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Pabluetick
New member
Username: Pabluetick
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 8:58 am: | 
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Mine was a Globe CB 100 3 channel rig with two sets of xtals in it. Channels 7 & 11...Antenna was a 1/4 wave groundplane.. Upgraded to a Lafayette Comstat 25B a few years later w/ a Penetrator 5/8 wave, then a Cobra 2000. Now I'm an Extra class Ham.. Only CB I have is a small RatShack mobile in the truck for travelling...Lots of fun was had with those old rigs and kindled my love of radio.... |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4032
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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A HEATH CB-1 I built from a kit in 1960 .... then DAD got a HE-15 which i still have ...It needs to be recaped.
Today I use a GRANT-LT |
Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 511
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 11:13 am: |
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First one was a Handheld - 3 channels with 11 and 19 in it (Back when 11m was still a ham band in Australia). Followed by a Radio shack 23ch HH. Now I have a Cobra 148, a Browingin LTD and a Uniden PC-122 |
Coyote
Advanced Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 872
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 12:38 pm: |
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If I remember correctly, it was a TruTone 3 channel walkie-talkie with channels 10, 14 and 19. Channel 10 was the main channel around here back then and I stood outside many a cold night just to talk with the locals. |
Moderator476
Moderator
Username: Moderator476
Post Number: 92
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 3:52 pm: |
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Midland 13-888 top cover face meter and channel,
used with a rat Shack 4 amp power supply and a rat shack 1/4 wave groundplane..
Now I use a Galaxy Saturn with a Imax 2000
George
Moderator476
CEF476(Starface) |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 11030
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 5:42 pm: |
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In 1963 in our Jr. High School Radio Club we had to build the Heathkit CB-1 radio.
So that was my 1st CB Radio.
And I have been in the radio hobby every since then. 
And that was also the FIRST and LAST & ONLY time I have ever used a long wire antenna on anything. 
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9CEF
CVC#2 |
Hyperno_1979
Intermediate Member
Username: Hyperno_1979
Post Number: 129
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 6:55 pm: |
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Bought my first car in 1978 with a Realistic TRC-453? installed in it. Used it for a couple of years thinking it was just an 18 channel ssb until i sold the car and took it out. Hello....what do these 5 switches do on the back of it? I still have it in the hall cupboard...might take it out and fire it up. See if it still works. Thanx for the memory jog.
CEFFFCEF
Bob CEF703. |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 1876
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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First Cb rig was a 23 channel Midland Base
with a roll clock in it. Forget the model
number. First antenna was a Starduster. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 2036
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 7:46 pm: |
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my first radio was a TRC-440 navaho that my dad got from the engineering firm that he was working for.
they had upgraded to VHF and this was stored in a cabinet.
i had it hooked to a cobra mobile antenna that i bought at a garage sale, which i stuck in the rain gutter.
only made one contact, to a trucker who laughed at my handle "sid vicious", and told me since i was just a kid, my handle should be "kid vicious".
later,
matt |
Ronin
New member
Username: Ronin
Post Number: 6
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 7:58 pm: |
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First CB radio was a Ray Jefferson CB-705 bought for me by my mother as a gift for my 16th birthday in 1976 and ran it into a R/S 1/2 wave antenna.
Currently, a R/S TRC-465 into an A-99 Antron. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4037
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 9:36 pm: |
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LON YOU MADE MY DAY ......
I also had the 10 6 and 2 meter lunchboxes ..... |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1303
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 11:31 pm: |
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If memory is anywhere near correct, my first radio in 1963 was a used Lafayette, can't seem to remember the model that it was, just remember that it was an 8 channel transmit and 23 channel tuneable receive . I had all the crystals for the channels that were in use in my local area. Everyone monitored channel 11 and went to another channel, after contact was made to talk to a friend.
My first new radio was the Lafayette HB-222, right after they first came on the market, back then it was a big thing to have a 23 channel base radio.
As I remember the first antenna, if I'm correct was a fairly new used Antenna Specialist Super Magnum.
I didn't buy a new antenna until I was on the air for about 5 years and that was the Antenna Specialist 3 element electronic directional Scanner antenna.
My station now is the Uniden Grant XL, Silver Eagle D-104 and the Avanti PDL-ll vertical,horizontal beam.
The mobile is the first model of the Cobra 148-GTL, with a Radio Shack power microphone and the antenna is the K-40 Trucker.
