have started at 9? |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 2:01 am: |
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I started later in life on the radio in 1996. Just got the desire all of a sudden. I still don't know what prompted it.
Lasted for about a year when the locals just did not like "outsiders" so I left. A few years later, got back in and have been loving it ever since.
I've been on the Copper Forum for roughly two years, give or take a few months (I'm not sure to be honest). Man have I learned a lot (and still learning).
Firmly believe that there are no stupid questions out there. If you don't know, just ask.
Alsworld |
Buck
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 9:17 am: |
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Ive been in radio since I was about 10 or 11 also....Got some stuff from one of my friends grandfathers and set it up. We talked everyday until we graduated HS. Ive been on the forum for close to two years I think. Not sure though...time flies when you're having fun!!!
Buck |
Pointman
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 11:05 am: |
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Joined just a few months ago. Very friendly informative forum.
I have enjoyed radios since I was a child. I have been seriously into and out of it over the last 8 years and now am back and enjoying with with my two boys and getting them into it. It is a lot of fun for me and I am enjoying watching my boys now having fun.
I am also for the first time trying to make some long distance DX contacts on SSB and that has opened up a entire new dimension for me.
My wife thinks I am crazy but she is changing her tune after she saw how much fun my 4 year old boy had talking to me in her mivivan while I was in my Buick. |
Stickshift
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:37 pm: |
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I've only been on the forum for about two months now. I got hit by the cb bug when I was about 8 or 9. I had a little Radio Shack 5-channel crystal radio with a magnet-mount antenna stuck to the rain gutter outside my window. I'm sure the swr's were through the roof and the recieve wasn't all that good, but it sure was fun talking with the locals. I got really interested when i was about 13. I got my first taste of sideband with an old Midland 23-channel base and a Penetrator 500 at about 20 feet off the ground. Later that year I mounted the antenna on the roof of my mom's house and started getting serious. Soon, new radios were being bought every two weeks with what little money I was making with after school jobs. I was off the air for a couople years after I moved out of my folks house. I still don't get on the air as often as I would like, but I look forward to every Sunday on the CEF Net.
73's my friends
stickshift: CEF 142 |
bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 3:01 pm: |
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1st radios when i was 5 i got hooked on building catswisker crystal sets ( i still build them )my older brother was intrested in becoming a ham but lost intrest for a decade then got his general. For my 9th birthday 1958 my dad bought me a hallicrafters s38e shortwave and ....the rest is history ....... i been on the forum about 3 years |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 6:36 pm: |
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I first started in radio in 1973 and I had a 23 channel Midland mobil, and I still have it, and it is in good shape, I also had a Courier 23 channel base, that I still have and use, I am CHEAP. |
Sixkiller505
| | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 8:28 am: |
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been in radio since "70" first radio was a johnson mobile on a car battery("phew!!!can still smell the acid")traded for a johnson 123a(wow 23 chs)then got a pace 8041(loud) got a pierce simpson simba base for christmas one year and a mighty magnum 3 base antenna(from then on it was on!!) been on the forum going on two years."oh yeah!by the way i still have the johnson 123a"!! sixkiller505 |
Bullet
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 2:43 am: |
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i started around 1973-74 on my dads mobile. and have been in and out of it since. took a few years off when i lived in apartments,but kept one in the mobile.
when i got back into it i began to thurst more for what makes things tic than i did in the earlier years.
i guess because theres not as many folks local here as thier use to be on the air.man did we ever used to have a good time on the radio.
todays crowd is more technical minded witch leads to some interesting conversations at times but is not near as fun as the good old boy pranks and joking around we used to do.(all in good fun mind you nothing bad)
so now i find my nose is in a book more than in front of a radio.
bad thing is i still know nothing. haha 
ive been coming here for a long time as soon as we seen the website on the little magazine coppers has. i just registered not to long ago(cant remember)i used to just sign my post at the bottom. |
Twa77
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 1:29 pm: |
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i started radio sometime around 94-95 with a kraco 23 channel deluxe and a ss whip mounted on the gutter at my folkes house it only got bigger from there. i got into sideband around 98 when i got a pc 122. now i run mostly sideband. i have been on the forum for a year. i have looked at the forum quite a while before i joined.
tony
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Sandbagger106
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 2:11 pm: |
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Lets see,I was first licensed by the FCC in about 1975 I think, KOG4366 was my call if I remember correctly, then in 1999 or so I got a amateur license. I guess about 28 years on radio. Still don't have a cell phone. PS. I've been on the Copper forum 1 or 2 years or so. sb106 |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 3:21 pm: |
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BUCK had an antenna on his covered wagon on his way to Idaho back in 18 and 76, where he met his lady fair. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 5:21 pm: |
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You must not have had your glasses on Karatebutcher,that was a horse whip.I got into radio 14 years ago,at age 36,with a johnson messenger 23 channel base and mobile,antron 99,and a big mama mobile whip. |
Buck
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 5:59 pm: |
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No Bigbob, I think Karate had too many glasses of something.
Buck |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 6:12 pm: |
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I wish, I had to many glasses . |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 5:04 am: |
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Strange how time flys and the years on the radio add up on nov 22 1963 i went with a cb friend to Lafette radio to pick up some parts for a tech school project and a new mike for his he-20 cb set Its intresting how well i remember that day. The TV sets lined up all showing the news coverage it was a rainy night in Jamaca new york and how quite ch 10 was on the CB set both in his car and after I got home.......
