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Bc910
Intermediate Member
Username: Bc910
Post Number: 281
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 7:54 pm: | 
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I think the subject says it all, How'd you get your handle? Who gave it to ya, you know, the whole story
BC |
Sodapop
Intermediate Member
Username: Sodapop
Post Number: 228
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 8:19 pm: |
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Well it seems to easy, but here you go.
When I was in my teens and into CB hard, I also drink WAY to much soda. So when I got on, I thought it would fit, and it did. 15 years later, and it has become me. My lic plate, a carved wooden Soda Pop sits in my room, and I still love the name. I haven't meet anyone else with it, so I guess it was a good choice!
BTW - I still drink soda, still to much, but not as bad as I did back in the day! |
Rficon
New member
Username: Rficon
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 8:53 pm: |
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Well I am a computer guy, always have been since my old IBM 8088.
Because of my knowledge of computers, I was given the handle "IKON" by my fellow radio heads here. I have fixed MANY local CBer's computers for them.
RFIcon |
Racer X (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 9:08 pm: |
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I worked at a pizza delivery place where lots of us had CBs and chatted all night long. My sister who worked there too was given the handle Speed Racer because of her lead foot. Naturally as Speed Racer's brother I was given the handle Racer X. It stuck. |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 290
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 10:06 pm: |
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I was at a NWA Championship wrestling match
years ago in my area./ A fight broke out
between Road Warrior Hawk And Animal and
some fans that were right in front of me./
Needless to say i didn't duck fast enough
and had some teeth knocked out by a Road
Warrior./ My Cb friends called me that and
it stuck./
JIM/CENTRAL PA/CEF 375 |
Lowpowerhal
Intermediate Member
Username: Lowpowerhal
Post Number: 396
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 11:09 am: |
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Back in the early days of CB around 1971 or so had a bunch of guys and girls that talked on channel 13 , Lot of them had footwarmers or heaters and at the time skip was coming out of the east coast states . I was making contact every time i keyed the mic.The local gang thought i was running kw or so, we had what you call coffee brakes at the time, and they wanted to see my station. Boy was they was all disapointed all that was on my desk was a little 23 channel Lafayette 924 with a tuner +2 mic, The anttenna was a trick stick mounted hoz and a alliance u-100 rotor.One day they said there he gos again lowpower making contacts all over the place. |
Hotwire
Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 56
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 12:20 pm: |
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I started out as Wired since all I did is work all the the time with never any sleep. Since I have an outragous personality my girlfriend added the word hot to it. I liked it, sounded original so it stuck. |
Bob_p
Advanced Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 687
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 2:17 pm: |
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Back in the 70's I was involved in two clubs and both used numbers. One was the Orange Oounty Desert Rats, and I was SC 125. Later I was with a Ohio Michigan radio club called Oscar Mary and I believe I was OM 68 or something really close to that.
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Mdiver
Intermediate Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 214
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 2:25 pm: |
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Mine is --------- Ok Lon I wont say any more |
Terry
New member
Username: Terry
Post Number: 5
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 4:02 pm: |
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My original CB handle was "slew foot" -- I have very large feet (size 15)! Bigfoot was already taken and Saskwatch was too hard to say! LOL!! |
Leonard
Intermediate Member
Username: Leonard
Post Number: 109
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 4:39 pm: |
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I got my handle from the movie convoy back in the 70's.
That was when I rode shot gun with a friend driving over the road.
I was stuck with the name,the love machine as a joke from the car I drove a 1968 dodge polara with 2,4 ft fire sticks mounted on the gutters up untill the wife drove it into a parking ramp with it.
They were just a little bit bent *oooops*.
And when I was married the wife did not like the handle so it was changed to L&M meaning less money.
pretty basic hey.
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Red_devil
Junior Member
Username: Red_devil
Post Number: 44
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 3:18 pm: |
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From 1982 to 1984 I just went by 392. I couldn’t quite find a name to fit so the numbers were the easy answer. These numbers are the first three digits of our phone number when I was growing up.