Carl CEF-357 |
Wally38
Intermediate Member
Username: Wally38
Post Number: 130
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 1:49 am: |
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My first was a Realistic TRC 432 from Radio Shack. Had walkie talkies from Radio Shack before that. Back when you had to buy crystals for the channel you wanted. |
Unit199
Intermediate Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 318
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 4:45 am: |
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MY FIRST RADIO WAS A 6 CHANNEL MIDLAND MOBILE THAT TOOK CRYSTALS. WE RAN ON CHANNEL 7. MY FIRST BASE RADIO WAS A JOHNSON MESSENGER ONE ALSO KNOWN AS JOHNSON WHITEFACE WHICH I STILL HAVE AND IT STILL WORKS GREAT. MY BASE ANTENNA WAS A SUPER MAG MADE BY ANTENNA SPECIALISTS AND MY MOBILE WAS A HUSTLER GUTTER MOUNT.
HARVE
UNIT199 |
Thehobo
Member
Username: Thehobo
Post Number: 97
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 7:56 am: |
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wow, talk about going back?? my first radio was a citi phone!! it was as big as a tram base, and had an on off volumn knob.. wired in hand mike, and had two crystel sockets in front, the old big crystals, one for transmit the other for recieve, the you had a car door, ( 49 ford type ), handle that you had to manully switch from transmit to recieve!! lol.. and yes, had all crystals for it as well as a few that went up a bit?? used a 1/4 wave g/p for awhile till a freind and i built a 3 eleamen beam.. was that a heck of a looking contraction, but it worked, this was in early 1958
my first licenes started out 10q-----..
thehobo
269150 am
monitor ch |
Allan
Intermediate Member
Username: Allan
Post Number: 192
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 9:32 am: |
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Early '70's (NIB)TRC-50 mini-23.........Think it had a mod light that flickered as there was no meter. Believe I paid 80 bucks for that thing. Moved to the Snakes after that one.... |
Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 309
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 9:32 am: |
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my first cb radio was a 601 royce,the one with the modulation light in the meter
moderator1516 |
Grumpy8220
Intermediate Member
Username: Grumpy8220
Post Number: 117
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 10:21 am: |
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Lafayette Telsat 150 for Mobile with Hustler Antenna
Realistic TRC 30A for Base with Tandy 1/4 wave Ground Plane Antenna
Realistic TRC 57 was my first SSB Base which I still own today.
Started Jan. 1972 |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 3176
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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don't remember the name, my uncle an OTR driver gave it to me around '72 or so when he upgraded my aunt to a 'modern' 23 ch base station. it had 6 channels, & you needed to flip a switch on the front to talk into the microphone. 6 position channel selector, volume & squelch if i remember, was it. took me a couple months to convince my father to buy me an antenna & put it on the roof. didn't use it too often til the start of the cb boom around late '73 when my friends from school got 'new, modern' 23 channel cb's-after they saw 'movies' & realized i'd already had one. |
Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 1715
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 11:45 am: |
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Christmas 1979 Santa (dad) gave me a 1 channel crystal controlled walkie talkie. Why they all came with channel 14 who knows but we went to Radio Shack and they female sales person there replaced channel 14 with 19. I was hooked at 4 years old.
By the time I was 12 I was running an old Cobra 29, 23 channel with a Texas Star V Mod and a Shakespear Big Stick 60 feet high! I earned all this stuff doing chores, mowing grass and helping to run a dog kennel. Ol dad hooked me up! |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 3178
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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i think channel 14 had some sort of 'less restrictions' then the rest-no license, or 'general conversations' or something to that effect.... |
Ajm1571
Intermediate Member
Username: Ajm1571
Post Number: 287
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 1:52 pm: |
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I cant remember as that was 26 years ago when I got my first radio. I think it was a cobra but I used my dads alot  |
Dxmodulator
Junior Member
Username: Dxmodulator
Post Number: 43
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 11:40 am: |
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Mine is a GE 5819-A. had since high school 11 years now It still works. |
Cdrive
Junior Member
Username: Cdrive
Post Number: 15
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 11:40 am: |
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First CB Royce Base Model number has faded from Memory.
First Ham Radio "Swan" Radio has Faded from Planet. |
Akbowtie
Member
Username: Akbowtie
Post Number: 63
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 1:26 pm: |
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Some old 5 or 6 channel midland i believe. Got it from my dad. I bolted it to the headboard of my bed and I'd talk and listen for hours and hours at night. Had a Rat Shack mobile antenna bolted to a tree outside. |
Goat373
Intermediate Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 281
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 2:27 pm: |
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uniden pc-510.
hat it in my 1983 ford f-100 till it threw a rod.
i couldnt bring myself to put it in my new car..('86 crown vic ltd)
so i put it in my room with a cb/am/fm stealth antenna shoved into the viynl soffit.
