How Many of You People Had One of These and Do you Still Have The Original?

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Posted: 4/18/2015 2:54:46 PM EDT

I found this while going through my old licenses. I can't remember what year they stopped issuing these CB licenses but I got my Novice ticket around 79 and for some reason kept this.
Jim

Posted: 4/18/2015 3:24:20 PM EDT

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Yep, I had one. Probably around the '75-'77 time frame. Don't have a clue where it went, though.

Posted: 4/18/2015 3:44:17 PM EDT

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The company I worked for (Hammarlund's Western NC plant) required us to get them in '62 when they started making the CB-23. We had a lot of fun field testing on them. Cycle 19 (sigh) was winding down, but good 11 Meter propagation was still possible. My apartment was on the Northwest side of a mountain and I skipped into Alaska using just a horizontal dipole.

Posted: 4/18/2015 4:32:42 PM EDT

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The company I worked for (Hammarlund's Western NC plant) required us to get them in '62 when they started making the CB-23. We had a lot of fun field testing on them. Cycle 19 (sigh) was winding down, but good 11 Meter propagation was still possible. My apartment was on the Northwest side of a mountain and I skipped into Alaska using just a horizontal dipole.

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That is a great looking Hammarlund, my first CB was a Johnson Viking.

Posted: 4/18/2015 5:38:50 PM EDT

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KKI8988

Have no clue where the license is (loooonnng gone). I got mine back in '73

Posted: 4/18/2015 5:49:06 PM EDT

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KBA6735 checkin in..

It was a lotta fun before it got totally ignorant..

Posted: 4/18/2015 5:54:48 PM EDT

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I've been a ham for 25+ years but have never used a CB radio until last year. I talked to a guy 3 miles away! Wow!

That's about it. I have no interest to use CB radio again but will keep it, just in case.

Posted: 4/18/2015 6:09:41 PM EDT

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I've been a ham for 25+ years but have never used a CB radio until last year. I talked to a guy 3 miles away! Wow!

That's about it. I have no interest to use CB radio again but will keep it, just in case.

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Did you send him a QSL card?

Posted: 4/18/2015 7:33:32 PM EDT

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Did you send him a QSL card?

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I've been a ham for 25+ years but have never used a CB radio until last year. I talked to a guy 3 miles away! Wow!

That's about it. I have no interest to use CB radio again but will keep it, just in case.

Did you send him a QSL card?

He was running a mobile radio with a "super antenna". He said ham radio is too regulated and he can hear anybody a ham radio can. Whatever that means. I asked him of he worked any DX. He said he talked to other CBers 15-20 miles away with his amazing, bumper mounted antenna. He paid a local CB shop to install his antenna and to tune his radio.
This one contact was enough for me to loose interest. To be honest, I can't even understand what half of them are saying on CB channels. A 2 meter, 50W mobile ham radio with a decent external antenna can provide 10 times greater coverage than a "tuned" CB with a "super antenna. I'm not even mentioning a kilowatt HF rig with a Yagi.

Posted: 4/18/2015 8:47:22 PM EDT

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Yep I had one too KEK4966 if I remember correctly. Circa. late '69 early '70. Radio was a Johnson Messenger 23 with a Antenna Specialist base load permanent mount in the roof of my VW van! Boy did that van see a LOT of different radios to include a Bearcat 23C base rig that was feeding a pair of phased Francis fiberglass whips. Oh did I forget to mention the D&L products 250w amp. Yeah I was working DX even mobile!!
Those were the bad old days! Still have a newer Cobra 25 NW LTD with a Francis short whip on a mag mount that has never been used. It serves as another tool in the box if needed.

Posted: 4/18/2015 8:51:36 PM EDT

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KJD6933 here. Got it in 1976 IIRC.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:40:10 PM EDT

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I had one for R/C model flying. I do not remember my call. The paper license is long gone.

Posted: 4/18/2015 11:44:45 PM EDT

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KAYB0084. The paper may be in a box in storage.
My wife says I'm a packrat.
Last CB I had was stolen about 7 years ago.

Posted: 4/19/2015 12:12:26 AM EDT

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KAYD6537 was Dad's. Being family we were covered under it at the time. Dad was a long haul trucker so we always ran CB's in the cars from the 70's until recently. I took my last one out of the Jeep i sold in 2010. They come in handy on the trails back before i got my ham ticket and for long trips to gather traffic and local info.

I may throw mine in the shack just to have another tool in the box.

Posted: 4/19/2015 1:02:00 PM EDT

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Had one back in the day. Long forgotten the call and I'm sure the license got tossed.

Every time I think I ought to put a CB in the shack as another tool all I have to do is spin the ham rig VFO down to the 11m band and listen for a short while.

Similarly I still have my Restricted Radiotelephone Operating Permit for operating aircraft radios I got in 1975. No call was issued as the aircraft registration was the call. One time fee and a lifetime license. Even then it appeared to be nothing more than a revenue generation scheme. The permit is still in effect. http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/index.htm?job=rr

Posted: 4/19/2015 1:11:39 PM EDT

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I just happen to have one of those, myself.

Posted: 4/19/2015 5:32:05 PM EDT

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Was 1975, I was KBH 2596, was 15 years old.
Most people did not ID, once in awhile a 'very official voice' would broadcast that they were an FCC Mobile Task Force homing in on unlicensed 'operators'.
Channels were quiet for awhile. LOL.

Posted: 4/19/2015 8:25:34 PM EDT

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I remember the mid '60s when the rumor would float that a FCC truck was in town, the whole band would just shut down. The thought was that most CB conversations were illegal since they were not about anything important.

By the mid '70s I don't think anybody cared about any of that anymore. We were getting licenses and renewing them but the handwriting was already on the wall, that there was little cause to be concerned about enforcement.

My dad was KRC2060 but went pretty much outlaw with linears and so on and later became KAOV1884, I was KRO1646. I never violated any of the rules, I want to make that clear.

Posted: 4/20/2015 12:37:09 AM EDT

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Still have mine - KBNL6280 - issued in the mid 1970's.

Was going through some of my dad's things this past week and came upon his original CB permit dated 1963, and his Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit dated 1964. Glad to have them...

Posted: 4/20/2015 1:12:33 AM EDT

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http://forums.radioreference.com/cb-radio-forum/278586-remember-your-cb-radio-call-sign.html

specifically:
http://forums.radioreference.com/cb-radio-forum/278586-remember-your-cb-radio-call-sign.html#post2076650

Wonder it there is an FCC database listing all the old CB call signs, locations and names? That would sure bring back a lot of memories.

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Not at the FCC. Both a phone call and and FOI request received the same responce, "All of those records have been destroyed."

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ar-jedi

Posted: 4/20/2015 6:56:49 AM EDT

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I still have the original copy of my own license around here someplace. I think I got it in '79 or '80...KZX-2231

Posted: 4/20/2015 7:35:16 PM EDT

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Restricted Radiotelephone in 1973 (got rid of it when they got rid of the requirement) or so when I started flying, CB in 1975 or so (KAER2734 IIRC, wife was KACH0484 IIRC), running a Cobra 29 between Jacksonville and south of Melbourne, living in Daytona Beach. Currently you can call me KJ4KBD, hardly on, need to get my General

Posted: 4/20/2015 7:45:13 PM EDT

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KBMU7789 was issued to me back in the late 70's.

Sadly I do not have the license anymore.

Posted: 4/22/2015 3:03:57 PM EDT

[#23]

KYH 5138 many moons ago

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