Ther linear is so powerful, I have come across peoples Tv sets, opened electric garage doors, set off bank alarms, all kinds of coool things. You too? HA HA! When we moved to Florida I missed my CB's.Now I have this CB type internet thingie! Remember all the call cards on the walls? Before I was Model T I was known as Mad Mustang. Drove a 1965 Mustang fastback with a 102" whip and a Radio shack CB mic/speaker that looked like a telephone reciever. :banana: Oh yea. Had the PA speaker too.
cobra 29 howdy i have a cobra 29 with night watch and weather band,,it has been peak and tuned with a wilson 5 ft magnetic base antenna i will let go for 175.00 (price includes shipping). it is currently in my cutlass wagon,which is for sale also,,,,p,m, if ya want it,,,thanks
I can tell we have a lot of old guys on this forum. A CB radio is nothing to most of the current generations.... but for those who grew up with Smokey and the Bandit, CW McCall, and owned one of these short range devices... it is as retro cool as the 8-track and disco! Guess I need to get mine out of storage and installed in the '58 now.
LOL showing my age ... CW McCall and his Convoy. I got into CB radios by watching The Dukes of Hazzard. Smokey and the Bandit came later.
I have a buddy who still uses a HAM radio in his basement with a 25 foot tower on his roof. His neighbors complain when he is on certain frequencies they can hear him on their radio or TV. HA! I remember having the biggest crush on Sally Field from Smokey and the Bandit, first movie I ever saw that had swear words in it.
Actually the "S" word made it's movie debut in the "Towering Inferno" three years previous. I love trivia!
I had a cobra 148 that was tweeked and peaked. Hell that cb went to HAM frequencies. That gets illegal because the FCC monitors theoes. The FCC dosent monitor the CB bands. People being jerks hanging dead carriers .... geeze somebody taped a mic, hooked a car battery to the radio, went to a hill and tossed it into a tree. For about 3 weeks we had a dead carrier , It blanketed the whole valley too, so alot of people went on an old fashioned rabbit hunt. Eventually somebody found the radio. On Mt Diablo they found a gutter Sears Roadtalker in a tree. Using a coathanger as an antenna.
What would be most cool is if you found an original G.M. stereo with CB built into it! There are still some out there, and of course, it would look 'factory'!
Sh!t!!,. really? These days even scooby doo says it,. 3's N 8's to y'all,. i run a 150 (90watt dead key) watt boot on my cb,. some extra channels up high too,. You guys have cb handles?? Nick
Yea nick, locally I go by skywalker. When I'm shooting skip my skip numbers are 409. I have a cobra 2000 base station with an antron 99 antenna mounted on my roof. I have the soaring silver eagle microphone and I have a sweet 16 linear when I need to get out. That's 1600 watts. I have an agreement with my neighbors that I won't flip the box on until after 11 at night. Swr's match perfectly btw
Ah yes, Children's Band radio. 3.5 million miles of over the road and I still have one in the tractor. It is almost deathly silent these days. Best use for me is so I can talk to other drivers in our company when we travel together, that and and some companies use them on the premises to direct you to the right location. If you put one in a car now, you might be disappointed with so little on the air. But it looks right in anything from about 1973- 1983, the times of the gas embargos and the double nickel...
Im not disappointed. cb isnt dead here. Channel 17 is alive. Best use for me is sitting in my front room, the silver eagle microphone in hand, my footwarmer on and somebody in Nashville Tennessee telling me to sit down because im squashing the locals out there. ' How Bout it Skipland, 409 the Skywalker , Just outside San Francisco , California. , 27 miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge out here in 49er terroritory on my bodasious base station , wall to wall and tree top tall, looking for a long distance radio check, I'm keying up and I'm stepping on ' Ill get people as far away as the state of Maine coming back to me. Out of their car cb's even. Natural high for me