In 1984 I was working as a AAA tow-truck driver in South Florida. A few others and myself outfitted out trucks CBs to keep free up the work freq. A few of the others already had handles and numbers weren’t good enough. I guess they ganged up on me. Well…since I wasn’t the best young man in the world and I guess my exploits caught up with me, I was slapped with the Red Devil handle. Maybe it has something to do with my red hair and Fiery German/Irish heritage. I am much older and even-tempered nowadays. I have thought about changing it but I enjoy the tradition of being GIVEN your handle. I just can’t part with my numbers or name from those days in Florida. I will proudly use the CEF447, but the 392 is used everwhere except 13.
I think Road Warrior has the best story :-). But mine has history :-)
CEF447
Red Devil - 392 |
Mikefromms
Intermediate Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 447
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 6:24 pm: |
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I wanted something very original; so, I took my handle from the name of a Beatle's song on Abbey Road called SunKing. I've been the Sunking for almost 30 years.
mikefrommsq |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 296
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 6:35 pm: |
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The only thing history about my story
was my teeth...LOL |
Wendy
Member
Username: Wendy
Post Number: 90
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 6:38 pm: |
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When I first got into CB's I was looking for a handle. Nothing seemed to suit me. You want your handle to be an expression of yourself. I work with children and one day we happened to be watching a show called Black Buffalos Powow. His daughters name was Whitedove. He explained what the name meant, but after all these years I can't remember. I knew that was the handle for me. I've been Whitedove ever since.
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Inspector
Intermediate Member
Username: Inspector
Post Number: 125
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:35 pm: |
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My father gave me the handle "Litle Beaver", after the Leave it to Beaver TV show...way before "beaver" means what it means today. So neadless to say, I later changed it to "The Inspector" because I am a heavy construction inspector for an engineering firm. LOL!!! |
Coyote
Intermediate Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 100
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:37 pm: |
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Well, no one gave me my handle.. really, some guys I work with one day put this big picture of Wile E. Coyote up above my desk at work and had my name with an arrow pointing to it. I guess because I was always tinkering with things and had always repaired or built their computers for them plus my boss always told them I was a genius  only because they didn't have a clue of how to operate or work on computers and I was always the one they came to to fix or teach them how to do something, still do even though I don't work there, they still call me when they have a problem... guess that was the reference they intended.. Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. But my original handle year's ago was Calypso, which I came up with myself because I like the way it sounded. It came from Jacque Cousteau, it was the name of his ship he always used and I always watched his specials when I was young. When I got back into CB after 20 years off the air, I used the handle Old #7, my preferred drink and I live fairly close to Lynchburg and I collect Jack Daniels stuff. But no one around here could ever remember the "Old" part of it and called me just #7, which most of them still do. So I told one old guy that since he couldn't remember my real handle and called me by whatever he could think of, Maverick, Wrangler were just a few, I told him to just call me Coyote. Well... he hasn't forgotten that one yet.. so that's what I use, along with #7 as well. Long story, I'm sure your sorry you asked now. |
Mdiver
Intermediate Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 215
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 7:51 pm: |
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Ok Lon your turn
And I think 833 still needs a handle so maybe all can get to geather and give Paul a handle.
Most of the locals call me Muffy
and some call me buy my real handle
Steve-988 mdiver-or 252 when Im on skip |
Syklopz
New member
Username: Syklopz
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 - 10:46 pm: |
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I have excellent vision (20/15), in one eye. The other is not quite blind (20/400). So I have been Syklopz (Cyclops) the one eyed monster of mythology for years. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:17 am: |
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Good question!
For 56 years i suspect my dad wanted to get even so he thought of a name that would bring me the most greaf .........
And the rest is history that's how i got my handle!
Bruce |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 1000
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 - 11:58 am: |
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833 is just fine. Since the only time I ever get on 11m is for the CEF nets, no other is required. Thanks anyway. |
Truckerdon
Junior Member
Username: Truckerdon
Post Number: 10
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 6:00 pm: |
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I use to call my handle the Black Bug. I drove a 1969 VW Bug. I then chencged that to Ridge Runner, I use to run the woods though the Niagara Region of Ontario. I drove for a guy who was not class A licence. The DOT got to know my truck.