HOWEVER...at the time i thought that cb where hunters and truckers only and that "skip" was the most anoying thing on the face of the earth.
later in life i got a radioshack trc-421 and got involved with some locals here in charleston that ran big power on channel 6...steped up(or down rather) into a galaxy 55 and been hooked ever since...now i run.
base:
cobra 200gtldx...cobra 85 23 chn base...RCI 2970dx
...Yaesu ft-100d...Icom 2100h...copper j-pole on 2 meters, imax 2000, and par oa-50 on 6 meters...also have a radio shack PRO-2055 scanner with a old scantenna up about 20 feet.
Moble:magnum 257/radioshack htx-242
wilson 5000 trucker/maxrad 5/8 nmo mount |
Moderator136
Moderator
Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 300
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 8:06 pm: |
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Heathkit cb-1 Only 3 channel you had to add the crystals for the channels , Mine had 3-13-21 They called it the lunchbox.
My dad strung a dipole wire up in the trees and made lots a contacts on that old lunchbox radio.
My first long distance contact was New york city at that time, I think his handle was showboat and he sent me a QSL card. Opps you was not to give my address out dad said: After that little mistake i had my own p.o. number. And i did have my own QSL cards. I went by NightRider.
I bought a Lafayette 25b had channel 24 installed hummm i bought it used, But it did get out.Oh i forgot had what they called a trixstick antenna mounted horizontal and that made a big difference. Then i heard a bunch of guys that had like skiltronic or golden eagles and (SSB)
Thats another story: Never could get the greenbacks to buy one! (As Walt would say : that the end of Story and good night!)
Moderator 136
kc0svc
CEF 136
CVC#4
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Moderator476
Moderator
Username: Moderator476
Post Number: 99
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 8:52 pm: |
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Hal wasn't it something like now you know the rest of the story? |
Dan_in_wa
Junior Member
Username: Dan_in_wa
Post Number: 24
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 9:47 pm: |
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A Courier Rebel 23 that I bought used for $90 in '73 (great deal at the time). I used a Hustler trunk lip mount antenna and spent many nights sitting in my '70 Pontiac LeMans parked in front of my parent's house talking on the radio (I was 16). I'm sure the neighbors thought I was a very weird kid. I still have the radio and it works great!. (And ya, I'm still weird) |
Canon5218
Junior Member
Username: Canon5218
Post Number: 27
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 11:18 pm: |
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Realistic TRC-492 Navaho (100% Stock and Given to me)
Antron A-99 35' in the air on a single mast.
Talked real good and made alot of local contacts and a few skip contacts. I was asked what my handle was and I really didn't have one so I said well I don't have one...guy said how old are you and I said 12 they all agreed I was the "Youngin" and I be dag on I am still the youngest in most things I do in life...haha |
Drexel
Junior Member
Username: Drexel
Post Number: 38
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 11:51 am: |
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Citi Phone SS 23 channel with a Devant 1 GP on a 50 ft push up. Turner Plus 2 Mike. That was in 1969. |
Pabluetick
New member
Username: Pabluetick
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 2:10 pm: |
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My brother-in-laws dad had a Lafayette Comstat 25a in the mobile and an Allied A-2567 in the house the Allied was a Cobra Cam 88 with Allied's name on it. Switched to Johnson Messenger one's for mobile use.. Strapped the resistors and added the rectifier tube replacements to get 15 watts out. |
Watt
Junior Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 35
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 5:13 pm: |
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My first rig was a midland 13-898B 23 ch. AM/FM/SSB base radio and a starduster ant on a 40 ft. tower. This post sure brings back memories reading abt. all those almost forgotten rigs. |
Draft
Member
Username: Draft
Post Number: 51
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 8:24 pm: |
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Oh yes, I forgot the ever-so-faithful Shakespeare Super Big Stick, on a 25-foot mast, as my first vertical antenna! |
Draft
Member
Username: Draft
Post Number: 52
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 8:17 pm: |
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My first radio was a Midland 23-channel mobile, I still have it up in the attic. After about a year of using it on a Radio Shack power supply, my dad bought me a Cobra 2000GTL (this was back in about 1984). |
Mdiver
Intermediate Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 449
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 04, 2006 - 9:14 pm: |
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Mine was a Crystal set when I was 7 years old |
Mr_rf
Intermediate Member
Username: Mr_rf
Post Number: 289
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 6:36 am: |
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First rig was a 4 channel Polycom base station. Had rocks for about 6 channels. All those tubes made a good heater on cold winter nights! |
Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 231
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 9:16 am: |
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my first radio was a pearce simpson and for the antenna was a newtronics hustler center load trunk mount.
