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Moderator136
Moderator
Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 497
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - 10:12 pm: | 
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Hummm I would like to read How you got started in the CB/Ham Hobby?
Your First Radio CB or Ham, Antenna, swr meters and so forth!
We learn from are first mistakes and should not repeat them sort of things !!!!
Hal ~ Moderator136 ~ KCØSVC
CEF#136/CEF HAM#23 ~ CVC#004
Moderator136@copperelectronics.com
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 1549
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 12:43 am: |
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I first got started in CB at the age of 8.
I had a big love for 18 wheelers and knew that they had CB's in them.
After High School I became a trucker.
My First CB was a Midland 23 channel mobile and all the s-meter was located on the front top of the radio, can't remember the stock #
The antenna was a ¼ wave rat shack that looked as if it had a hanger going from the center element to one of the other elements.
No SWR meter then, so who knows what my swr was.
Power Supply also was a rat shack 4 amp.
Handle, was and still is to this day Starface.
STARFACE
CEF#476
KI4NBE
HAM#181
CVC#Ø14
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Hyperno_1979
Intermediate Member
Username: Hyperno_1979
Post Number: 451
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 4:50 pm: |
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Played around with friends radios from about late 1977 then got my first car in 1978 with a TRC 448 installed in it. I still have the old girl. Back then only really used Animal Mode, didn't get into SSB until about the late '80's early '90's and haven't looked back. Handle back then was Radio Birdman. First home base sort of arrived by accident in the mid '90's. It wasn't until then that i became aware of such things as SWR etc.....lol. But anyway for the entire time i have had nothing but enjoyment from the hobby, and will have a radio in one form or another until the day i go toes up.
CEFFFCEF
Bob
CEF703/CVC26
NOT allowed to hold a passport....
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Tech858
Moderator
Username: Tech858
Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 5:50 pm: |
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In 1977 when I was about 12 yrs old one of mechanics at the local garage that my dad used to go to for repairs had a cb in his van ( Back then cb was not legal in the UK ) and one day I was listenin to a couple of the local truckers havin a ragchew on ch19 and thought it was cool and I had to have one so that christmas my dad managed to get me one from the local auto accessory shop which happened to keep a few "UNDER THE COUNTER" , it was a Midland 100M 40 ch rig and was the best thing since sliced bread or so I thought until I got my first AM/SSB rig in 1980 then things just progressed from there gettin bigger and bigger and more and my bank balance gettin smaller and smaller 
Tech858/Jim
MM0TXO
CEF#858
HAM#230
CVC#116
Wavin' a hand at ya' fae Scotland 
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Moderator136
Moderator
Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 499
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 8:55 pm: |
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I started the topic but forgot to add my own  so hear gos.
First CB was heathkit lunchbox only 3 channel radio tube type (channels were #3 #13 #23)and was hooked up to a homemade dipole that my dad put up for me. Yes made contacts across town then some  Whole bunch of fun!!!!
SSB came years later guessing around early 70's , Bought a skiltronics --- Didint like it drifted real bad. Mid 70s bought a Regency 123 that was sideband and had what you called a trickstick flatside horizontal dipole , Then i could talk accross the street. Also a vetical supermag at the time. Conditions was Great!
I had 3 shoe boxes of qsl cards ( i wear a size 12 shoe) so they were full! hehehe , lost them in a move. Wish i still had them....
Oh let me add tuner + 2 mic was great at the time , Turn it down on ssb but you add more on AM .
Good old days they was, But better days are comeing.
Hal ~ Moderator136 ~ KCØSVC
CEF#136/CEF HAM#23 ~ CVC#004
Moderator136@copperelectronics.com
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Penrider
Intermediate Member
Username: Penrider
Post Number: 220
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 9:48 pm: |
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Played with dad's radios since I was a baby. He said the only way to calm me down in the pickup was to hand me the microphone. Dad gave me the handle "Lugnut", but once I was older there seemed to be a dozen others with that name wherever I went so I changed it to "Penrider" since I was working feedlots in jr high and hs. When I got my first pickup in 1990 (I'm only 31), he gave me his 29xlr and a pair of francis redsticks. Still have all of it put up. Everything just progressed from there. Never had a base setup until a few years ago, I bounced around too much. I just wish there are as many cb'ers around as there were when I was a kid.
