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CB License
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My call from about 1977/78 started with KBIH. The license application came in the box with a 5 watt 6 channel walkie talkie.
Grogan - a Uniden Washington and PDL2 was a nice setup.
By 80 I had a Madison with an Expander 500 mike. But for an antenna had an AstroPlane. Never got a beam in the air for 11m.
Grogan - a Uniden Washington and PDL2 was a nice setup.
By 80 I had a Madison with an Expander 500 mike. But for an antenna had an AstroPlane. Never got a beam in the air for 11m.
Ran a PDL2 at 65' and a Shakespeare Big Stick. Radio in those days was a Cobra 135xlr that was later replaced with an ICOM 720a. I would love to find a PDL2 NIB somewhere.
Finding old CB Licenses
I don't know where to find but... In 1962 my dad got me a CB license KFF0805 and I used to talk with a guy he worked with 13W1222, which was one of the first CB licenses. Later, in about 1977 I got my own license KAIC( )356. Also had another for a business I had but lost it when NSA and FCC got upset at my out of band technology research!
I don't know where to find but... In 1962 my dad got me a CB license KFF0805 and I used to talk with a guy he worked with 13W1222, which was one of the first CB licenses. Later, in about 1977 I got my own license KAIC( )356. Also had another for a business I had but lost it when NSA and FCC got upset at my out of band technology research!
KGE-8997. Had to pay 20 or 25$, fill out an FCC form, then mail it to the FCC and wait. Once the license came back, then the store would sell you a radio.
Man those were the days!
Man those were the days!
Davenport, Ia 1959-1960
Dad's 18Q1810
Dale's 18Q0439
DR.Chance 18W9663
we had the Johnson / Viking messengers with 5 crystals
Dad's 18Q1810
Dale's 18Q0439
DR.Chance 18W9663
we had the Johnson / Viking messengers with 5 crystals
I want to know what kind of commie retail store you were buying CBs from. You had to have a license to operate not to buy, same as amateur radio. Anyone could buy a ham radio without a license so why was you local CB store holding you hostage for a license? Makes no sense to me. Were they required to have a license to buy the radios from the manufacturers?
Although you may have been put through that it was not the law by any means.
Interesting trip down memory lane.
We were KJH 1739. I remember it well.
We got tired of paying the marine VHF telephone operator $2.25 a minute, so we hooked up a Realistic Navaho TRC-30A with a Turner +3 base mic and a 1/2 wave Radio Shack base antenna in the house. We had a 23 channel Hi Gain mobile in the boat. The radios soon paid for themselves.
I don't remember why, but we later acquired a 2nd license. It was a 4 X 4.
We were KJH 1739. I remember it well.
We got tired of paying the marine VHF telephone operator $2.25 a minute, so we hooked up a Realistic Navaho TRC-30A with a Turner +3 base mic and a 1/2 wave Radio Shack base antenna in the house. We had a 23 channel Hi Gain mobile in the boat. The radios soon paid for themselves.
I don't remember why, but we later acquired a 2nd license. It was a 4 X 4.
Jeez, lets see here--that was back in '62, had a new Lafayette he-20c, and my call sign was KIC 5974 which is pretty amazing for me to recall since I have trouble remembering what I did 2 minutes ago, much less over a half century ago. I'm decomposing as I sit here--"Life begins at 40"--yeah, RIGHT! I'm still trying to find the person who came up with that one, 'cause I have a size 12ee shoe I wanna bury right where the sun don't shine to thank him for that one (that's if I can still raise my leg that high without pulling a damned groin muscle or something !)
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KAVI-8973 I had been running CB since 1968 and one employer would not let us mount radios in their vehicles unless we had a license back in 1976.
They had the temporary license where you could take K and put it in front of your initials and your zip code. As long as you had mailed in your application with a small fee you were good to go. I got razzed pretty badly by all of my outlaw buddies for going legit.
The invention and use of handles was back in the 60's. If you were a outlaw cb'er you and your friends took "Handles" so you would know who you were talking with. Most would not reply to anybody with a call sign if they did not know who they were. "Uncle Charlie" would get stirred up by some knot head who was running huge linear and over modulating.
They had the temporary license where you could take K and put it in front of your initials and your zip code. As long as you had mailed in your application with a small fee you were good to go. I got razzed pretty badly by all of my outlaw buddies for going legit.
The invention and use of handles was back in the 60's. If you were a outlaw cb'er you and your friends took "Handles" so you would know who you were talking with. Most would not reply to anybody with a call sign if they did not know who they were. "Uncle Charlie" would get stirred up by some knot head who was running huge linear and over modulating.
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