Anyone remember the CB days?
If so what was your "handle"? Mine was "Tin Man". (Built Butler Buildings)
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...Yeah, and really dont miss 'em...great way to find out where the "smokies" were, but really good radar detectors do that now..."got cha' wall to wall tree top tall good buddy"...
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Freight Train. Got your ears on good buddy?
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Breaker, breaker 19! Remember those days well but never really got into it.
If I remember right weren't they called the Appalachian telephones or telegraph or something like that??
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UFO
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Before the weird one of the world corrupted it ,I was the RainbowRider.From CCR song Joy to the world .
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You shake the trees and I'll rake the leaves.
Someone is walking all over you.
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When I was a kid, one of our neighbors was seriously into all sorts of radios and communication devices. He even had those radio-typewriters that could talk back and forth. Now I'm wondering if he might have been a Soviet Spy!
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Funny, we were just talking about that today, my handle was Wild Weasel which my buds shortened to Wheezy.
Wow, looking back, that was some silly fad but it was fun and I actually met some really cool folks along the way.
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It was helpful for real-time weather and traffic, but got overtaken by azzwipes and potty mouths. I honestly cannot remember my "handle" and haven't had a CB in a vehicle in decades. But I can remember when you had to apply to the FCC for a registered identifier, and had to have it displayed on your vehicle.
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I remember,,,
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The Snapchat of the ‘70’s.
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My handle was “BUSHWACKER”. That was what I named my 68 Bronco that I bought in 1970 and still have!
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Yep, remember it well. Never was really all that much involved in that craze. Logging roads/jobs still use CB communications. So log trucks, crew pickups ("crummies" in logger lexicon) etc. are equipped with CBs.
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Yes remember it alot. Had one in my 76 impala custom. Was chocho charlie
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Rolling around in my 74 Mustang II....(yeah it was a real turd)...Handle was Hornet70....My HS football team and jersey number...because I was still in high school..
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KADW 4901- the Daddy Rabbit. In 1999, we were relocating our home from Colorado to VA- and driving 2 vehicles. My darling wife could get lost in a phone booth. I put a CB in both vehicles, set down on channel 10- and the 2 of us kept in touch for the entire 1700 mile trip. Tucked my lady in behind, let her know when we needed to stop, (or vice versa), which way to turn, lane changes, etc. Worked great.
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I was licensed as KZR 0376 . . Ran a 500 watt linear on the base station .Daddy long legs had a 2000 watt, Palomar coupled to a set of moonraker beams . Was a React member for years .I still have 4 or 5 radios and a linear laying around in the shop
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I still have my standing wave meter
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but never had a handle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss0 -
camaro kid ( but they were hundreds with the same handle ) mostly I never used my CB handle
but I did use the CB for bear reports and also at that time seemed like every one had one I could not count the times I would call out and say you in the brown chevy , buick , dodge , caddy or what ever get the hell out of the way and out of the fast lane I am coming thru 98% it worked LOL
also used the PA speaker but that resulted mostly to be flipped off by some girl walking on the side walk 😥
I had a uncle ( RIP ) who had some "hot jacked up base station and huge antenna with boosters that was suppose to have been illegal due to the power it put out ) at that time I never ask many questions about what he had set up he went by iron man ( because he had a junk yard not the super hero )
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Tooling down the road in my old '73 Trans Am 455SD......I was The RacquetMan (which after about 40 years.....competitive racuetball has pretty much come to an end.....injuries....it's the "miles", not the years.......).
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I had one in the 67 Mustang and used "Lonesome GI" has my handle Mid to late 70;s we used to travel all over the southwest to go to dances with 4 or 5 other friends and we all drove our own cars... looking back it was a waste of gas but a lot of fun, the cb let us communicate during our trips.
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It just came back to me. I went by "Chestnut"
(Not a leg man, LOL!)
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My Neighbor when I was a teen was a volunteer fireman and they had CB's, Scanners, flashing lights and sirens on their vehicles. I used to always get scolded for talking trash on the radio LOL, we always knew what was going down, I never had a Handle.
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My FIL had one in his company car. His handle was Little Joe. He also had a scanner he kept on in his man cave (way before man caves were invented). Living in the Detroit metro area there were a lot of interesting calls coming in on that scanner. The best ones were the private messages between guys and gals that were thought to be PRIVATE behind closed doors kind of stuff! A lot of X rated foreplay on Friday nights! 😲
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kws3976
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In the early 80's when my best friend and I got licenses to drive and then got cars...........we thought it would be cool to have CB radios to communicate.
The only thing we accomplished was pissing off a bunch of truckers with our chatter.
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Yes I remember those days. The best experience I had was I used to get off of work at 9 pm and drive through the night to visit my fiancee, now my wife.
It was an 8 hour drive so I drove through the night. Being that I was on the road in the early morning hours I tended to move right along.
I passed a State trouper in the median at about 3 am and as I said I was moving right along, at the time I was driving a Monte Carlo.
All of a sudden the CB came on and it was the State Trouper. He just said, "Hey you in the beige Monte Carlo back off a little".
I thought for sure I was going to get a speeding ticket when I passed him at the speed I was going.
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Back in those days we made annual pilgrimages from Kentucky to my old home town in Texas, I-65 to I-40.
One afternoon as we were rolling through the Texas Panhandle somebody broadcast there was a smokie in the other lane.
Loudmouth in my lane said not to worry since he was on the other side.
I replied that that didn't matter, they could cross the median.
About that time the trooper U-turned across the median and nailed somebody.😊
Back then I-40 split and west-bound went through "down-town" McClean, Tx, population under 5,000.
Another know-it-all commented that he'd hate to live in a town that small.
I replied that it had it advantages -- hard to get in trouble when so many folks were minding your business for you!!!
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