Sean
CEF867
Two tin cans and a string, it's still a contact...BTW, I need my can back when we're done!
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1861
Advanced Member
Username: 1861
Post Number: 680
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 11:05 pm: |
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I started police work in 1970 . all our police cars were equiped with cb,s so I soon got one put in my personal car to keep up with my partners when I was off duty . basically been running them ever since |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 14515
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 9:54 am: |
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I first started in the radio hobby back in 1962/63 by joining a Ham Radio Club in Jr High School.
I was first 1st licensed as a Ham in 1963 with a Novice Class License and 5 wpm code and the license was good for 1 year only and NON renewable.
1963 was also the year when the EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) was created when President Kennedy was in office.
1st Ham Radio - Heathkit DX-60 which I built in the school radio club.
1st CB - Heathkit CB1 (Lunchkit) w/Turner hand mic which I also built in the school radio club.
1st Antenna - Long wire
1st Meter the one on the DX-60
Lon ~ Tech808 ~ N9CEF
CEF#808 ~ CEF HAM#33 ~ CVC#002
Tech808@copperelectronics.com
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 534
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 4:12 pm: |
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i tried to build a cb from a kit in the early sixties,didnt turn out to well,then got side tracked for a few years,and while at a church convention i did the annoucements on a cb with
a pa system i was so impressed with the way i sounded i dedcided to get a cb radio and thats the rest of the story
moderator1516
cef 139
cvc 12
ham 147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 884
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 1:00 pm: |
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Mmm I go back to the days it was still a ham band in VK-land. Spent the first couple of years running 11m under the radio clubs callsign and upsetting teh Cbers..
How did I get into it - well thank a speech therapist for suggesting ham radio as a means to help both my stutter and speech impediment. Most of you who spoke to me know wouldn't have noticed that I ever had one.
First CB - Radio shack 23 ch handheld. First radio and Old ex-military tubed 62 set used on 80 and 40m..
Simon
Tech237
N7AUS
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Canon
New member
Username: Canon
Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 12:39 pm: |
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I've been pretty busy and haven't posted in a while. I'm still around. I started cb'ing at around 14 riding around town on bicycles carrying a walkie talkie. I remember talking to this one ol time cb'er that we thought was cool, because every time he keyed his mike it made a pinging sound. One day he invited us lads into his shack, and this was my first contact with a Browning Golden Eagle. I've been hooked ever sense. |
Wesal77
Junior Member
Username: Wesal77
Post Number: 33
Registered: 8-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:25 am: |
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My frist Radio was a old Lafayette 23 Ch. my dad had from his Father all we hooked up to it was a fire stick antanna out side the house that was when i was 9 or so. But the frist time i have ever hooked up a 23 Ch. mobile i was young & dumb im shure there was a lot of guys did this at one time. I hooked the Ground wire to the fuse box & the hot wire to the Ground source & then i fryed the radio fast.
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Robert
CEF#939
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Sniper_62881
Intermediate Member
Username: Sniper_62881
Post Number: 182
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 6:59 am: |
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Pipetester, who is also a member of the copper forum, got me started. He sold me my first radio, a Midland 23 ch. Hooked it up with a mobile K40 antenna out the window, onto a metal folding chair. I had that thing till it got ran over by an ambulance.
marc.cef613
sniper
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Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 2426
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 11:47 am: |
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My dad started me at age 4 with a Radio Shack 1 channel 3mw handheld! The lady at radio shack was nice and changed out the crystal from 14 to 19. Back then 14 was a power channel and 19 was a decent channel to listen to. Still have the walkie packed away somewhere.
I was living in an apartment with the walkie and we had several cbers who put their antennas out on the balcony at night!
I remember my crazy dad climbing out of a 3rd story window onto the roof of our apartment building to sneak an antenna. Lasted about a week before management found out.
Later on I upgraded to a Cobra 29 LTD. As I got older I picked up old cb's from everywhere. By age 12 I had my original Cobra 29 with 2 amps to choose from, Texas Star V Mod and a JB12. A Shakespere BigStick 65 feet tall on the roof of the house! Made my first DX contact at age 14. After that I really developed a huge interest in radio and have had one ready to go at all times. Always looking for that BIG DX contact!
