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Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« on: August 25, 2017, 02:24:51 am »
How many people here still remember their CB Radio license number they had to  say each time they signed off the air?

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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2017, 02:53:09 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 02:24:51 am
How many people here still remember their CB Radio license number they had to  say each time they signed off the air?

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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2017, 02:56:36 am »
I have no idea.  I saw it on the paper I got.  Nobody gave a crap if I ever said it by the time I got on the air.  Couple years later they didn't even care if I had a license. :shrug:

I sure as HECK had my commercial license, though (First Phone).  They gave a lot of crap about that, still do.
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2017, 02:58:47 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 02:24:51 am
How many people here still remember their CB Radio license number they had to  say each time they signed off the air?

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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2017, 02:58:53 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2017, 02:56:36 am
I have no idea.  I saw it on the paper I got.  Nobody gave a crap if I ever said it by the time I got on the air.  Couple years later they didn't even care if I had a license. :shrug:

I sure as HECK had my commercial license, though (First Phone).  They gave a lot of crap about that, still do.

Don't ask me to remember what I was doing yesterday...but I can remember the mandatory call sign when my parents got their twin Browning 23 Channel radios back in 1976.
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2017, 03:02:48 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 02:58:53 am
Don't ask me to remember what I was doing yesterday...but I can remember the mandatory call sign when my parents got their twin Browning 23 Channel radios back in 1976.

Yeah, good rigs.  Two years later and it was the piece o' crap 41 channel units at half power (Spit!).
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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2017, 03:08:14 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2017, 03:02:48 am
Yeah, good rigs.  Two years later and it was the piece o' crap 41 channel units at half power (Spit!).

I was still using one of the the Browning Brownie model 23 channels as recently as 1998.  Still had better power than the most recent 40 channel models.

Right now if I get one (and I'm considering it for my Z3) I'll get a Cobra 19 Ultra III
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2017, 03:22:17 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 02:24:51 am
How many people here still remember their CB Radio license number they had to  say each time they signed off the air?

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K##X-3508, the world's one and only Limestone Cowboy comin' over atcha....

Rattled that off enough I don't think I'll ever forget.
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2017, 03:23:43 am »
The 40 Channel rigs had half the power of the 23 Channel units (I think the 23 channels were 5W?).  When the FCC switched over, 23 channel units were prohibited for manufacture and sale, but the use was grandfathered, so if you have a 23 channel, it's a good thing to hang on to.  Double power.
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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2017, 03:28:49 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 25, 2017, 03:22:17 am
KBIX-3508, the world's one and only Limestone Cowboy comin' over atcha....

Rattled that off enough I don't think I'll ever forget.

Hey 10-4 there Limestone Cowboy...Texas Blabbermouth raking the leaves for you..we're 10-10 and listening in....
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2017, 03:33:12 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 03:28:49 am
Hey 10-4 there Limestone Cowboy...Texas Blabbermouth raking the leaves for you..we're 10-10 and listening in....
10-4 there Texas Blabbermouth! Good times on a long road, and seriously more aware of everything around, location, weather ahead/behind, and the presence of the constabulary....Where I worked on the Archaeological crew, the whole valley used CBs, and very few had phones. Some of those rigs were a little more amplified than the Friendly Candy Company liked, and they could talk with relatives in Tennessee on the CB. That usually went to a clean channel, 'cause the signal would walk all over anything else happening.
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2017, 03:37:58 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 25, 2017, 03:33:12 am
10-4 there Texas Blabbermouth! Good times on a long road, and seriously more aware of everything around, location, weather ahead/behind, and the presence of the constabulary....Where I worked on the Archaeological crew, the whole valley used CBs, and very few had phones. Some of those rigs were a little more amplified than the Friendly Candy Company liked, and they could talk with relatives in Tennessee on the CB. That usually went to a clean channel, 'cause the signal would walk all over anything else happening.

I remember sitting in my grandparents kitchen in Southern Oklahoma and talking on their big Cobra base station.  They had side band and an extra amplifier on their unit...which broadcast from a 40' tower from their house which sat on top of a 200" hill.  To say they could talk to anyone anywhere was an understatement.

I just remember the early 23 channel units having a lot more power to reach out and touch people several states away than the 40 channel units.

And any CB is still better than a Fuzz Buster any day of the week.
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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2017, 03:47:08 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on August 25, 2017, 03:37:58 am
I remember sitting in my grandparents kitchen in Southern Oklahoma and talking on their big Cobra base station.  They had side band and an extra amplifier on their unit...which broadcast from a 40' tower from their house which sat on top of a 200" hill.  To say they could talk to anyone anywhere was an understatement.