Since Ridge Runner has be taken by a few guys. I've taken up Coffee Hound on CB and on Side Band I use the CEF 336. I drink to much coffee.
Don
CEF 336 |
Cowboy_bob
Junior Member
Username: Cowboy_bob
Post Number: 15
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 5:54 am: |
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Bought my first horse back in 1992. Got into training horses, designing saddles and started riding amature rodeo at the ripe old age of 45. DUHHH! My trucking buddies "gave" me my handle. Most of them dont even know my first name. They just call me "Cowboy"
http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/spark/pics/cowboyrjb2.jpg |
Rob5mike
Intermediate Member
Username: Rob5mike
Post Number: 143
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 10:48 am: |
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I pulled milk tankers for 10 years and was known only as "The Milk Man" |
Cbblackbeard
Intermediate Member
Username: Cbblackbeard
Post Number: 161
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 11:02 pm: |
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I got into a pirate kick and thought Blackbeard was the coolest. I tried to use the name as a user name on some web site but it was taken, so I added the CB to it. I also have a black billy goat style beard and long black hair. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 4898
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 12:48 am: |
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CB Handle ~ Catfish or 808
When I was about 5 years old My father and Uncle took me catfishing and I caught one and when they were showing me how to get it off the hook it horned me.
I went to my uncles truck and got the jack handle and beat that cat FLAT and they said I was mean as a catfish.
Guess it stuck. 
The 808 comes from using Zebco 808 reels only for catfishing.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN  |
Skilletlicker
Intermediate Member
Username: Skilletlicker
Post Number: 183
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 7:17 am: |
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my firsy handle was # 1 due to an incident at a factory where i worked,the present handle skilletlicker was gave to me by a visiting relative when i was a young boy
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Allagator
Advanced Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 552
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 5:24 pm: |
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Allagator HUMMMMM ???? i wonder how i got that name !!! HE HE HE
my true name is Allagator Station !!! BIG MOUTH WITH NO EARS !!!!! i think that one has stuck with me for years !!!!
the first handle was fender bender from a moped wreck at 12 years old but i got older and now i know how to drive and talk on the radio !!! HE HE HE |
Sg569
Member
Username: Sg569
Post Number: 91
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 6:19 pm: |
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Shotgun, The first thing that I got aressted for.
A concealed weapon: (the barrel was only 12", so it fit under the seat of my car; it was pretty good for shooting crows) now even the local officers know me by that name oh well.
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Honkytonkman593
Intermediate Member
Username: Honkytonkman593
Post Number: 165
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 8:53 pm: |
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well mine just came to me one morning when i woke up. never was into country music in fact i hadnt ever heard of it as my dad was strictly into rock ( oldies). i just picked up the mic and said You all got Honky tonk man 10-8.. 10-10 on the side and boom it stuck. later honkytonkman593 out!! |
Red_devil
Member
Username: Red_devil
Post Number: 55
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 11:13 pm: |
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There sure are a lot of folks who have made up their own handles out there. Although some of the ones explained here seem to fit  CATFISH and SHOTGUN!!!!, I guess for the most part, the tradition of having others ISSUE you the handle has died .
Well the only constant in the world is change .
CEF447
Red Devil - 392
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Pig040
Advanced Member
Username: Pig040
Post Number: 698
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 11:42 am: |
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My AM name is Desperado, and here goes.
As a lot of you know I am a retired cop, and in the days before they started making plasic seats for the back of cop cars, the bad guys would dump dope, knives, guns, money down the back seat, so when they got booked, they wouldnt get busted with contraband. Well every car I used I tore the bottom of the back seat loose from the mountings.
One day in Roll call, the supervisor was all peeved off, and said "Ok who is the desperado who is tearing the back seat out of police cars??" No one said anything to him, but from then on Desperado I was!!!!!! An am.