KEEP IT REAL!
Kenny
cef491(27.115lsb)
2sf491(27.555usb)
Indiana
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Kiwikid
Intermediate Member
Username: Kiwikid
Post Number: 151
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 1:27 pm: |
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In 1978 a customer drove into work with his CB going and I heard stations hundreds if not thousands of miles away.Shortly there after a family friend introduced me to his AM/SSB Ferris 5000 fitted with a Redco Digiscan,26 and 27Mhz in 5khz steps.
My first CB was a 2 watt 11ch. AWA TR10 AM set.Cost NZ$200.From my mobile I worked many skip stations up and down New Zealand and Australia plus on one occassion Bill 101 in West Virginia!
I progressed onto a AM/SSB Apollo 701 with 1200ch via Redco Digiscan and a number of Palomar TX5500 amplifiers.Worked the world from my mobile.Later progressed onto amateur radio,but still tune into the 11m band. :-) |
Harleyrdr
New member
Username: Harleyrdr
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 4:24 am: |
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i gave up on txing while living in so,cal.
even the hamsters are rude there.
i got rid of everything but my scanner and shortwave reciever.
i moved to az, and one day i heard some guys chatting it up on 11m.
they were getting along fine.
i hadent heard this kind of cb since the 70's
i bought a radioshak transiever and a crappy little anntana. sure enough the local guys let me in and then i bought a presedent washington with a d104 mic. and its been fun ever since |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4558
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 11:00 am: |
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1st station was a SWL station in the late 1950s
and it has gone from there ..... to the station today.
Currently i go from 160 meters ( 1.8mhz ) to 3/4 meters ( 440mhz ) including 223 mhz FM.
Most active on 2 meter SSB and 6 Meter SSB
and On 2 meter fm simplex with other well equipted stations avoiding repeaters if we can.
Life member ARRL
Member QCWA,OOTC,SMIRK
On 6 since 66
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 921
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 1:24 pm: |
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Started at a local radio club (1971, aged about 10yrs old) and first radio was a tubed AWA ex-commercial two-way converted to 2m.. It was replaced by a Icom IC-22a and a RS handheld CB..
Simon
Tech237
N7AUS
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Funtimebob
Intermediate Member
Username: Funtimebob
Post Number: 240
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 1:32 pm: |
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I first got into CB in the early 70's when I was about 9. My Mom suffering from her first bout of cancer bought a TRC-55 with a ground plane to play around with since the doctors didnt want her out in the sun with the chemo.
she would listen to it, but would never talk until I started talking to some of the locals and she overcame her bout of "mic fright.
One day, She decided she wanted to upgrade with a Lollipop (D-104). With neither parent being drivers, I was charged with making the trip by bus to the nearest C.B. shop to have it wired to her radio. which at my age seemed to take forever up and back, plus the wait on top of things for the work to be done.
Seeming to be such a simple thing to accomplish this eternity of waiting prompted me to make a trip to radio shack for my first soldering iron spawning my early interest in electronics.
A few soldered fingers later I started becoming more efficient in the "Art of soldering". Becoming more curious as to how things worked led me to building small projects out of books from the local library which ultimately led to making my own simple etched boards and regulated power supplies.
The occasional basic repairs for my local CB Buddies, added a few extra bucks in the coffers for solder and heatsink compound etc, and old damaged radios for parts salvage and the occasional ressurection. A buck a week for an allowance from somebody that gambled everything away didn't go very far. It didnt take too long to cash in enough scavenged pop bottles to get a small roll of 60/40.
The Library's science department became invaluable for needed schematics which I was turned on to by a retired Zenith engineer named Charlie.
My mother, getting more involved with radio, and not liking the way CB was becoming, Started nursing a desire to try Ham radio, and purchased a Hallicrafters SX-111 reciever. she would try everything she could think of to get me to study morse with her. she eventually gave me the Hallicrafters.