As for the base I do not recall the model but it was a regency tube type I think it was a 23 channel it took about 15 minutes to warm up just to be able to talk on it. |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 1891
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 6:53 pm: |
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I once dreamed about owning a Pearce Simpson
Simba, but, it never became a reality...LOL |
Revpo
Junior Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 35
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 3:46 pm: |
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My first radio was a tube transceiver to far back to know the name, it was a kit, built it and it worked I think it was around 3 watts, I hooked it up to the tv antenna with 300 ohm line<whatswr> and talked to the other side of town around 5 miles, but the receiver was super regen everybody was in one place, so my dad got me a Gonset 3 channel and I talked to shelby Ohio around 15 miles using a long wire..
I used that rig for years with a cb license kxj1927,I remember that, then I got a ham license and still do, and still operate the bands including CB,its still fun,
CB rigs
trc 441 2 of them
sears road talker
galaxy 959
Uniden 2600
antenna
maco 5/8, astro plane
rat shack unit in the car
Ham
ft 857d
alinco dx70t
mfj qrp rigs
ten tec century 21
and a morse telegraph land line unit/rr telegraph/
and operate it also
All I can remember today
revpo/doctor
CEF 795, monitor chnl 13 am |
Vanillagorilla
Advanced Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 820
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 7:13 pm: |
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First real rig was a GE 40 channel mobile set up in my bedroom as a kid of 12yrs old
(Still have it after 25yrs!)
That radio shared duty with a GM-23 mobile that came in at the same time.
Would swipe the GE "DIGITAL PLL" from Dad in the garage when I could.
He had it set up solely as communication to our boat in moriches bay from our base in Shirley.
His idea was there but never really caught on since Mom didn't want to talk on it 
I had a lot of friends in town and we would talk deep into the night during the school week. NOBODY had a linear and only a few used a power mic. If someone got out better than someone else it was because there antenna was better or higher!
As long as I had it back in the garage on top of the bait freezer by Sat night I was ok. I tied a piece of twine to the coax end so I could pull the coax end up to my 2nd story bedroom window
A few early Lafayette tubers made it to my room as well but never really got out with 1-2 watts. No wonder they were given to us by a close friend/Ham who no longer wanted them.
Since my rebirth I started simple with a PC68LTW and quickly advanced to the GrantXL.
Since then in order:
Cobra 89GTL
Grant XL
Galaxy Pluto
Superstar 3900GHP
Magnum S9
Cobra148GTL
Superstar Grant
Lafayette 525
Lafayette Telstat 23
Magnum Delta Force
Ranger AR3300
Sommerkamp TS2000DX
...and I got my eye on a friends AR3500...shhhhh!
Hank CEF559 |
Vanillagorilla
Advanced Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 822
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 7:26 pm: |
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Oops..forgot my SBE Sidebander lll  ...my sideband ONLY rig (no AM mode)....sneak that in there somewhere between the Delta and AR.
Hank CEF559 |
Wildrat
Senior Member
Username: Wildrat
Post Number: 1015
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 2:15 pm: |
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A 1977 Cobra 19 and some ole trunk mount antenna, which I changed to a orange Francis whip. My friends and I were quite the hooligans back then, and glad to say not much has changed except radio equipment, age, and size.
WR |
Triplecguy
Intermediate Member
Username: Triplecguy
Post Number: 194
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:36 pm: |
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How about one of those Midland 40 channel, mini CB's that came with the little mag mount antenna at Western Auto for about $36 around 1992! Wasn't the best and didn't have any features, but me and my buddy thought we had the coolest things ever. We spent many a night with radio shenanigans and meeting other CB'ers from the 70's and early 80's who were getting back in to it. Now, Western Auto is a thing of the past just like those fun radio folks and those fun Friday and Saturday nights.
Dan |
Johnbrowning
New member
Username: Johnbrowning
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 4:56 pm: |
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Pace 123 23 Ch. radio that my grandfather gave me. It still had his CB liscense information on the radio if that tells you how long ago that was!! He drove for CF Consolidated Freight. |
Snowfire
Intermediate Member
Username: Snowfire
Post Number: 150
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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It was a GE 40ch handheld. |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 931
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 4:32 pm: |
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A mobile radio made by Bowman. It was muffled which made it difficult to be understood. It was better than a walkie talkie.