Rich |
Sg569
Member
Username: Sg569
Post Number: 94
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 12:43 pm: |
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Actually, Red Devil my buddies started calling me that after I got popped w/ it. |
Ohiobiker
Member
Username: Ohiobiker
Post Number: 96
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 8:20 am: |
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My original handle Super Sport came from my 1969 427-Chevy Impala SS with factory 4-speed and a super built Truck 427 special ordered from the chevy plant call a Power Plant ( came mostly in large Chevy trucks). Later with some mods to he motor it was pushing an easy 575HP thus giving me the #"575" as I have used for DXing and all of the time on SSB. Later in life I owned a Country-Western bar and picked up the name Bartender no mater where I was in person at work or on the radio. I am also a Trans-America Club Member 5275 and a PROUD Member of CEF-309. A lot of calls to remember But the one you'll hear me use the Most Is "575" of Central OHIO. Been useing it for over 35yrs so if you hear me feel free to Holler at me....GOD Bless and I'l be listening...Walter "575" in Central Ohio |
Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 117
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:45 am: |
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Hey Ohiobiker! What freq. are you on most? I live just over in Indiana 20 miles south of Indianapolis. We have alot of strong sideband stations here.
Hotwire 491
27.115 AM SSB Sunday mornings
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Ssonnentag
New member
Username: Ssonnentag
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:58 pm: |
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I drive fast. What can I say. One guy started telling me to keep it down to light speed and soon people were all calling me lightspeed. So LIGHTSPEED it is.  |
Weatherman49
New member
Username: Weatherman49
Post Number: 7
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:02 pm: |
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I was given mine in the mid 80's by an older couple called Peaches and Nut buster I never knew how they got thiers so don't ask. any way Iwas about 14 and took my dads handle of silver streak. He had a silver 70 GTO and a lead foot! Ihad been talking for a couple of months when I decided I needed my own. The couple had no tv and I would always give them the weather reports from the local station and the scanner (NOAA) I asked them for help finding a handle and naturally since I was their weather reporter they called me the weatherman and it stuck! been him for 20 years now! But I guess the best one I heard was a friend of mine got his because of an accident! he was ran over by a 948 Bobcat (landscaping machine) He lived to tell about it because it buried him in the mud so we called him 948 or Bobcat! Heck of a way to get a handle ya think! |
Beantown
Junior Member
Username: Beantown
Post Number: 45
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 12:58 am: |
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Well lets see. I started on the CB my Dad had when I was eleven years old. The CB was an old hallicrafter crystal set that ya had to change the crystals in if ya wanted to go anywhere beyond seven channels. I used to talk to the local old foggies at night and had to use a kitchen stool to reach the radio which was perched on top of the refrigerator. I use to use my dads CB call sign, but the locals wanted to call me by a handle. "The Kid" stuck at first then one of them asked me what my last name was. Boston is my last name and wouldn't ya know there just happened to be a transplant from Boston on the local channel. "Beantown" has stuck ever since!
See ya,
CEF 260 |
Kilowatt
Intermediate Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 158
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 8:40 pm: |
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I got my handle due to the fact that I used to run an old Collins KW-1 transmitter. It was built back when the hams still had 11 meters as one of their bands. So, I guess you could say it was already set up for CB.
It was a big 600 pound thing, and would do a little over a kilowatt input on AM. Man, did it have a great sound to it!
I traded the KW-1 off several years ago, but I still use the handle.
Here's a link to a picture and info. about these big transmitters.
http://www.wa3key.com/kw1.html |
Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 218
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:05 am: |
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WOW Kw thanks for posting that. Never knew such a thing existed. I'm a history buff and I love stuff like that. Education from others is how I know what I know today and I'm pretty knowledgable if I do say so myself. If I ever find one of those Collins I will be buying it working or not! For now I'm stuck with my connex 4800 dxl a fine radio I might add and BTW I believe you own one too. Great minds think alike?
Oh yeah, What kind of antenna did you use with your Collins? Wonder if an Imax would work or would you need something similar to those days? Some kind of big heavy metal antenna. |
Kilowatt
Intermediate Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 162
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:54 pm: |
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Hi Hotwire,
If I'm lucky, I usually learn a couple of new things a day, too. Thanks for the compliment; I really like learning new things, too!