After Disassembling the heavy primary of an old TV transformer and stringing it from the 4th floor fire escape to the Viaduct, above and across the lot of the sheet metal factory next door I had my first longwire. It was amazing how much I was able to pick up. especially on 10mc
Filled with the desire to tinker, I had ocasionaly heard those &#$%*# ham operators! and decide to take classes at the local red cross. The Instructors where a little supprised when I was normally the one to answer ther questions about ohms law etc. But could never quite seem to get the code down. after a few weeks (and lack of bus fare) I dropped out of classes.
With the arrival of the 80's along with the discovery of women, Radio slowly faded to the wayside after moving to my fathers home town in Ky. (1991)not to mention the lack of parts.
In 1998, I moved back to ohio, and while working security, decided to get back into radio a few years later. After installing a radio in my vehicle I couldn't believe how bad radio had become during my hiatus. In 2006 I came in contact with a dear old friend I hadn't seen in over 20 years. Imagine my suprise when I found out that in my absence he had become a HAM!! I didnt realise he was ever even interested in such a thing. Now he was a ham, His ex brother in law, a ham and his eldest son also a ham and his wife was getting ready to take her test (now a ham)and her uncle frank also a ham.
I had been studying for the license on occasion over the years, But for some reason kept procrastinating. Now the pressure was being applied from all directions.
I finally suscumbed to the pressure in 2006.
Sincerely
KD8DEY
This post was brought to you By Hamburger Helper.
One Pound, One Pan, One Happy Bubba
73's Kd8dey
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Captian_radio
Intermediate Member
Username: Captian_radio
Post Number: 288
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 4:32 pm: |
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I got involved in radio at a very early age.My father was a tech with Western Union back in the fifties,when he would work evening shift I would go down to the office as they called it and watch him do his stuff.He used to let me play with the old RTTY stuff and I used to talk to a another tech in New York and Boston.The office was the only link to Europe from North America via the old Trans Atlantic under sea cable!!He taught me morse code at a young age so it just seemed to come naturally to me when I got older.It was fun to see the signal on an oscilloscope going through the cable on its way from Newfoundland to Europe.He taught me a lot about circuits and radios antennas etc.I became a ham in 1992 after a lot of urging from him.He's 83 now and pretty much out of radio but his knowledge of how it was in the old days of radio is as fresh as if it was yesterday.I could go on for days about some of the stories but I'll save that for another time.
Bob VE1CZ/CEF451
Robert L. Spicer The days of radio are just beginning!
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Knowledge
Junior Member
Username: Knowledge
Post Number: 25
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 11:01 am: |
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I first got into CBs when I was...heck, I don't remember but it must have been 7-8 years old, my pops has a 1983 Oldsmobile 98 Regency with a stock Delco CB/Cassette knob radio. 40 channels, I would turn that thing on and listen to the static, the jumbled up sounds...man, I really love that sound.
Mind you I was born in 83, so it had to have been 1991?...90? Either way, my pops was picking up food one day from his buddies restaurant and decided he'd take his sweet time, and I turned on the CB as I always did, just to listen. I was on CH.15 and heard a guy talking in my language (Assyrian) and I keyed up and talked into the mic, he asked me my name, and it ended up that he knew my dad. He told me to never use my real name, EVER...and that from now on my name would be "Kojack"...I liked it.
It's been that ever since. My aunts husband used to own a 19GTL, and a 132XLR (he ended up giving them both to me when I was 20)...and my mom bought me a GE walkie talkie with a HUGE antenna when I was 10-11....have that too.
