Thank you sir for taking the time to do this! Much appreciated! I've spent hours going through all of the excellent info found there. Looking forward to seeing some early and mid 70s issues making their way to the site.
This is a new project I started recently - S9 CB RADIO MAGAZINE INDEX
I have about 100 of these great old mags and thought it would be cool to share them. I had to do some connect the dots for copyrights but I've now started scanning them in.
Hope people enjoy them as much as I did back in the day
Scanning takes a while but I should be adding more each month as I find time.
I know this is an old thread but just for fun I went through some of the later issues and googled company names. Surprisingly several still exist but in a different form. CB was was a quick way for them to make money and when the fad faded they just went back to doing what they always did. It was fun reading though, loved the Feb '79 issue with the Cobra "two for one" sale or the CPI add with all their stuff. I should have kept my issues as I was a subscriber back then.
If it isn't to late, I have a number of S9 magazines I could scan, time permitted, that you do not have. I'll have to get my son to show me how to scan and send them, so it could be a while. Am actively seeking S9 from 1980, 1981, and 1982 for my personal collection.Well - I've still got a couple more to be scanned in but basically here's the story.
There was a lady I hired on craigslist to scan in all my remaining issues at like $2 a pop (she was unemployed). She got through about 10 then emailed and told me she had a break in and the whole lot was stolen. Which is totally bizarre to me, who breaks in and steals CB magazines from the 70's but not her computer that she used to email me? Then a couple of weeks go by and she says she recovered a few of them and she gives me back about 10 and a flash drive with the ones she scanned.
Weird story huh? So a lot of my collection went missing which I was pretty sad about, especially since most of the issues from the 80's were lost which were the most valuable.
Additionally at one point I offered to give members here issues to keep if they would scan them in for me and send me the files. One member agreed, I sent him 12 issues and never got a thing back.
I guess at this point the project is pretty much dead. Additionally I got laid off in Sept and have been job searching so I don't have much time for anything CB related. I've sold most of my more expensive test equipment, scopes, etc just to raise some cash to hold us through. Unemployment rate might be going down but there certainly aren't any additional jobs being added to the economy.
So I apologize to everyone that there hasn't been a whole lot of new content lately. The cb and export market has been a bit quiet this quarter and I just haven't had time to finish any remaining reviews.
73's