Mikefromms |
Bushwhacker1953
Junior Member
Username: Bushwhacker1953
Post Number: 17
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 2:12 pm: |
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Johnson 123A 23ch. |
Reddog355
Junior Member
Username: Reddog355
Post Number: 26
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 4:05 pm: |
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My dad took me to get my first base,it was a HyGain 8 base with ssb.Since the i have had many cobras,galaxys,rangers,2510,but currently use a Grant xl and galaxy 66.I have also had a Dak mark X with original double box and it had a very long roll of insructions and maybe schematics,i never unrolled it all the way. |
Ferd1605
Junior Member
Username: Ferd1605
Post Number: 25
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 3:20 am: |
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1st CB rig was a Aircastle , 23 chnl , built buy Courier .. old tube rig.. Gave it to a buddy ... he still has it , bet i could get it back ... Hummm |
Kb5lpa
Intermediate Member
Username: Kb5lpa
Post Number: 210
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 10:03 am: |
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My first cb was a TRC Navaho 30A with an 1/2 wave ground plane from Radio Shack as well. I also had a Cobra 19 which was a mini 23 channel rig. Both of these units are long gone although I wish I still had the TRC 30A for collection purposes.
My first ham rig was a Realistic HTX 100 with a Realistic mag mount cb antenna which I tuned for 10 meters. I still have both and they continue to work quite well.
73,
KB5LPA |
Test_bot
New member
Username: Test_bot
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 3:24 am: |
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TRC-85A HandHeld 3 Channel 5,14,30
Still got it, Mint Condition :> |
Sandbagger106
Member
Username: Sandbagger106
Post Number: 86
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 - 9:43 am: |
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Xtal 23 ch. $20.00 used, like new cond. with a mobile antenna. Gave the radio to a young kid who was interested in radio, but I still have the antenna. That was back in the late 70's, hard to believe that is 30 years ago. sb106 |
Sk1
Junior Member
Username: Sk1
Post Number: 19
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 5:18 pm: |
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Mine was a 6 channel Robyn don't remember the channels or the model number |
Cadilac
Intermediate Member
Username: Cadilac
Post Number: 176
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 7:17 pm: |
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Lets see. It was Christmans of 1984 and my first radio was a General Electric 40 channel help radio. Yes, it's that radio you plug in to a cigarette lighter. I started with a car antenna until my grandfather gave me his old starduster. It did well until I got a peaked up trc #30A.
CADILAC |
Bob_gipson
New member
Username: Bob_gipson
Post Number: 1
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 6:05 pm: |
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At the tender age of 11 I was introduced to the land of CB by my father an CW McCall. We had a midland 13-882c mobile in the car. For a base station we ran a Johnson messenger 250 with a turner plus 3 mike and a wilson 5/8 wave ground plane up about 30 feet. we had an old antique tube amp called a univox deluxe that put out about 350 watts ( used 4 6lq6 tubes.)We advanced to a SBE console II radio when the SSB bug bit. Used the same wilson ground plane,( it was a super antenna).
Today I use a uniden grant( very early phillipine model), Imaax 200 at 60 feet and a turner plus 2 ssb mike. |
Allan
Intermediate Member
Username: Allan
Post Number: 193
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 9:56 pm: |
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TRC-50 Mini-23..... |
Therealporkchop
Advanced Member
Username: Therealporkchop
Post Number: 913
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 11:32 pm: |
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Mine was a pile of sticks burning with a blanket...just kiddin' nobody else beat me to it so I had to do it.
I think my first radio was a kit when I was too young to remember. You couldn't talk on it, it was FM and a receiver only. It was kit thing that you put all these blocks in a certain order. They had components in them and you actually made a circuit to make these projects that were in a book that came with it. I can remember what it was called, but it was neat.
My first CB radio was when I first started driving a dump truck. It was a Mirage 44. I ended up and bought it for 100 bucks from the guy and kept it for a long time until I went stupid and sold it.
