The CB Radio

[rmptr]

Without the CB radio, so many unsung philosophers of the highway would have been unable to share pearls with the rest of us, trapped at a desk in our cubby.

 

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[stoney56]

10-4. Started using one back in the mid-60's. Was a Johnson Messenger III. 12 channel crystal controlled and wattage tweaked.

 

[rmptr]

Hey! That must be an old one!

I once had a Messenger 123... the 23ch am... and it was OK. No mod, though.
The Cobra SSB rigs had already come out by the time I had the Johnson.
I sure did want one of those. Never happened.

Now, might be a good time to have at least a couple nicely operational CB rigs on hand.

I've gotten very good service out of the RS HTX-202, also. Very good entry level ham radio.

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rmptr

 

[truckinbutch]

Without the CB radio, so many unsung philosophers of the highway would have been unable to share pearls with the rest of us, trapped at a desk in our cubby.

I really hope that was tongue in cheek cynicism . If not , you have never had to live with it 24/7 for over 20 years like I have as a working tool and watch it deteriorate from a great working tool to a trash medium .

 

[whitt459]

i was in to it big time in the early 70s, still had to take a test to get a license cost $5.00 . had a cobra cam 88 base that would dead key 85 watts hooked up to a 500 bi-leanner(spelling) + an astatic pdl II beams on a 100 ft break-over tower, it would really get out, then the sunspots came along and killed all the reception so most of us got out of the business. whitt459

 

[stoney56]

Yeah back then it was no problem to straight talk up to 75 miles or so-no skip. Would talk to dad on the way back from Edmond (north side of Okla. City) from the base unit. We lived on the Kans/Okla. line basically. Then later the FCC jumped in with the 4 watt limit.

 

[rmptr]

Ha! Ha!

Yah, I was pickin' on yah, Butch...

Let's put it this way... I've run a 5x4, 5x3, 4x4 (deep under & progressive), 10 speed, 13 speed,
and a whole flock of different power plants, but prefer Cummins, or CAT (if I could afford one!)

When was the last time you ran a Joe-dog?

I never did long-haul... local freight and heavy construction.

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rmptr

 

[truckinbutch]

Ha! Ha!

Yah, I was pickin' on yah, Butch...

Let's put it this way... I've run a 5x4, 5x3, 4x4 (deep under & progressive), 10 speed, 13 speed,
and a whole flock of different power plants, but prefer Cummins, or CAT (if I could afford one!)

When was the last time you ran a Joe-dog?

I never did long-haul... local freight and heavy construction.

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rmptr

You missed the real fun with a PIE 4x4 manual with a 2 speed Browning behind a pumped up Cummings . Took a while to wind up . Once the tar strips stopped thumping under the tires you were in the 'go directly to jail ' speed range .

 

[Minstrel]

Loved my CB---Browning Golden Eagle base station w/D104 mike, Super Magnum GP for standby, Stack 3 beams on a 75 foot tower, Ham M rotor. Loved the "ping" whenever I keyed the mike, and with the beams could reach out and talk. Had a cheapee Midland mobile unit with a power mike for around the local area. Paid my $5.00 and my handle was "Ye Old Coin Collector" and license was KRM1870. That was over 39 yrs ago.
Minstrel

 

[rmptr]

I remember that.... the Browning base station! a friend had one of those.. Nice radio.

I think I got a D-104 lollipop mike out in the garage... somewhere!
Just reached over and grabbed another... thought it might be a Turner, but it's a Yaesu.

Way back then I did have a beam antenna... it was a quad 2 element beam.
No rotator, and I nailed a couple long 2x4's together to get it up.
It was BIG!
Even at legal power I could TALK!
Couldn't hear off the sides of it and many people were upset at me because I talked when I had something to say... walked all over a lot of people, I guess!
They thought I was rude and running lots of power.
I just never knew they were there!
Then I got a 175amp linear.

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rmptr

 

[nova treasure]

I use to be big in Cbing myself.I met alot of fine people on the radio and talked to people all over through skip shooting. I've had many radios as i use to buy out alot of people when they would get tired of it or have stuff set back. I use to be amazed at all the different cb handles. i just wonder how many now use there handles as screen names on the internet.
I still have quite abit of stuff here boxed up,including Galaxy, Cobra,Ranger radios,Texas star, Super Star,Eagle, Glenn,palomar,robin linears,watt meters,e.t.c.

I used to have cookouts for all the local people,at least the one's with respect for one another,it was some fun times.

Nova Treasure

 

[Lowbatts]

A couple blocks south of the Elgin cashbox here and finally went out and got a cheapie at wally world to see who's talking what these days. Hadn't had one since the '70's myself. Nice little old Royce.

Yeah we was entertained for a bit but it's gone the way of the bench pile in the garage.

Now ya got me motivated to go hook it up again...

 

[johnnycat]

Man that's a long time ago. I had a Midland with a, "Palomar" ??, 50 watt kicker. My handle was, "Underdog". And glad to report that I won the, "Bucket Mouth" of the week award from our local CB club once.

 

[mojjax]

I always liked this song !

 

[greydigger]

10-4 Rubber Duck,
The Hobo sends you 73's.

Big park on the Oregon/Washington border used to have a bunch of folks flying RC Planes until the illegal CBers with 100+ watt linear amps drove by on I-5 and the splatter signals sent costly planes on to never never land.

Met some nice folks on CB. Still have a couple for OTH use. Fine for local, but got into HAM for serious work.

"Keep the shiney side up and the dirty side down".

Grey

 

[Mental Granny]

Ok so now I want ours back again real bad! I even use to have a small hand held till it was stolen, it was alot of fun met great folks and saved me a couple of times! And the regular unit got me back to where I was staying once, with the help of a police man who was listening . And a trucker guiding me once in a rain storm!

 

[warsawdaddy]

Ok,yeah we got a cb in the hemi.A magna 9,dual antennaes,think the boy paid about $400 for it and then had it tweaked.I don't know what all it will do but I know I have talked as far as 45mi.Not many can hear or talk back that far,but it has certainly come in handy several times and I do enjoy it.

 

[rmptr]

A Palomar linear amp just came up for sale in the paper it's a 300w unit but doesn't work Fan only.
I think it might need a power supply to drive the big tubes?
Haven't looked at it..

 

[LJHanley06]

I still have my Restricted Radiotelephone Operators license.

 

[airborne1092]

...is great and the spectrum should be expanded.

Always have a communications PACE

Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency

P: Cell phone
A: FRS Radio
C: CB radio
E: A phone card or a Dollar, in change