Anyone Keep Their FCC License?

[stateboy]

KWI0911

Issued to the state for all CB's in the cruisers and base stations at HQ's. I found it in old policy from the 70's that we still had in binders on the shelf, which included how the CB was to be used and how you were to ID yourself while using it for official purposes.

Yeehaw

[oldsarge]

Originally Posted by impalass427

Yup, I still have mine, Effective 2-7-75. but the call numbers KMA 2913 go back 5 or more years before that when the license was $ 4, I think. I was so happy with the call sign because it started with KMA- just like on Dragnet and Adam-12. LOL. I still have my original base station, Radio Shack TRC-X23 ( Courier 23) and fire it up once a week, . I worked for Radio Shack while in high school. 1968-69. Don

KMA438 is or used to be the call letters for the San Francisco Police Department.

I still have my paper CB license someplace. I think the FCC just got tired of trying to police the band. They made a lot of money when they did. I still hear some of the 20 or more watt units out there playing king of the hill, oh and the good ol'days of skip. Did you know Skip? It was fun try to see how many different locations you could hook up with in an evening before skip died. CQ CQ CQ DX.... blah blah blah.

[radioman2001]

The reason the FCC stopped requireing licenses is because in 1974 or there about, they started charging $20.00 for it. A lot of people complained to Congree who saw that the FCC at that time had no provision in their charter to charge for frequencies.(look at them now). So the settlement was to have a free license for a period of time to kinda pay back the public for being charged in the first place. Well since no fee's meant no budget, they kinda just gave up worrying about CB.

[wnyemt628]

Never had one, but my dad did : KTI0001 - still on his old D-104 mic I have

[Mick]

I got mine in 1977, KAXY 5227, and it expired in 1982, a year before the FCC stopped issuing them. I just found it in my drawer.

[mike_gain]

KOK8465 1974ish. The temp zip code thing started when Pres G. Fords wife was granted a licence without waiting the 3 months or so. People were outraged, so the FCC created the temp callsign to be used while waiting on the licence.

[tekshogun]

Originally Posted by wnyemt628

Never had one, but my dad did : KTI0001 - still on his old D-104 mic I have

Nice, the the first in his series

[Wyandotte]

Kfr 1529.

[georgew0819]

Mine was KAMY7619 and I was also the youngest member of the area REACT. I spent alot on time monitoring channel 9 waiting to give information and then fill out the log book with their infor and the assistance given (ie directions, notifying the PD of a disabled vehicle or accident).

Who knew that would lead to a career as a Police Dispatcher and then a Fire Dispatcher. When I started dispatching for the PD we used to have a Navaho 23 Ch set to Ch9 that we monitored and I still remember taking accident calls on that.

[millrad]

I still have a copy of my old CB license, issued in 1975. Call letters were KTQ-3899, and it was issued in my mom's name because I was only 16 years old at the time! I spent lots of time on Channel 11 with the locals, and reading S9 Magazine....