There has been a laundry list since then... |
Sniper
Junior Member
Username: Sniper
Post Number: 19
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 4:25 pm: |
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My first radio was a walkie talkie Sears I believe, 1964. First real radio Hallicrafters CB 7 with a Johnson hand mic and a speaking beacon antenna Around 1965. next was a lafayette 8 crystal chs. 23 tunable around 1967 same antenna. Then a lafayette Hb222 8 crystals 23 tunable with a turner +2 mic, around 1970 with a CLRII BASE Antenna. Next a radshak trc452 that was stolen from my car, that broke my heart, good 40 ch. radio. Then a krayco something 40 ch. worked ok.Next a radshak 415 mobile with an Antron magnetic antenna. Now have a trc 440 and a President Wasington with a A99 antenna, and my mobile is a trc474 still with the Antron mag antenna.I have a K40 antenna that I need to put into service. When I got the trc440 I used a long wire antenna and I was talking skip with it and swr was 1.2.1 I used a piece of coax to make it. Still have it for emergencies. Thats all I can remember of all my radios.I do have a working Royce 650 but I haven't used it. |
Truckerdon
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Username: Truckerdon
Post Number: 75
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 7:19 pm: |
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My First CB rig was Johnson Messenger 1, with 5 crystal. I had the old Ice cream cone mic, I then bought a Shure Power mic. My brother and I were still in School. We joined the Militia and he bought a Hallicrafter 23 channel and I then bought TRC (Radio Shack) With the money earned over the summer.
As mention we didn't have much money. We built this home brewed antenna. We mounted a 9 ft aluminum rod on a piece of wood. Nailed it to rafters of the house(Dad killed us). Strumg chicken wire as a ground plane. I'm not sure what the SWR was, But we sure did get alot of DX. From our Home in Kilbride,Ontario.
WE chatted with another base in Lively,Ontario. That base was north of Lake Michigan on the North shore. Today there so much noise. You couldn't do it with a radio day unless you had a beam.
Don CEF 336 |
Nobodyknows
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Username: Nobodyknows
Post Number: 158
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 - 12:48 am: |
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First rig was a Realistic trc-24... 23 ??? it was a 23 channel mobile. I'm not sure on the trc-24 now it's late lol. I bought it NEW on clearance at RS about the time the 40 channel rigs were rolling out. Had it as a base, hooked up to a power supply which i still have since 1975 ish. Also had a 1/2 wave base antenna. Good old aluminum!
I knew nothing about tuning up a radio back then and barely know much more now. It was all stock and i could talk from Santa Cruz, CA across the bay to Monterey, Ca... sometimes..
I remember when i got that first set up that skip was rolling hard, Daily static at about 9 pounds and it would get quiet at night. |
Mrhappy
Intermediate Member
Username: Mrhappy
Post Number: 219
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 - 6:36 pm: |
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My first rig was a 1972 W900 Kenworth, oh ya it had a 23 channel Midland in it. |
Rick330man
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Username: Rick330man
Post Number: 34
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 - 2:14 am: |
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First real rig was a Realistic Navaho TRC-30A 23 channel AM base station. These were real popular in the 70s. I had an Archer (Radio Shack) 1/2 wave ground plane base antenna and ran a Turner +3 base mic. This set up did the trick for me for years. |
Nlmadog
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Username: Nlmadog
Post Number: 68
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 6:37 pm: |
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Going way back,I think it was a Knight Kit CB,about 1967,after that a Regency Imperial and then after selling everything I owned a brand new Browning Golden Eagle Mark II.That rig was about $ 500.00 in 1969 money I was 16 at the time.Still have the Mark II in the orginal boxes. |
Brewdirect
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Username: Brewdirect
Post Number: 193
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 4:41 pm: |
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A used Courier Spartan 40 Channel PLL in 1989
Actually a very good SSB radio - had it for 10 years.
Loved the mic, had the big red button on the side. |
Sarge
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Username: Sarge
Post Number: 35
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 11:08 am: |
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Discounting the 2-channel, 100 mW walkie-talkie I started out with, my first "real" CB radio was a Realistic TRC-11. It was a 6-channel, crystal controlled mobile radio about the size of a paperback book (or roughly the same size as an Uniden PRO-510). It came with one pair of crystals for CH 11 (the calling channel). I added crystals until had channels 3,9,11,14,19,21. This gave me emergency channel 9, the truckers channel 19, and channels used by the "locals" in two nearby towns (3 & 21). The box and the cover of the owners manual clearly stated "5-watts!" but that was the classic Radio Shack lie. It was actually 5-watts input to the final amplifier stage, an obsolete method of measuring power with solid-state radios. Buried inside the manual on the specifications page it truthfully listed the output power as "2.8-watts nominal". Made the big step up to a 4-watt output, 23-channel mobile radio with the purchase of a Royce 1-610 with the "huge" 5/8-inch tall red LED display. The Royce was fully synthesized, using a bank of 14 internal crystals to generate all 23 transmit and receive frequencies. Very high-tech! Used it as a mobile as well as a base station on a 12-volt power supply and an indoor Shakespeare 6-ft CB marine antenna (no ground plane antenna). Quickly upgraded to an outside Shakespeare Big Stick antenna. Those were the days... |
Chad
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Username: Chad
Post Number: 1261
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 9:16 am: |
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Archer space patrol Walkie Talkie, circa 1977
Chad
CEF 433
HAM 212
not an ego thing, just keepin' the mods happy
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Bruce
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Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4304
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 12:00 pm: |
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Chad ....