Although I'm not as active now (at the age of 24), I still get that...urge? to hear that static, the noise, gibberish from time to time...as much as I hate having a ridiculous antenna on my car. |
Lester_elm
Junior Member
Username: Lester_elm
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 9:14 pm: |
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Geez, where did it start? I suppose I got my 'official' start in radio back in the mid 60's. My dad was a radio/tv repairman back then and also worked for the DOT as a radio tech. I would hang out in his shop and wander through the parts bins which contained mostly vacuum tubes, resistors, and condensers (they are called capacitors, now). I would watch Dad pull the chassis out of a radio or tv and use his trusty Simpson 260 to troubleshoot it. One day while wandering around in the shop I came across an old ARRL Handbook. It told of amateur (ham) radio and electronic theory. I read that thing until I finally wore the covers off of it. I was about 8 years old at that time, and I was totally enthralled with the 'Magic of Radio'. I asked Dad if I could build one of the circuits in the Handbook and he said, "Sure, if you think you can handle it". So, I commenced to build a 15m CW transmitter. Dad coached me in proper soldering technique, resistor color codes, and coil/choke construction. With a lot of patience and a lot more luck I completed the project. Dad had an old Globe CB transceiver (3 channel crystal-controlled) that he had never gotten around to repairing and told me if I could fix it, I could have it. He had a SAMS book for the radio, so I began to work on it. After a few weeks of head-banging and heart-aches I finally got that ole radio going. Heathkits were a favorite pasttime for me. I built most of my own test equipment. I remember a few years later I bought a solid-state mobile (Pace) that didn't work for $5 and learned how to troubleshoot and repair solid-state circuits. Though I had built and repaired many radios, I didn't get into talking on the air until around 1974. By the time I was 15 I had built several radios from scratch. My next 'store-bought' radio was a Cobra 86XLR. It was the first 'NEW' radio I had ever owned. I brought it home, took it apart, modified the fire out of that thing. I re-designed and re-built much of the IF, RF, and AF sections and had the best-talking radio around for miles. Electronics has pretty much been my anchor in life. Especially two-way radio. I just love it. Now have my Amateur Extra Class ham license and still enjoy the 'Magic of Radio'.
CEF #964
HAM #276
Ham Radio - Talk worldwide on a tin can and a wet noodle
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Crazy_joker
New member
Username: Crazy_joker
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:43 pm: |
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This is my 1st post so I thought the subject was fitting. I 1st talked on a cb when I was 10, in 1988, it was in my dads 4wd. I first got my own in 1990 when I was 12. It was a small rinky dink Midland, doing 9 watts I think, hooked up to a 102" stainless whip about 10 foot off the ground. It didn't talk far but I sure did make alot of enemies! |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 2132
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 12:16 pm: |
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Started out at the age of around 9 or 10 using Walkie Talkies and trying to contact truckers.
At age 14, I got my first CB radio. It was a Midland 23 ch Am only base with a clock. And my first antenna was a Starduster. First Mic was a Turner +3 base mic. Then, I purchased a Cobra 139 base with SSB. Purchased my first linear amp, a Black Cat with 2 tubes. When the 40 ch cb radios came out I purchased a Uniden Washington and then a Uniden Madison and my antenna was a Super Big-Stik, as my Starduster had fallen apart in the winds and ice storm. When I purchased my second linear Amp which was a MACO Base Amp with 6 tubes. I hooked the radio and Maco Amp up to a small mobile antenna to try it out and on the first few keys I melted the plastic on the antenna where the tuning rings were. LOL...I then went on a shopping spree of buying and using different antennas. Antron 99, Maco 5/8, Penetrator 500, Sigma 4, and on and on. Purchased a Galaxy Saturn Base radio and a Galaxy transistor linear amp. Nothing, but, trouble with that combination and ended going back to using my faithful Uniden Madison and Washington base radios with extra channels in them with the Turner +3 mics. Got out of cbing for about 10 years or so. Then, started Cbing again in the 2000's. |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 1286
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 5:39 am: |
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when i was 12 i got my first set of handheld
walietalkies from radio shack.it was only
3 channels .it had a,b,c. a was ch.14 im not
sure what the others were as i didnt get the extra crystals.when i asked for some i was wanting the toy type radios but what i got was a whole lot better.btw i still have them to this day
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
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Capt_hook
Intermediate Member
Username: Capt_hook
Post Number: 317
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm: |
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I started in 1971 bought a Royice 604 still have it paid $80 bucks new .this radio has 1,800,000 miles on it (18 Wheeler)still works I love it"CB" radio and it's people take'em or leave'em.Ron .."CaptHook" |
Bulldogunit777maine
New member
Username: Bulldogunit777maine
Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2008
| | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 6:40 am: |
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Got interested in CB radio in the late 70's. A neighbor a few houses up the road had a Browning Mark II with an Avanti PDL II. He was paralized from the neck down. His radio knobs were modified with a screw on the side so he could turn the knobs with a stick in his mouth. The D-104 had an extention made so he could key up with his chin. "Screaming Eagle" in Cranston, Rhode Island was a very enjoyable person to be with. My brother and I bought a Robyn T123B 23 channel tube type radio that was tuned and peaked with lower channels. We also had a D-104 and Big Stick. We work the DX and recieved lots of QSL cards. Later we upgraded to a Cobra 2000 GTL fully done up. The Big Stick was upgraded to an Avanti PDL II. The QSL really poured in. Early in the morning before going to school we would communicate with countries in Europe. That was the good old days.