I used a four-element Cubex cubical-quad beam fed with RG-213 coax. I had the beam mounted on a tower at about 50 feet, and used a HD 73 rotor to turn it.
The old Collins would output about 500-600 watts carrier, and had high level plate modulation. So, it would really "do it's thing."
An Imax 2000 would work fine, I'd imagine. You know, I've got to get one of those things as everybody really speaks highly of them.
I also ran the Collins to a 160 meter "full-wave horizontal loop" at about 50 feet. I used a Johnson Kilowatt antenna tuner to allow me to operate all of the HF ham bands it.
I wish I had a 4800 dxl, but unfortunately, I don't... My neighbor has one in his tow-truck, though. I really like messing aroud with his 4800. He's got an old Gray 300 hooked to it, and they made a great combination. Maybe I'll be able to trade him out of the radio one day :-)
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Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 227
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 8:04 am: |
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Really cool kilowatt. Thanks for the comeback. Keep a lookout for a 4800. I use mine with an Imax about 39 feet up. Been making overseas contacts lately from here in Indiana. The 4800 sounds remarkable. The Imax has taken my DX hobby to the next level. Wish I would of bought one sooner. I seen one out there with your name on it!
Oh yeah I have a cobra xl 350 hooked to my 4800. Run it on low at all times unless the noise gets too high. Man does it make the radio loud. Only let the radio swing about 40 watts so sideband sounds great. AM now and then when I feel like a ratchet jaw. But I gotta give all the credit to my antenna. Be reading the mail for ya man! 73 |
Kilowatt
Intermediate Member
Username: Kilowatt
Post Number: 170
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 11:01 pm: |
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Good Deal - My neighbor has been eyeing an old Ft-101ZD that I have. I may see if we can work out a deal towards his 4800! He's working on his general class license, so he could probably use an HF radio in the near future.
Is your Cobra XL350 the one with 2SC2879s?
73 |
Kid_vicious
Intermediate Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 345
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 12:11 am: |
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i got my handle froma trucker when i was 12. i keyed up and said break 19 for a radio check and he came back and asked what my handle was.
i told him it was Sid Vicious because i thought the band "The S#x Pistols" was really cool. (hey, i was 12!) when he found out how old i was, he said, "sheeeooot, youre nuthin' but a kid. i think i'll call you "Kid" vicious.
and the rest is history.
matt |
Ibacbfreq
New member
Username: Ibacbfreq
Post Number: 4
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 3:12 pm: |
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My wife gave me the handle "Big macho bunny killer" 'caus the kids let her show rabbits free after she said we were going to eat them. They were big and made a mess out of the yard and started to dig under the foundation of my 35'x70' 1950's dary barn. I was trying to kill them with little sucsess. Then one day I got one and was so proud that I showed her, that was when it got up and ran away. She started to call me Big macho bunny killer [mostly in public] so now I am "bunny killer" I tryed to give myself the handle "bones" IE DR macoy from star treck but everyone just called me "boney" 'caus I was so thin. That is what you get for makeing your own handle. |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 657
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
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got my 1st radio from my uncle, a truck driver. he just called me 'pat' . as cb craze took off in 73-74, more 'adults', you know over 20 years old, got cb's. i was still the 'kid', & somebody down the street said 'oh yeah, your parents have the MATADOR in the driveway, right?' a '72 AMC rebel matador(unfortunately not a rebel machine, but hey, i was only 12, so it didn't matter!). so he started calling me 'matador', of which i still have some of my original DX qsl cards. anyway, on ch 6 during infamous blackout of 1977 & talking on my ft101e & maco amp, somebody went mobile when their power went out. they were trying to get info & asked my 2-0. when i told 'em where i was , he asked how much power i was running. he thought i said 8 watts & said NO WAY. i said-NO NO NO 8 HUNDRED-8-ZERO-ZERO! zero-zero stuck as quickly as matador did, because my locals would tease me for the next few days about my tone/anger at having to repeat ZERO-ZERO . running 1 of the bigger bases of the time obviously lead to a BIG mobile. when talking dx from my mobile in 79-early 80's, there were a few regulars who always said -can't be a mobile, gotta be a base! 'no way, just double zero in my baby pickup truck' .