I past Buck in his wagon beating that poor horse Karate was right it had a 9 foot wip roof mounted....... |
Triplecguy
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 4:08 pm: |
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I guess I'll throw my 2 cents in as well. Had my first CB at 16 back in 92. (That's 1992 Bruce, not 1892). It was a midland 40 channel plus antenna for like 40 bucks. It was kinda of a muduck, but it still was enough for me to cause quite a bit of trouble on. Put it in the old vette, and had some crazy times. By the way, that was a Chevette, not a Corvette. After I had one for a week or two, met a few locals on the radio and my buddy decided to get one himself and we used them like cell phones, and because of the sun spot activity at the time, at night time you could get anywhere in town with absolutley no background noise or anything. Well, the sun spots came back and we graduated from high school and everybody in my town forgot what CB was. Gone were the countless hours every night of rag chwing and fox hunting, gone were the hours of trying to start fights and making fun of others, gone were the nights of meeting CB chicks and hooking up with them. And it has been dead here ever sense. Truckers won't talk, other people who have them in their mobiles never even turn them on. But I have never gone a day without one in the truck. FRS, GMRS, Cell Phones, yeah they're fancier, but good old 2 way AM is tough to beat. Now I am a ham who loves VHF and UHF and the clarity of the signal, but right next to those thousnads of dollars in ham gear, there is always the PC68XL and the 79-290, ready to go at a moments notice. And I'll tell you what is some of the best times I ever had with the CB is a whole lotta folks throughout the area, chattin away about evertyhing and anything, while sippin bourbon and coke or tipping back a few longnecks and just watching life go by in the warm summer evenings. To me that's what CB is all about. And yes, aint it funny how time flies. I finally have the money to buy the toys I want, I just wish I had the time to use them.
73's to all
DAN |
Kattracker
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 5:31 pm: |
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I have been into radio since 1973. I had a Robyn 23 CH mobile on a power pack as my first radio. I wish I could remember what model it was. I thought it was the neatest radio. It had the channel buttons on the mic. Antenna was an Archer 1/4 omni and I had it all up 60 feet. I eventually got a Varmint 50 watt amp. Dirty lil thing, I bled the whole north end of town.
As far as the forum, I have been on about a month.
I am enjoying the forum. Interesting to read the different views and the tech stuff.
Kattracker |
Tech808
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 1:38 am: |
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First Radio about 1967.
Joined Copper Forum about 18 month's ago.
Been Copper Tech808 Since August 7, 2002
Been having Fun every since!
Lon
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RCI 2990
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 3:13 am: |
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Been on the air since 1990 or so. First real base setup was a preident madison, big stick antenna, Tx star 250. Thought i was a big dog then! LOL! Then i was a sophomore in high school and we had a small CB club then as well. We used to have a blast talking and pulling pranks and just acting like a bunch of goofballs. Today no one from our old CB club is on anymore and the guys that are on the air all talk technical stuff and its not near as fun to get on as it was when i was a teenager.. I still have my old base setup at the folkese house ( my RCI 2995, ranger AR 3500, Cobra 142GTL, moonraker beams and a whole lot of other CB related stuff as well!) and a mobile in my car -RCI 2970 DX wilson 1000 antenna- but ive found other hobbies other than CB radio anymore. Oh, someday ill go up to the folkses and fire up my stuff and talk but for now it all sits.... Collecting dust!!!!! |
Tech181
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 5:24 pm: |
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Copper Forum? First post May 9, 2001, at 12:11 AM.
Radio? Since 1990 or thereabouts.
Back sandbaggin'! |
Buck
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 8:35 pm: |
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WOW...Look who the cat dragged in!!!! How ya doing 181???
Buck |
cactusjack
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 11:40 pm: |
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Well back in 1973 my father bought a base radio and antenna, and a mobile radio and antenna. He put the base in the house and the moble in his truck and we would talk when he was driving back and forth from work. If I remember right the base was a Teaberry (I was only 5 years old). well the base broke down and we took it to a local guy to fix it. To make a long story short the local tech moved and took the radio with him and we never saw it again. The base antenna is an old astro-plane and I still use it to this day. I didn't mess with radios much again until I was in my lower teens. Some friends and I hauled hay for some extra money in the summer and put radios in our trucks and got the radio thing started again.
Then I got away from it again when girls came into the picture.( women will do that to a fellow HEE HEE). Then about 4 years ago I got back into radios again.
I found this forum about 2 months ago and have been on here almost every day since.
cactusjack |
Damyankee
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 1:26 am: |
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Just thinking back, I guess it was about 1974. I was in junior high. 1st radio was an International Executive 2 piece tube set. The "under dash" portion is as big as my Galaxy DX93T. It had a common cable with about 10 wires that ran back to the "remote" unit. Still have it...and it worked last time I checked. Call sign was KJP9739. Ran that radio on an AS 3 element beam. Freebanding then was the extra channel you got with the 23 channel synthesized crystal units, don't remember the freq. I have been here mostly reeading & learning since about a year ago. I enjoy the folks and have learned much from all of you. 340 |
bruce
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 5:13 am: |
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cactusjack ..........
You meen you would give up RADIO for women? Whats WRONG with you! Well at least i see you RECOVERED.
HE HE HE |
Stepchild
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 3:43 pm: |
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I've been on the forum for 8 or 10 months,been around the copper site for a couple yrs.I didn't know about the forum until I triped over it one night.My family has a strong background in trucking,so I' been around CB all my life.I got my first CB at 17 from my dad when he re-tired. It was a Cobra29LTD(NOT the classic,the old style early 80's model)peaked and tuned TRK56 and a set of Twin hustlers.Man I thought that was a BIG RADIO.In the early 90's I met a guy that told me what little bit I know about SSB.He got me started and I've been asking questions every since. |
mroutlaw
| | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 8:53 am: |
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forum not to long
radio seems like forever -- kbgd-1863, old school, first radio was an old 3 channel crystal type, |
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