Maybe Late... maybe a dollar short... (who can repair CBs!)

[guitar_199]

I literally just stumbled across this!!!! I know that AT ONE TIME a 2nd Class Radiotelephone Operators license was required to repair CB radios... I remember seeing it in the rules. I am also aware that there has been a LOT of discussion about that. (don't get the idea that I am a psycho that WANTS it to be that way...!!!!)

But I just found this text at the following link......

https://www.fcc.gov/commercial-radio-operator-license-program

And, TO ME, it says clear as day...... such a license is NOT REQUIRED! The second bullet point flat calls out CB Radio.

I think that there is still some language that says it must be done by a qualified individual....but I can not find anywhere that discusses what a "qualified" individual is.

Just makes me feel better.... and makes me giggle. So I had to get it off of my chest!!!!

Carry on!!!

 

[Handy Andy]

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[guitar_199]

heh heh heh......

You know... I bet there are people who don't
even worry about this!!!!!

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[TM86]

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Is it bad that I solder like that?

 

[Handy Andy]

Oh, sorry, that was a clip from a Demonstration Video I use to teach my "kids" how to properly dispose of Nuclear Waste....

It's the seal-welding the case shut portion I was trying to help them with in how to prevent tampering once you have completed the tune-up...

Wonder how that wandered in there?

 

[Recon]

Did the CB radios in the sixties, seventies and eighties break-down as much as they do now?

 

[S&W357]

Good question Recon. I don’t remember any of my gear breaking down in the mid 70’s and into the 80’s.

 

[Handy Andy]

Many older stuffs were simply thrown or abandoned.

The 23-channels were made obsolete when the FCC allowed 40 channel which prompted an en-masse exodus from the older Xtal synthesis to the current PLL as well as its price tag - for the extra channels and band plan.

For many they wanted more room to breathe, capture a conversation - have a QSO.

Sadly, many just "dumped" their "stuff" - they're in landfills somewhere...

Now as far as the older equipment that didn't get burned up in fires, washed away or thrown out due to flooding and other environmental catastrophes - what has survived the populaces wrath and family "I don't know what this is so I'm throwing it away." because it won't sell in a Garage sale - until eBay came long - this was the typical route most equipment from that era took.

It wasn't from "poor assembly" - most operators held onto their equipment - until the day they found something better; then without further consideration - it was swept away.

You are correct to think that most of the equipment made in that era would have survived to a point.

But as age, the environment and the materials and parts used would eventually reveal their weaknesses - like todays current results in using older equipment and it's required maintenance - it's almost as commonplace to have the tech say "it needs a recap first so we can assess the actual condition you speak of" - so they are led to a room with counters and walls full of more stuff as they are brainwashed into thinking as in having to have better newer - more bolder (think: Powerful in some aspect) pieces of hardware and their accessories to attach to them.

Most that lived thru the changes - didn't bother to hold onto something they couldn't use.

I wish I could give you better news, but the room of stuff I have - I'm trying to keep the wife from selling it off.

 

[secret squirrel]

Everything was regarded differently. Imagine treating your cb radio like you would your new Galaxy Android v26 cell phone. If it did break you would find the best person you could to repair it. Cousin Eddy would not be inside with a multimeter and soldering iron. My fathers base station sat in the living room opposite wall from the color TV it was furniture. The Radio Shack RG8 coax was routed down through the wall from the attic and came out through a plastic outlet cover just let the TV RG6. Oh and “the CB radio is not a toy for kids.” The ball mount, on my father’s Suburban, for the Shakespeare 9 foot whip was installed at the CB shop. My father gave the same regards to the CB shop as the gun store. The old style gun stores when you used to walk in an sit down at the counter and every rifle possible was on the wall behind the counter. Pistols were in big glass cabinets. Stacks of gun magazines and ashtrays filled with Camel, Marlboro and Pall Mall butts obstructed clear view of revolvers and a few semi-autos. The CB guy, the Television repairman, and the Gunsmith were all fixtures in every little town. Cell phones are the only current institution I can think to compare what it was like many yesterdays ago. You have AT&T and Verizon with the latest and greatest technology, the IPhone or new Samsung. Then you have discounted carriers with cheaper model Android phones that still work and make calls, take pictures and play online pornography just fine. Just think of Cybernet PLL 02a like Android OS and 23 channel CBs like flip phones.