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WALTERB
| | Posted on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 2:26 am: | 
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My second CB was a Cobra148GTL all tricked out and a K40 Mag mount antenna, the CB shop owner told me that this setup was as good as it gets that was 1980 and i would go up the hill from my QTH and ralk all over the world with the 148 barefoot ( I WAS HOOKED ) and still am that was 21years ago and i just retired my 148 about 2and1/2 years ago and now talk on a 99V and i am still talking to most part of the world on 21 watts on 10 meters just like when i started 21 years ago and it still does the same thing to me.
Looks like i am hooked for life and loving it. |
307 (307)
| | Posted on Monday, April 30, 2001 - 8:52 pm: |
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Walter , I totally understand , I still am locked in and loving it. I had bought a little "Pocket Rocket" 40 watt amplifier , remember them? Tiny little amp with LED's across the front that flashed when you transmitted. I moved to California when I was 18 and I to had a 148. I do not know if you remember "Twin Peaks" right next to San-Fransico or not but a Saturday night was all I needed. I used to go up to the top and play DX all night. Sometimes I would leave at 3 or 4 in the morning to go back home. That 148 and Pocket Rocket was my #1 radio. I even talked to some of my friends back in Pennsylvania that I knew from High School that were also into CB. I used to take canned "Sterno Heat" and light it in the car. It was placed on a piece of aluminum between the seats. That was my heat while playing. Bring back memories??? |
WALTERB
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2001 - 1:36 am: |
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307,
I sure do remember Twin Peaks my dad took up there during WWII one night to see a lighting storm when i was a kid. My best friend lived on one of the hills behind Twin Peaks to the south west and use to talk to my dad who lived up by Sacremento every night on 465 until the FCC nailed one of them back in the early 80s on a good day they could talk barefoot Sac to SF. Those were interesting times. |
HugBare1
| | Posted on Thursday, May 03, 2001 - 8:15 am: |
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Well, I am gonna show my age a bit, but my first was a Johnson "White Face" 6ch and then later on a Johnson "Black Face" .. Browning Golden Eagle was the next grand investment (wish I still had it).. From the Twang of the Golden Eagle went to the Sil 1011C. From there a highly modified Cobra 2000GTL for a LOT of years. Have run many antennas in my time from wire dipoles I made myself to the "Penetrator 5/8 wave", Super Scanners, 3 element quad that was home made by putting two RS 3 element beams together on a bit long mast .. This little guy talked as well as any Moonraker 4 ... Now running a Eagle 2000 with D-104 / Cobra 200XL off an A99 with the Firestik top section. This is a must mod for the A99 ... |
Vernon Ott
| | Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 8:45 pm: |
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First CB I had was a little JC Penny driving a used Hooker 100 amp through a weird looking winged antenna mounted on my trunk.This was in 1975.Every time I keyed up the little Pinto I drove bogged.Not much of a alternator.Greenhornet |
707
| | Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 11:05 pm: |
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I found out about "smallternators" the hard way one day when I keyed up a 250w heater in my Ford Fiesta while driving over a bridge across the south canadian river. I had been running this setup just fine for quite a while, mostly on ssb, but that day I was talking FM. Everything was fine going down the road yakking away, but the minute I got well onto the bridge, keyed down, I felt and heard the alternator drag and POP! No more rectifier. Something about being suspended in the air, I guess. |
Vernon Ott
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2001 - 3:19 pm: |
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Back in the middle seventies an old friend of mine (SHAMROCK)used a three piece Browning base. It had a transmit box , a receive box , and a two tube amp box.I really admired that setup and no one else in the county sounded that good and that loud.Old (SHAMROCK) passed on some years ago but I beleive his son still has everything up in the attic.Does anyone else remember those old tube Browning base stations?Greenhornet |
HAM CBer
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 11:27 pm: |
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I would give about anything for another Browning Golden Eagle setup. I had one that got a factory upgrade to 40 channels! That upgrade cost me about $150.00, but was worth every penny as they went all through the radio and even replaced some of the tubes. What a sweet rig.
I sold it when I thought solid state was the only way to go and the big tube rig didn't fit in my dorm room. The Cobra mobile rig fit just fine. However, nothing melts my heart anymore like that CLANK when it keyed and the silky smooth audio it had. I'll bet the idoit I sold it to still has it.... |
707
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 12:00 pm: |
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Those have reached quite a collector status these days, with Mark III starting at around $250 and Mark IV regularly goes on EBAY for over $500 What a great sounding rig. |
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