MEMORIES....
Of knight kits heath kits and regen HT's
Yep space patrol classic toys ... |
Rfchallenged
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Username: Rfchallenged
Post Number: 7
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 10:57 am: |
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first real rig was a refurbished Hallicrafters 5ch mobile run off a car battery into a 1/4 wave ground plane on 20 ft of galvanized pipe. Then upgraded to a Lafayette Comstat23 with a Shure 444t mic into a Hy-Gain Goldenrod... and probably 25 more radios after that... variety is the spice! |
Camkuhns
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Username: Camkuhns
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 10:55 am: |
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My first rig was a Ross CB 23 channel, forget the model number. It was purchased at the time the 40 channel models were coming out. Afew years after, I purchased a Cobra 29LTD and a couple of years after that, a Cobra 148GTL. |
Guitar_199
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Username: Guitar_199
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 2:41 pm: |
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My first was a JC Penney Pinto 23 Channel ... I think the 6213. |
Penrider
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Username: Penrider
Post Number: 2
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 12:02 am: |
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first was a stock cobra 29w/twin francis sticks...then 148 w/echo same antennas...then 2970w/102"...now 2970 as my base with solarcon 99/gpk at 40-ish feet |
Keithinatlanta
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Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 792
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 2:32 pm: |
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Boys, it is real simple: the best first radio for your CB pleasure was: drum roll please......
Lafayette HB 525 23 channel mobile radio!!
Keith in Atlanta |
Moderator1516
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Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 404
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 7:15 pm: |
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my first was a royce mobile 1-601
what a thrill to get on the air the first time after waiting for my license to come still remember my call letters kaek-9252
moderator1516
cef 139
cvc 12
ham 147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Moderator636
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Username: Moderator636
Post Number: 17
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 7:33 pm: |
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now I know there has to be some of you on here old enough to have started out with a string tied between 2 tin cans.
BTW, My first radio was a cobra 19 when I started trucking back in 85
Jeff
Moderator636
CEF636
CVC68
"Enter other numbers here"
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City_slicker
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Username: City_slicker
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 7:48 pm: |
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Wow we are telling our age here.My first one out of the box was a Sharp of some kind in 1973 and came with an app to send to the fcc for a cb lic. Shakespeare antennas were the rage. Living and trucking in Ks,you were lucky to find another trucker to talk to as not to many OTR were on the road then.Next ,I had a used Courier and a Royce.All in all,I think the new radios are much better. |
Billd3
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Username: Billd3
Post Number: 13
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 - 9:37 pm: |
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My first radio was a Pearce Simpson Tomcat 23 channel given to me by my grandfather 24 years ago. I purchased an Avanti Saturn plane as my first base antenna. I had a Signal Kicker antenna on the car. I of course had a quick disconnect on the radio so I could move it to and from the car in just a few seconds. I believe that that old radio is still in my parents attic. I'll have to look it up next time I'm down there. |
Southerncross
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Username: Southerncross
Post Number: 2
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 5:03 am: |
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My first mobile was a Pace Sidetalk 1000M, and my first base was a Craig L201. Both radios I got from yard sales when I was around 11 years old. My parents let me put up a 7/8 groundplane on the garage, but had to take it down and put on a Shakespeare big stick, when it was found that the groundplane was less than kind to the garage roof esp. in high winds. |
Fusebreaker
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Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 266
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 8:17 pm: |
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cobra 29 120 channel mod ,echo,talkback 2sc1969 final got uniden grant same day |
Carolinagold
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Username: Carolinagold
Post Number: 60
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 10:45 pm: |
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can't remember the model# but it was 23 channel cobra with ssb and it had 3way phono plug for the mike got it from my dad @ age 10 and he bought it new (way back when) and still worked till lightning got it a few years back |
Papajohn
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Username: Papajohn
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 11:13 am: |
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First Rig was a 23 channel JC Penny Pinto, early 1977 I think?
Second was a Midland 13-892 which I used as a base radio with a Turner +3B mic.
Still have both radios, although they've gathered lots of dust over the past 25 years or so.