Bulldog
Unit 777
Central Maine
"Make Everyday Your Best Day"
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Snoopy
Junior Member
Username: Snoopy
Post Number: 10
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:16 am: |
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I got in cb radio s 1979 my 1st radio was a pace 8016 and a 23 ch victor kris Then I went out bought a navaho 432 radioshack power desk mike had a ground plain for a base. Miss the old coffee breaks back in the days to .
GHOST RIDER CEF 929 WAREHAM MASS
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Skywalker975
Member
Username: Skywalker975
Post Number: 52
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 2:47 pm: |
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Wow when did i start? i'd have to say i was 15 or 16 years old around 1990ish. Been around CB radios all my life as my dad always had one around. My 1st radio was an old 23 Ch. Crag base with a fiberglass antenna right outside of my bedroom window. I couldn't talk on it cause the mic didnt work and i didnt know how to fix it at the time but boy did i ever enjoy listen to all the locals talk. After awhile that got old just listening and just had the earge to key up and talk so i went and did some work for neighbors and got enough cash to buy a radio from my cousin Rick ( Knightrider CEF 256)it was a 23 channel GE mobile and a no name Power Supply. Boy i was talking Then LOL. after beening on the air awhile i started learning about different kinds of radios so of course i had to get something better. I bought a Panasonic Base and my Very 1st Base Antenna ( A99 ). Then i thought i was a big dog lol. Ran the thing for a long time. Then i got my 1st car and knew i had to have a radio in there since thats where i was 80% of my teenage life ( go figure LOL ) i had a 40 CH Roybin that My Grandmother gave me that my Grandfather used before he passed which i still have. As time went by i learned even more about biggier and better radios and learned about SSB. So i had to upgrade. Have had many kinds of other radios (Galaxys, Cobras, Connex ECT.)
Today i have 5 different radio in my little collection Couple are oldies but goodies ( Excalibur SSB & Cobra 139 XLR ) But main Radios i use is a Galaxy DX99V ( Base Set Up ) and still Useing A A99 To this day. In my car i got a Cobra 29 LTD Classic and in the XYL's Van Is a RCI 2950. To This Day I LOVE The Hobby and still learning new things about it. I am studying for my Ham Ticket. BUT! will never for get who and how and where i got my start in CB Radios.
73 ya'll Happy DXin
Donnie
Skywalker
CEF250
CVC#039
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Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 16191
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:38 am: |
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So if you have not posted to this topic yet, how did YOU the Copper Forum Member's get started / interested in the Radio Hobby?
Lon~Tech808
CEF#0808/HAM#001/CVC#0002
Tech808@copperelectronics.com
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808xyl
Senior Member
Username: 808xyl
Post Number: 1174
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 9:41 am: |
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Well I got started/interested in the Radio Hobby when I started dating Lon/Tech808 over 34 year's ago.
I never dreamed I would end up with a house full of my radio's and his and OUR radios!.
It has been and still is a LOT of FUN!
I have worked all 50 state's over the year's and I have had a GREAT time doing it. 
And I have had the pleasure of meeting many of the CEF Radio Club Member's both locally and from across the US.
And I enjoy the Sunday CEF Radio Club Net's that have allowed me to chat with other CEF Radio Club Member's.
It is a GREAT hobby that we can both share and have fun doing it together while making  friend's over the airwaves.
Hope to chat with all of you soon on the air or during the Sunday CEF Radio Club Net's. 
