Anyone have a CB radio handle?

My dad was more into CB's than I was but I did a little in my pre-teen days. His handle was Jolly Green Giant so of course I had to be Little Green Sprout. Dad had the whole setup: base station at the house with the giant antenna on it's own mast in the middle of the yard. And of course the big old whip antenna on the back bumper for the mobile unit in the car. When I saw this thread I was surprise how much came back, I even recalled the old license number: KAEK 5857.

Walt175 said:

You're gonna make me dust off the Tram D201A!!! I usually use the Cobra 142GTL with a silver eagle mic and a big stick on the roof.
Last time I turned the radio on, it was QUIET. Not like it used to be. Only a couple of OTW truckers.
Oh yeah, the handle was "Apache", then "Robin Hood" and my "number" was 175. That also happens to be where the 175 in my username comes from.

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Yeah Walt and I used to talk on the Cb all the time ,name here is Triple 9 or Base 1 when I was in the house.I myself also used a 142 GTL and a President Jackson DX in the car,I still have it! Im gonna miss ya walt!
Walter died of a heart attack on 6/15/08 at 3am in the morning ....he was not well...He almost finished the flashlight he was making for me.
Hats off to walt175 everybody-:mecry:

and walt ,youre mt buddy too!

I've recently started to get back into CB's. Nothing has changed much in 20-years, other than there are less base stations in my area. My wife and I met over the CB over 28 years ago. I'm Flatbottom, she is Dimples. In our area, Channel 12 was the prominent local channel. Channel 10 was the next most popular. On any given weekend there would be dozens of us on our base stations until the wee hours of the morning. I still have my Dak Mark IV and linear amplifier in the attic. Just recently, I installed a mobile setup in my truck and the wife's car. They we some really fun time back then. Thanks for allowing me a trip down memory lane.

Back, when I was in high school, my buddy, who is also a CPF lurker (says he can't remember his login name or something!) used to go by "Garage Boy." He was widely known, in these parts, because he had his home brew antenna on a crank up tower, over 100 feet, I believe, and was using a 1000 watt linear amp. I don't know anything about the math, but he said the type of antenna he had, at the height he had it, enabled him to put out the equivalent of 25,000 watts. He was working as a CB technician at the time at a CB radio shop in Alhambra. To him, everybody was a "mud duck." Back then, my CB handle was The Zoneranger. I still use that name around the net.

Oh yeah, eventually the FCC made him take the tower down, saying it was too close to the power lines or something.

RIP Walter.

Starting around 1964 I went by Boomerang - a name I chose for 2 reasons. I spent a lot of time throwing a Boomerang back then as a kid and got quite good at it. And because a boomerang always comes back - meaning if Boomerang heard you he'd always come back to talk to you. Loved those Golden Eagles's - I made a setup that actually emulated the sound of one so well that a lot of people thought I was running one. By the time I was 16 I learned the Morse code and almost went for a Ham Radio license but didn't actually get one until several years later. I mostly got out of CB by the time I was 18 though and while I still have my Turner +2 microphone and some old 23 channel CB's (one new still in the box - original 5 watt version) I really didn't ever get back into it as a hobby. When cell phones started catching on and the Internet got big I figured it was history but it does seem to hang on...

Caveman.

Got given/granted/assigned that handle on the way back from a caving trip years ago when 27 MHz was all there was in the way of CB here (before PRS on UHF came along).

LOL...this is a funny thread...thanks for starting it..

Mine is Blue Eagle...I loved military planes when I was growing up and still does.....and my favorite was the F15 Eagle..

I still have a couple of CB radios and a Magnetic K40 antenna...

I just dont get on there anymore..I think we were on Channel 29 mostly.

geepondy said:

No pigpens or rubberducks?

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Heh... my handle was pig pen from the mid 70's to mid 80's. Was that a popular name or something?

From a famous song in the 70s you'd probably have to be 40 or so to remember,

"Pigpen, this here's the rubber duck we just ain't gonna pay no toll. So we crashed the gate, doing 98, let them truckers roll, 10-4".

geepondy said:

From a famous song in the 70s you'd probably have to be 40 or so to remember,

"Pigpen, this here's the rubber duck we just ain't gonna pay no toll. So we crashed the gate, doing 98, let them truckers roll, 10-4".

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"Convoy"!!! THAT'S where I got my handle from!

Couldn't remember for the life of me. What a blast from the past. Thanks for the reminder, Geepondy!

10-4, good buddy. Over and out.

Convoy!! :twothumbs

Any you guys ever own a 23 channel rig before they expanded to 40 channels in 1977?

geepondy said:

Any you guys ever own a 23 channel rig before they expanded to 40 channels in 1977?

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I still have an old 23-channel Realistic in the the atic.

I've got a black-face Johnson Messenger that still works. It was my dad's (still has his license on the side). It only transmits on 12 channels but will receive all of 23! In the pickup I keep an Uniden PC68xl, peaked and tuned with a turner road king mic.
I grew up on Long Mountain so I got the handle "longjon", but similar to my posting style I always received more than I transmited

The rig in my first car was a 23 channel. Trying to remember if it was Realistic or not (it was not a Cobra, that I know). It'll come back to me. It was a pretty nice unit, IIRC, with a good number of controls on it. Grandpa gave it to me (along with the car). Can anyone name some of the other popular brands at the time? Edit: Oronocova just jarred the 'ol memory for me... pretty sure it was Uniden in the car, Realistic for the base unit.

Man, this thread continues to bring out more memories the more I think about it. Assorted memories of childhood to adolescence, me and Grandpa riding around in the car with his 50/100W Linear and 8 ft whip, or in the basement using his base rig with an amplified mic, etc. Ahh, those were the days.

Also just remembered that "Convoy" was made into a fairly cheesy Kris Kristofferson movie. As a kid though, I liked the trucks, and Ali McGraw taking an outdoor shower was pretty cool too.

LOL... I have such a hankerin' all of a sudden to get on a CB.

Breaker break, this is the Pig Pen. We gettin' stepped on by SSB. How's my meter?

I'd say about +8, +9.

Thank ya', good buddy. Roger that. You're hittin' me about the same. What's your 20?

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Wow, this thread brings back memories. My handle was George Strait...I know, pretty cheesy but I was still a big fan back then.

Were the early cb radios like the earlier scanners meaning you had to buy crystals for the channels you wanted to use?

oronocova said:

I've got a black-face Johnson Messenger that still works. It was my dad's (still has his license on the side). It only transmits on 12 channels but will receive all of 23! In the pickup I keep an Uniden PC68xl, peaked and tuned with a turner road king mic.
I grew up on Long Mountain so I got the handle "longjon", but similar to my posting style I always received more than I transmited

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Heard Convoy hundreds of times on the radio . . . .


But i still don't know:


-- What is Flag-town ? ? ?


-- What is Shaky-town ? ? ?



Thank you.

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