Who 'members the CB radio daze?

Oh yeah, I remember the CB craziness. I was in high school and worked afternoons and weekends at a store in my small midwest town that sold and installed CBs, home (base?) units, TV antennas, CB antennas and installed the towers.

My first CB was an under-dash 40 channel Motorola brand. Next came what was then a very expensive IN-dash AM/FM/40 Channel CB "combo" made by Panasonic. Had a 60" whip antenna trunk mounted on my way cool '71 Pontiac Grand Prix.

I spent 3 summers climbing on roofs putting up antennas and installing the 30, 40 or 50-foot high home towers.

Good times and fond memories for sure.
 
KJC-1213/ 'Duckhunter'. Started with a 6 channel Realistic (Radio Shack) that my Dad and I would use on trips from NC out to see grandparents in Texas. That was about 1971 or so. Really got into it and still have a CB in my huntin' Jeep.
Alot of the hunting crowd now is using VHF Marine radios since they put out 25w instead of the puny 4 or 5 that CB's do.
Don't think they're worried about the legal status of it - never heard of anyone getting in trouble for it.
I have a VHF Marine in my Jeep also, but the Jeep stays at the coast and I use it to keep up with folks on the water.
 
KAXI-4522, got my license in '79. Ran a Royce mobile in my pickup with dual mid-load gutter mount antenna's and a 50W linear amp.

I used to mount a CB in my patrol car in the '90's but I quit doing that by 9 eleven.

The only time I use one now is on my Harley. We still use them for bike to bike communications when group riding. The Harley radios are low wattage and have a range of a mile or so but they get the job at hand done just fine.
 
Dang, were none of yall into guns back then? I was "Flintlock" KATA9238. Was teaching night school for a while and a CB antenna was just an open invitation for someone to break out a window or jimmy the door. Went to a magnetic mount but it was so much trouble to take it off and hide it that I finally just quit running one.
Larry
 
First handle was Crazy Horse then someone else came on and took it so I changed it to Walking Stick Man. KCJ 5087. Matter of fact all the foul mouths and everyone else trying to talk over everyone else is what finally inspired me to get some help w/the code and get my ham ticket.
 
Probably a bear related name like Griz or pokey smokey at first. Mine did not matter, my wife likes M&M candy, I bought her those silly M&M's dispensers that looked like baseballs and such.

Naive and innocently she chose M&M as her handle. I guess times were different then, I didn't charge for a few nose jobs I did. I started using nose job as my handle. After guys found out M&M was married to Nose job they took their melting comments else where.
 
In the early 70's I used to have a CB in my patrol car. It came in handy on long night watches to ratchet jaw with the truckers who passed through regularly and to chat with other officers to get around the radio discipline of our department car-to car channel on the police radio. Also had a Navaho base station with a Turner +2 power mike, ground plane and beam antennas at home.

"You got KFF4674, Centurian down and on the stood by."
 
I'm the dud, made it through life without a CB radio, 8 track tape player, or cassette deck in my vehicles.

I do have a Pioneer Quadraphonic 4 channel amplifier stereo from 1973 when I was in Thailand. It still works, but has a CD player connected now, no more reel to reel tapes.
 
KDD-3576 / C3 back then and Class III today.

I finally upgraded to dual full whip 102" antennae with a SSB (Presidential) and variable wattage linear amp (Max 250 wattage output) in the '81 Bronco around 1983-84. I could walk all over just about anyone from Atlanta to NOLA to StL to Dallas. And yes, I was running a dual battery setup with an upgraded output alternator. Upgraded to dual K-40 Antennae around 1985? (Don't remember the year).

I still have a Cobra 25LTD mounted in the glove box and 50 Watt L.A. hooked to a single K-40 of the every day driver truck but honestly haven't turned either on in YEARS.

Class III
 
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My first was a five chanel white face Johnson. The handle was "Cat House Mouse." It had tubes and took up about half of the floor space in my pickup. I had a 102 whip ant. with the raingutter clip to hold it down until I wanted to talk on it. I was in high school at the time and got it mostly to use while dog hunting deer. I found that with a 100 amp booster I could sometimes talk up to 100 miles away if somebody else had the same. If I keyed up next to a truck driver on the highway I could see them grab their ears.

One of the locals was insane about this stuff. He had a big tower located on the highest hill in the area connected to his base and a gas generator in the back of a pickup running his mobile. Got busted by the FCC more than once. His base was so powerful that it interupted my FIL's TV. Someone mysteriously shot up his tower and transmitter late one night.
 
Break 1-9! How bout some 411 on that east bound Chicken Coop on Double Dime Highway?
The Chicken Coop is dirty breaker.
That's a 10-4 driver, think I'll stop in at the choke n' puke and get my bubble trouble looked at while I read my comic book, get a lil' motion lotion, and have a glass of Colorado Kool-Aid.
That's big 10-4 driver. You got a couple Organ Donors on your donkey they're on the floor and lookin for more.
10-4 driver. Smile and comb your hair for that Driving Award at the 29 stick.
That's a negative driver I'm Starvin the Bears today.
That's a big 10-4. We'll catch you on the flip flop Mud Puppy out.

Can any translate that conversation???

Some other CB words anyone know?

Chicken Choker.
Dream Weaver.
Four Wheeler.
Cheese Wagon.
Draggin Wagon.
Greasy side up.
Weight Watcher.
Fifty Dollar Lane.
B Town.
Cigar City.
Trading Stamps.
Capital J.
Glory Card.
Heater.
Loot Limo.
Beaver Bait.
Gallon.
 
I got one out of self-defense. My job required a LOT of Houston driving and I found it to be a good tool.
Shocker !
I still have one and when I can figger out how to put it in the Mustang, I will do it.
Took a wanderlust about 4/5 years ago--for about three weeks. The CB got me back in a frame of mind I had not visited for a loooong time.
Godd visiting with folks while driving the black top.
Blessings
 
While I still have my old CB radio somewhere, it has not been used in years. However, I use the built-in one on my Harley Ultra Classic when ever we go on trips. Most of the guys I ride with have similar models also equipped with a CB and it is a very useful way to keep the group together while on the highway. I usually pick an obscure empty channel so that our group is usually the only ones on it at the time.
 
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