I just remember the early 23 channel units having a lot more power to reach out and touch people several states away than the 40 channel units.

And any CB is still better than a Fuzz Buster any day of the week.
Yeah, these folks would run the coax to the ridge and mount an antenna up there, with at least one amp in the setup.
In Virginia, even then, a fuzzbuster could get you busted, and they're still illegal out there.
Radio could help in a pinch, was used to report fires/accidents, jibber jabber (ratchet jaw), road conditions (route semi-traffic going into construction areas) and the like, it was just a whole lot more useful. The early ones did seem more powerful, and there were guys with linear amps out there who came through better'n broadcast.
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2017, 03:51:42 am »
Do CBs still exist?
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2017, 03:52:58 am »
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Re: Thought Provoking #tbt Trivia Question
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2017, 03:56:03 am »
Quote from: Mom MD on August 25, 2017, 02:53:09 am
I remember my ham license.  ND0D.

I'm an extra class ham of long standing but not about to post my call in here.
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2017, 03:59:20 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2017, 02:56:36 am
I have no idea.  I saw it on the paper I got.  Nobody gave a crap if I ever said it by the time I got on the air.  Couple years later they didn't even care if I had a license. :shrug:

I sure as HECK had my commercial license, though (First Phone).  They gave a lot of crap about that, still do.

 Yeah! That first phone license and a couple of $ will get you a cup of coffee most places these days.

http://www.thebdr.net/articles/fcc/rules/ChiefOperator.pdf
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2017, 04:04:15 am »
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2017, 04:19:03 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 25, 2017, 03:59:20 am
Yeah! That first phone license and a couple of $ will get you a cup of coffee most places these days.

http://www.thebdr.net/articles/fcc/rules/ChiefOperator.pdf

Still need it.  It's a "General" since the 80's.  Haven't had mine on a wall since then, because I left the business.
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2017, 04:21:26 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2017, 04:19:03 am
Still need it.  It's a "General" since the 80's.  Haven't had mine on a wall since then, because I left the business.

I let mine lapse long ago. Didn't need it.  Still don't

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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2017, 04:40:02 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 25, 2017, 03:56:03 am
I'm an extra class ham of long standing but not about to post my call in here.

I let my license lapse over 20 years ago so doubt my call would do any one any good, but i can erase it
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« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2017, 04:42:30 am »
Quote from: Mom MD on August 25, 2017, 04:40:02 am
I let my license lapse over 20 years ago so doubt my call would do any one anty good, but i can erase it

@Mom MD

 That call is currently for someone who lives in Iowa  If that's not you I wouldn't worry about it.
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« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2017, 04:48:50 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 25, 2017, 04:42:30 am
@Mom MD

As long as your don't still live at the same address it's cool!  I'm still active.

Nope. Have moved several times since.  I used mine mostly for the patch to a phone line on my clubs system in case of emergency, but cell phones made that obsolete.  I didn't have time or money to develop further or buy more equipment other than my 3m hand help so I didn't renew the license.  It was fun at the time! Particularly when the astronaut that was a ham operator was in space and trying to collect as many call signs as he could hear while in orbit.  Congrats on still being active.  I bet you have a nice set up.
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« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2017, 04:49:56 am »
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@Mom MD

 That call is currently for someone who lives in Iowa  If that's not you I wouldn't worry about it.
Nope. Never lived in Iowa.  Tks
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« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2017, 04:55:52 am »
Quote from: Mom MD on August 25, 2017, 04:48:50 am
Nope. Have moved several times since.  I used mine mostly for the patch to a phone line on my clubs system in case of emergency, but cell phones made that obsolete.  I didn't have time or money to develop further or buy more equipment other than my 3m hand help so I didn't renew the license.  It was fun at the time! Particularly when the astronaut that was a ham operator was in space and trying to collect as many call signs as he could hear while in orbit.  Congrats on still being active.  I bet you have a nice set up.

LOL! I've done many a phone patch but, as you say, that equipment is pretty much obsolete now.

Let's just say I can pretty much speak with whom I want when I want.  Most distant contact in my log is with a guy who lives on the island of Tasmania.  Worked him long path but it's really about the same come to think of it.

I'll probably be pretty busy starting in the morning working traffic on 14.300 USB  (National Hurricane Net)
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