Shirley
808xyl/1st Sargant
CEF#0164
CVC#0003
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Stepchild
Intermediate Member
Username: Stepchild
Post Number: 167
Registered: 11-2002
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I guess it all started in the late 70's. Dad was a trucker and had a cb in his pick-up also and I remember listening to him talk to my uncle about 75 miles away that had a huge base. Then in the late 80's I got my first pick-up and my dad gave me his old 29 ltd(not the classic)and a ss whip,man that thing was a talker. Then in the early 90's a friend introduced me to ssb and I bought a super star 3900 from my brother in '93 and then bought my RCI 2980 in '97,which I still have. I love this hobby and have two children ages 11 and 9 that are showing a lot of intrest in the hobby as well.
Stepchild
CEF-187
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Dane
New member
Username: Dane
Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 6:02 pm: |
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Started out at the age of around 12 using Walkie Talkies and trying to talk to truckers. After many years on the walkie talkies i got my first cb general electric mobile. It sure was a good talking radio. After many years of talking on the GE i got my first base station cobra 142 and that was a good talking radio back in the 70's
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Nvdoug
New member
Username: Nvdoug
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:25 am: |
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Back in the 60's I was almost 10. My family traveled from So. Cal. to Ohio to visit granparents. I always asked the truckers where a good place was to "Choke & Puke" (eat). My folks got a kick out of that and we always found the good places to eat at.
Just yesterday I told a friend at work that I was getting my ears back up at home. He said, "Who you gonna talk to?" I said without skipping a beat, "It doesn't really matter" 
CEF# 1019 Doug |
The_general
New member
Username: The_general
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2009
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 3:29 pm: |
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I got hooked on radios when I was only 12yrs old. I was in 4-H and my leader had a Cobra base station. Never saw one before. He left me listen to other locals in my area and from that day forward i was hooked. My grandmother bought me my first radio for Christmas. It was a little 40ch. Midland, but it did the job. Had no idea at the time what SWR's were. Talked on that radio for a good many yrs. CEF# 1018 |
Nightlinks
New member
Username: Nightlinks
Post Number: 6
Registered: 1-2009
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 7:09 pm: |
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I remember when i first saw a CB radio. I think it was back in 1987 in the building where i was living in someone that lived in the same building had a cb radio and threw an extension plug from the 4 floor to the roof of the building. He started talking to people have laughing. I was like that is cool i want one but i did not get my own radio until the 1993. I had me a small realistic radio with a realistic 2 amp power supply i got from my local radioshack. I was giving TVI to everyone in the neighborhood I remember one day i was talking on the radio and all of a sudden i see my radio also go out the window because someone pulled the coax. I was using a taxi cab antenna with the coax with no connector touching the antenna. Around the corner from me there was a ham op that heard me one day and said that if i did not stop that he would tell the FCC about my station. After that i had quit until a year or 2 later that i got myself a 148 then a 2950 with a a99 but i never put it up and sold everything. Until now that i am getting back into CBing thanks to the internet. I'm buying the proper equiptment that i need so that i don't give TVI and i can enjoy the hobby this time around.
I had alot of fun when i was young and dumb! :D
CEF#1021
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Ssr
New member
Username: Ssr
Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 2:00 am: |
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There was a club called Oscar Charlie where i grew up in Milw, Wi.(long gone i assume, cant find anything on them) that came to our school and talked to kids about how much fun radio can be as opposed to going out and getting into trouble, so after much pleading i recieved for my b-day (1976) a royce i-620 23 channel base and some sort of 3 leg ground plane ant, my dad helped me strap it to the chimney and i've been at it ever since until 10 yrs ago or so, i packed it all away. just now going through everything and seeing if any of it still works, hopefully be back on air in a couple weeks.
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Teham
Member
Username: Teham
Post Number: 55
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 4:44 pm: |
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Well I started on walkie talkkies when I was 11. My dad kept telling we ought to buy a radio. One day we heard this guy telling someone he sold them from his house so we went to look. We bought a vocaline had 4 channels. He let us use a droopy dwarer ant and some coax. That was in 1967. I had so much fun that I wanted to become a ham.
I joined the Air Force in 1980 and was stationed in Germany. From there I went to OK. I went to the hospital one day and there was a pickup with ham plates. So I put a note on his windshield. Couple days later he called and told me at the Red Cross they were giving ham radio classes. I still use cb and have both in my vehicles and at home. Wudn't be without either. Tony/N5JVA/CEF 259 |
