Amateur Radio Operators

[Old_Me]

How many remember back when you bought a CB radio, you could get a call sign from the FCC for it, my dad had one but I can’t remember his call sign, that’s when CB and ham radio was very popular

i recall my FCC call sign......KPP-2447

i never used it, i even framed the "license" but i do not think i still have it....but, if i can find it..??

i'll gladly post it.

but too, gone are the days of "professional talk" on channel 19 when i drove coast to coast.

 

[Old_Me]

That's a big 10-4, Good Buddy! I was in a CB club in the 60's in high school. My call sign was Shotgun. (Go figure). The highlight was being on tornado watch during stormy weather.

In the early 70's we were getting a rash of reports of stolen CB radios from cars. We got a CB out of the property room and installed it in an old Chrysler Inperial and put one of those big orange whip antennas on the bumper as bait. We staked it out and arrested a half dozen or so different crooks stealing the same radio over one weekend. The CB thefts were crazy back then.

so were Spark-0-Matic, 8 track tape players, and FM converters.....lol

 

[Old_Me]

10 meter is fun, but you will need a general class license to get the most from it

if i recall, i had a Ranger..?? 10 meter, but the cb shop did some internal work, so it became a cb radio.....but the dang frequency numbers showed rather than say...19

looked much like this...just not as expensive way back then

 

[HayesGreener]

So, you were a “bear in the weeds” at times…..

You know what they say about bears in the woods....