HAM/CB operators ... how old are you?

[Klondike Mike]

... just curious.

 

[Wire Weasel]

 

[FlyBoy50]

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I hate to admit it, We tried that ! LOL

 

[Jim5570091]

53 myself. Moved to Ider Alabama with no phone lines in the area. So I made CB my main source of communication in the early 90’s. Reconnected with my Uncle AKA buzzard. And reignited my hobby. Channel 31 is the local channel here in north Alabama and southern middle Tennessee. 73’s cheers 297 RED DOG north Alabama!

 

[Klondike Mike]

Thousands of eyeballs on this and lack of participation. A microcosm of society I guess. Thanks to those who have participated so far.

 

[2charlietango216]

67 years young.

 

[AudioShockwav]

"I had a Doctor's appointment Friday".......

Yep

About right.

 

[FlyBoy50]

"I had a Doctor's appointment Friday".......

Yep

About right.
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LOL Isn't that the truth !

 

[Klondike Mike]

bump

 

[Klondike Mike]

This thread will never die until the last one of us log's in.

 

[VaHam]

67. Feel like 47. Licensed in 1973.

 

[barefootindian]

I hope to be, reach 64 this July coming. Got into cb around the mid 1970's with a President Andrew J 40 am non ssb cb and a transformer and a magnetic antenna that I bought from a neighbour.Great fun and an amazing social club that had lots of folks of all ages in it.
Good memories.

 

[John David Trolinger]

62. Started with CB HT from Radio Shack when I was 12. Learned electronics and computers and had a great life.
Today I was trying to cancel my Charter/Spectrum Internet service and they kept me on the phone with some kind of interrogation / marking call for 15 minutes at a wack. Finally told the 3rd guy that I was going to die soon and needed to cancel my service. He still kept at it with the sales talk.

At least we have a Radio Shack here in Kerrville so I've got that going for me.

 

[FlyBoy50]

62. Started with CB HT from Radio Shack when I was 12. Learned electronics and computers and had a great life.
Today I was trying to cancel my Charter/Spectrum Internet service and they kept me on the phone with some kind of interrogation / marking call for 15 minutes at a wack. Finally told the 3rd guy that I was going to die soon and needed to cancel my service. He still kept at it with the sales talk.

At least we have a Radio Shack here in Kerrville so I've got that going for me.

Don't sell yourself short. Your still young compared to some of us old buzzards ! LOL

 

[Monk]

I was a twenty-something when I got into cb radio, thanks to my father-in-law, who never drove a truck, but was a real rag-chew on the local scene with his imax 2k, push-up pole, coax draped over the roof, going in thru a window. I thought it was strange, cb radios belonged in a truck, not inside the house on a desk.

Not long after that, I found out a friend of mine, 60 something, blind, was a ham operator with a station and 2 towers. I heard he would climb his towers in the middle of the night, so his neighbors wouldn't see him and freak out. I guess if you're blind, day or night doesn't matter. He had a nice station, got a little offended when I called it a cb radio, then, a man without sight, proceeded to open my eyes to amateur radio. Rip friend.

No, I don't see many millennials or later in this hobby, as the youngest guy in my local group, (mostly 50-80 year olds) and I find less interest in the hobby with those younger. My children could care less to talk to someone in Australia or the UK on a radio, they can do that from the game console or computer. They can interact deeper and richer than on a radio. They don't have to wait for atmospheric conditions or sun spots, I imagine that's why they don't get it, they're the "right-now, always open" generation.

I think the younger people are jaded as they never had the THRILL of getting a pair of walkies-talkies on Christmas day 1960 and being able to talk to a friend without a string between two tin cans....even at night after being told to put those da**ed things away. Kind of an infection that doesn't go away. Fades in and out like propagation but is always there.

Monkradio

Woodland WA