still have 3 or 4 people that ONLY call me matador, otherwise it's 'double-zero-baby-pickup-truck on my island in new york'. |
The_valiant_kid
New member
Username: The_valiant_kid
Post Number: 3
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:19 am: |
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I got my handle from the locals they called me Junk Boy as I was the youngster on the band @ the time and all I had to them was Junk they all had Cobra 2000's and Presedent Madisons and such but all I had was a dipole homebrew that my pepe GOD BLESS him had set up in the basement for me and my bro it hada real beat up sattlelite 3 pcs unit but workrd nicely .Some of The OldTimers that are still around call me that to this day as all I have is tubes tubes and more tubes!!!!!! But the newer crew as they call themselves call me the Valiant Kid as I run a 500 watt 1957 Johnson Valiat Transmitter With A 1950 Hammerlund HQ 129s Receiver Nothin Like The Plate Modulation AWSOME!!!!Though I Do have A Galaxy Dx2527 The newer stuff just doesn't come pair and you will never get that sound so All I use is my Johnson That I fully Restored My Self!!!!It Rocks in The Dx Takea Look At The Photo Section You'll See The Junk For Yourself!!!You Deside !!The Valiant Kid-
Junk Boy On The North Side Of The East Coast |
Carls86fiero
New member
Username: Carls86fiero
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 5:14 pm: |
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Brings back memories. in the mid 70's i went by and still do on (am) as Helter Skelter....i lived in turmoil...bedlam was all around me. |
Dxmodulator
Junior Member
Username: Dxmodulator
Post Number: 20
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 11:50 pm: |
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DX Modulator was something I came up with for a user name here at Copper, I don't use it on air....My local handel is Coyote. CEF net handle is CEF436. Sorry you can't here me on the AM net....there is never any good conditions here in New Mexico. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2415
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:05 am: |
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BRUCE .....
My mom liked to play jokes... |
Sonny
Junior Member
Username: Sonny
Post Number: 34
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:21 pm: |
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In a land of am operating a long long time ago early 70's my am handle was Yukon, since I spent Two Years in a remote site along the Yukon river in Aklaska via the USAF 5072 |
Nwleadfoot
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Username: Nwleadfoot
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 1:20 am: |
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I normally think of handles that fit my interests, or something about me. I was "Cabbie", when I was a cab driver. I think my very first handle was "Robin Hood" cause I was learning about archery. I have big feet as well, so I'm often Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, (being part Cherokee Indian). Now I go by "Leadfoot" where I live, cause of my heavy foot when driving, lol. |
Crackerjack
Intermediate Member
Username: Crackerjack
Post Number: 278
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 4:02 am: |
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"One Eyed Jack" My name is John and I have one eye.
But my wife called me her little "CrackerJack" when I joined the Navy so many years ago. Remember the little sailor in his dress blues -on the CrackerJack box?
My friends are a little uncomfortable about my eye, so Vicky wins out. |
Kid1
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Username: Kid1
Post Number: 3
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 2:39 am: |
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mines "Salt Shaker" because i live in the salt city & drive a freightshaker!(freightliner semi)
kid was given to me by the old fart that taught me to drive a truck many moons ago. |
Sthrnredneck
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Username: Sthrnredneck
Post Number: 9
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 12:37 pm: |
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I got my handle from my friends at school. When i chopped my thumb off on a table saw at school they nicknamed me Stubby and it carried over when we all got our drivers license and CB's in our trucks.