Made lots of contacts on the Midland and have many QSL cards and still have my log book with all my SSB contacts from back in the day. |
Romstar
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Username: Romstar
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 12:10 am: |
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First two radios I ever had my hands on were a RadioShack TRC-11 and a Pierce-Simpson Simba SSB. The TRC-11 was a small crystal controlled multi channel mobile. Great little talker on a set of paired Shakespear antennas.
That Simba was in constant use since the day my grandfather bought it. Still in use today, still fed into an A-99 about 35-40 feet in the air. Some sort of additional directional ground kit on the antenna though. Since I'm not near that radio, I can't tell you what it is exactly.
That Simba still sounds hot, even after all these years. Most of the "action" (if you can call it that anymore) around here is on the lower AM channels anyway for 11 meter.
A lot of the new guys still ask what I am using because it sounds so darn good. Sometimes, newer just ain't better.
Romstar |
Wendy
Intermediate Member
Username: Wendy
Post Number: 131
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:45 pm: |
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my first radio was a Royce am cb base station. What a radio!
Wendy
Whitedove/ unit 54
CEF#350
CEF HAM#232
CVC#33
KI4TCX
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Twixer
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Username: Twixer
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 5:24 pm: |
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I was a Lafayette man back in the 60s. A Telsat23 on base and a HB-20-C in the mobile. The mobile was a 66 GTO tri-power with a 102" whip mounted on the rear deck...mercy |
Dale
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Username: Dale
Post Number: 665
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 8:44 am: |
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i had a realistic hh 3 channel.it had chrystals in it.for the channels one of the channels was
ch.14.only one i remember was the one i used.
all it had for channel changing was a a,b,c selector switch.it had the long seel telescopic antenna on it also |
Nightshift
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Username: Nightshift
Post Number: 1
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 - 1:03 pm: |
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My first was a cobra 85, tug8 d104, and a superpenatrator ant. this was in 1970 or 71. |
Brain_damage
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Username: Brain_damage
Post Number: 50
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 2:46 pm: |
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mine was a ge model 3-5813b which i still have and it works just as good as the day i got it at a yard sale back in 1979 same mic also a k40 very loud audio,its a keeper |
Tomcatinva
Intermediate Member
Username: Tomcatinva
Post Number: 108
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 1:45 pm: |
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Ok I had to go out and find a picture of it as I didn't remember the model number but unbeliveably I found a picture of it. I bought it from a friend of mine for $20 back in the 70's... Midland 13-830 am mode only. Hey I had to start somewhere I guess. And from there my hobbies got more expensive
TomCat CEF217
TomCat in VA
CEF217
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Newoperator
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Username: Newoperator
Post Number: 2
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 12:23 am: |
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mine was a trc 474 navaho radio shack witht he digital input bad run to a antron 99 me and my bro got it when i was 7 been on and off the radio for years ;) |
Skywalker975
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Username: Skywalker975
Post Number: 36
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 1:23 am: |
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My First Radio Was A Craig 23 Channel Base Couldnt Talk Cause When My Uncle Gave It To Me It Didnt Have A Mic (Tight Whad)LOL! And Couldnt Find Anyone That Had one That Would Work On It. Some Kind Of Fiberglass Mirror Mount Antenna. This Was Back In The Mid 90s If I Remember Right. Today I Use (Base) Cobra 139 XLR (Car)RCI 2950 w/ Wilson 5000 (Van) Galaxy DX99V w/ Wilson 5000 |
Vdnovach
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Username: Vdnovach
Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 2:10 pm: |
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My first was a Radio Shack SSB CB with one fo those cheap magnet mount Antennas they had. Lasted for a month before I bought A Uniden Grant XL and a 102" whip. Had it until my ex-wife stole it when she left me. Now I use a Galaxy DX 959 with a Wilson 5000 trucker antenna on a Arizona Rocky Road Antenna Mount.
The Vampyre's blood flows cold through the heart but warm against the embrace- V.D. Novach
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Don_johnson
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Username: Don_johnson
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 5:09 pm: |
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My first rig was a realistic trc-52 mobile on a 12 volt power supply with a Radio Shack 1/2 wave base antenna (it was my dads old rig when he was a trucker and he bought a new cobra). Later I traded a friend it and $25 bucks for a trc 30a base(also a good radio). When I was in high school I bought a President Zachary T base, an Astro Plane antenna and the good old rg-8 big coax. A friend talked me into a elkin 6 tuber. I talked all over the place on that radio and I still have the radio today. I have also had all kinds of radios in between, Cobra's, Royce, Midland, GE, Tram, Gemtronics, T-Beary and a Galaxy Saturn. I still like the President line (Grant & Madison) the best, but I will always keep that old Zachary T if nothing else just for the memories. |