CEF-592/Stubby |
Dale
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Username: Dale
Post Number: 115
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 3:18 pm: |
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my handle is hotrod .when i first started it was roadrunner cause growing up the carton roadrunner/coyote was my fav. as years went by more and more i heard others going by that so i changed it to hotrod.as i got older i love 2 look at those old muscle cars of the 60s and70s and still do. |
Slugo4449
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Username: Slugo4449
Post Number: 30
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 5:54 pm: |
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I remember walking into the managers office one day with another co-worker. I could hear him on the phone talking about us and we could hear him say, "I have nothing but SLUGS and LAMERS working for me".
I figured since I was not an injured employee and the other guy I was with was, that the manager meant the Slug part for me.
Hence, I became Slugo! The 4449 was my actual employee number. Thank God I am retired now!
All you young folks please keep working hard so I can continue to collect my Social Security! |
Nobodyknows
Junior Member
Username: Nobodyknows
Post Number: 30
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 6:21 pm: |
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About 22 years ago... I had this totally rusted out 73 Chevy Blazer 4X4. On or in or driving around the dunes at the beach in Port Aransas, Texas, some people i had met earlier that day were trying to get ahold of me on the CB for some forgotten reason now.. (stuck in the sand?) I heard in my recieve> "Hey, How bout that guy in that RUSTBUCKET" I laughed and answerd to it..
It kinda stuck with me and I still go by it..
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Mikefromms
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Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 662
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 8:56 pm: |
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I wanted something no one would likely have; so, I took my handle from a Beatle's song on their Abbey Road album called SunKing. I have gone by SunKing since 1976.
mikefrommms |
Night_owl
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Username: Night_owl
Post Number: 6
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:01 am: |
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Originally I was Wildman. Most everyone I know calls me this, even my boss at work. Few people would ride in a rear wheel drive with me, always a little (ok alot) sideways. HA HA. But another local was using it so my wife said since I'm up all night and sleep all morning I was a Night Owl. |
Wolverine
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Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 370
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 4:21 am: |
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When I was a little shy kid going to school, the bullies used to kick my butt everyday and take my lunch money. This lasted for a couple of semesters. My parents wondered why was I losing so much weight, when they gave me money everyday. One day my uncle suspected something, and snuck up to my elementary school and witnessed a tall kid beating the tar out of me. My uncle broke up the fight, got my lunch money back, and days later enrolled me into some after school boxing and wrestling classes. A year and a half later, I had gained 25 lbs of muscle, my confidence in my new skills was at an all time high, and I made it my personal mission to beat the crap out of every bully who had ever terrorized me, as well as take their money. And because I made it a point to always fight the guys who was bigger, taller, or who I thought was badder than myself, my uncle nicknamed me the "Little Wolverine", because I would never, ever, give up. He told me the a real "Man" can only die once, but a coward dies a thousand deaths. My uncle changed my life, rest his soul.
Wolverine. |
Tech808
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Username: Tech808
Post Number: 6179
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:55 am: |
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Wolverine,
You had a very smart Uncle and I am sure that every time he looks down from heaven upon you he has a big smile on his face. 
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
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Wolverine
Intermediate Member
Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 372
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 7:08 am: |
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I really hope so Tech 808. |
Therealporkchop
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Username: Therealporkchop
Post Number: 213
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:46 pm: |
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Porkchop......I got it cause I don't like Porkchops cause I was made to eat too many of them as a kid. That and dag-on tomatoes and rice, yuk!! It bad to live in the South. |
Heavyweight
Junior Member
Username: Heavyweight
Post Number: 14
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:56 pm: |
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Thats an easy one!My wife gave me my handle(heavyweight) because im 6ft 7in tall and weigh around 300 pounds and no its not fat.Well....maybe a very little is fat,after all i am a trucker! |
Vanillagorilla
Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 63
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 10:54 am: |
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Member of the Montauk Surfcasters Association. My Plate # 905..hence "905".
As for Vanilla Gorilla...thats a given name. Sounds a bit more friendly than my past given name "Rage"....'spose I had a short fuse at one time. Although I think my kids might agree to the later lately.
Went by "poncho" early on when I first got my Drivers licence..had (still HAVE) a few GTO's.
If fact just dropped an OLD 148 in my '72 "driver" this past week.
Hank '905 |
Therealporkchop
Intermediate Member
Username: Therealporkchop
Post Number: 219
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 12:24 am: |
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I have Indian in my blood line...I'm a member of the Smack-A-Ho Tribe....
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Ajm1571
Junior Member
Username: Ajm1571
Post Number: 39
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 12:37 am: |
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My Handle on AM is Warlock. My dad gave that handle alomst 25 yrs ago. I was a bad kid and he said I was like a male witch. Could get out of trouble with a blink of an eye...lol. He went by Lightning Bolt because he was struck by lightning 3 times and lived to tell about it. When I Dx I go by 015 from round the great lakes and of course I am CEF565 on Net |
Outkast
Junior Member
Username: Outkast
Post Number: 47
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 1:13 am: |
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Got mine when I was hanging out in a local town with a bunch of CB'ers and I was allways off by myself being the outcast hence the handle "Outkast" Of course I had to add the gramatical error being the outcast that I am.
Outkast
CEF 650 |
Tomcatinva
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Username: Tomcatinva
Post Number: 80
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 5:32 pm: |
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When ever I am on AM I go by... Yup, you guessed it TomCat. By chance they are also my initials (TC). But my Dad actually called me that many years ago way before the Navy even dreamed about the F14 Bird, I guess because I was always out "Cat'n" around.  So that has always stuck with me. The insignia is just fitting for me I guess...
TomCat in VA. CEF217 |
Karls357
Junior Member
Username: Karls357
Post Number: 17
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 7:50 pm: |
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i USE my NAME and list my personal protection device SMITH & WESSON MODEL 686 |
Knottyboy
Junior Member
Username: Knottyboy
Post Number: 17
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:01 am: |
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I enjoy woodworking, and work a lot with Knotty Pine. Hence the name knottyboy is appropriate, enven though I have become the "ole man" at work.
73
ole man knottyboy |
Sinker
Intermediate Member
Username: Sinker
Post Number: 186
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 6:43 pm: |
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I signed up here as Sinker because that is what I go by on Sportfishing Sites - why? I sink better than I swim but take my boat out through some crazy stuff anyway so thats what they started calling me.
Was talking with my Dad the other night, mentioned I really didn't like Sinker so much especially for the radio. He suggested HAMMERHEAD for a number of reasons: 1) I love to catch them. 2) It was my goal to put a picture of me with a HammerHead Shark next to the picture of my Dad with his HammerHead Shark for about two years before I finally caught my first one. 3) He is a retired Marine with over 260 combat missions during Vietnam and his call sign was HammerHead and he thought it would be neat if I carried the name even if I did my time in the Army - He still gives me hard time about that.
I might just go ahead and go with HammerHead_634.
I know I don't want to give myself a handle as that just seems weird, plus I am not very clever.
Tim
CEF-634
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Spydrman
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Username: Spydrman
Post Number: 67
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 6:21 pm: |
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If you remember the song for spyderman, "Nobody knows who you are" I can talk all I want behind the mic but nobody can put a face to it.... |
Outkast
Member
Username: Outkast
Post Number: 55
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 9:24 pm: |
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I cant belive a post like this was able to die off for 4 months with nobody posting on it, glad I revived it and brought it back up on the board. It is intresting how some of you guys got your handles.
Outkast
CEF 650 |
Hoskinmage
Junior Member
Username: Hoskinmage
Post Number: 36
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 1:07 pm: |
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i used to go by snowman for some of the reasons that a lot of us old times got it from, but one day my friend and i went to the cb doctor and unknown to me the tech sliped in a toy of a crybaby,it would cry 3 times and then a voice of an old man came on and says stop that d---crying.it kinda stuck |
Navyrebel782003
Junior Member
Username: Navyrebel782003
Post Number: 49
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 06, 2005 - 12:34 am: |
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Mine was in high school, all my friends told me I was a "rebel" due to the fact my mom would tell me to be home at midnight, and I was, but not on friday night, usually around sunday night, never getting into trouble but just would not listen, as most teenage boys would, well it's now 12 years later and people there still dont know my real name. |
