Old FCC CB License?

[TheSpaceMan]

Originally Posted by steve9570

My old CB tube rig ran hot enough to keep my room warm in the winter!
Funny I hooked up a CB I have around and still a lot of "skip" on ch 6 and 11 during the day.
not like the old days though.

Steve KCP-2441 Boston Mass 1973 ( EX WA1-BZG)

I had a Lafayette HB-115A, a Comstat 25 and a Courier 23 plus. I remember them warming my room on a cold winter's night with the snow falling outside my window, chatting until almost dawn with just a wire hanging out of my window! I recently hooked one up and went through the channels, remembering all the guys I used to chat with every day. Today, besides when the skip rolls in, I just hear lots of empty channels.

[Chaznsc]

My dad had one in the 70s....KAX-8745 and I have no idea how I still recall it.

[TheSpaceMan]

Originally Posted by Chaznsc

My dad had one in the 70s....KAX-8745 and I have no idea how I still recall it.

There are some things you just never forget. I still remember the first time I actually spoke with someone over a radio!

[Digitalcool]

All that CB stuff was exciting. I started out with walkie-talkies like most, but "upgraded" to a Radio Shack Archer Space-Patrol Base Station around 1971. It transmitted on 27.125 (Ch 14, natch) with the included crystal, but you could swap that out for any other channel. It also tuned the AM broadcast band, which was handy when you got bored with vainly trying to contact someone (100 Mw, lol). The best thing about it was the variable tuner that received all 23 channels... that's what really opened up the world of Citizen's Band to me. I might not have been able to be heard most of the time, but I listened and learned a lot about operating procedure back when most were still observing rules. It left a lasting impression on a 13 year old. Several years (and walkie talkies later) I sent away for my license and was christened KBO 2842. I still have my ticket and it is presented here in all it's waterlogged and mildewed glory (childhood address blurred out of course). I got my radios from Western Auto and the like, as they were much more reasonably priced than the RS units of the day. I became a charter member of the Bi-State Ratchet Jaws CB Club (our mascot was the "Jaws" shark) and continued into the early 1980's (still using proper operating procedure) until pandemonium on the band finally made me weary of the whole thing. I'm glad I first got into it before it snowballed into a real fad and things went nuts...

[bundy125]

My folks got into CBing around 1966. They had Pearce-Simpson Companion II's for both mobile and base, and KMT-2317 was their license number. As I got older, I traded around an got a Regency Range Gain II which I used as a mobile for the longest. Got my license in 74... KWZ-3928. Still have a Regency Range Gain II today.

[Michael-SATX]

Digitalcool, wow my first CB was also a Radio Shack Archer Space-Patrol 4-Way Base Station
My dad got me this toy for Christmas in 1972 when I was age 8 with Space Patrol Walkie Talkies.
Those were simple and fun times and almost every kid in Windcrest had Walkie Takies so we always
could chat and play around the neighborhood riding our bikes ~ who needed cell phones anyway right ?
I installed a tiny light bulb inside so I could even see the AM/CB dial under the covers at nightime.
These little gems ran on 6 D batteries and yeah it only had a whopping 100mw but for $34.95 = kid heaven !
With it's Morse Code key we would have secret signals to each other - I only recall SOS in code now days.

There just may be some folks that have not seem this real blast from the past website !!!
So let your mouse turn the pages of the past and have a smile as you wander down Radio Shack lane
So stop on by RadioShackCatalogs ( dot ) com and click "general catalogs", pick a year and try the small version links.

This link takes you to 1973, click to page 54-55 for that CB Base Station and also my 100mw Chrome TRC-4 2CH CB WT.

1973 Radio Shack Catalog
( flip through to pages 54-55 for these nostalgic little CB gems ) These were a right of passage through my childhood !

[NYRHKY94]

Digitalcool:

Thanks for posting the image of your real license. I am truly envious, even with the stains LOL. Given that mine is long gone and not recoverable, your post and picture is exactly what I needed to bring the memories streaming back. I started out with a 3-channel walkie from RS (crsytals of course) and got my license in 72 or 73. And yes, most of us back then acted properly on the air and even signed on and off with our call signs. KFN-8417 on the side.

[mass-man]

KKT 1779! Yea some things you never forget! Globestar, five channel, five watt, to a 102 inch whip at the apex of the roofline! Nights were the best...talking over 50 miles to friends I would never meet. But one day my mother had a kitchen accident, I was too young to drive, could not get my Dad on the phone, so put out a call on the CB and a fellow showed up at the house that took us to the hospital, and stayed until she got stitches and brought us both back home...and of course would not accept even gas money!!!

[MichaelE]

I haven't seen my old license in decades.

3's...KATD-7519

[brey1234]

I have fond memories on my days on 11 meters! My call sign KPQ6709
Some of the rigs: a Comstat 25--a cobra Cam 88 and even a Tram--(what a radio!)
Was active until 76--but the QRM and the idiots were just too much--studied and got my ham license!
I still have a Radio Shack CB rig in the car--primarily for use in traveling.

[W9NES]

I have a copy of my license for 27 Mhz communications on my wall in my comm center from 10-11-82. I still montor CB channel 9 in my area and have answered a lot of calls from the public.I do monitor channel 9 in my car with the rest of my emergency communications radios that I have in my car.

[ka8byu]

My old call was KET-1707 got it back in 1971-72 and i still use it on 11 meters today, have a 40 channel rs rig in the car . and a couple vintage rigs regency range gain II and an rs trc-24c
and i still have my fcc restricted permit from civil air patrol days too
as well as my ham call ka8byu

[N5TWB]

Old call from about 1973-74 was KHL-5158. I used Pace 23 channel equipment and upgraded to a Pace SSB unit that was eventually stolen from my car while I was in college, along with a linear amp. I also had a CRB Research Registered Monitoring Station ID - KOK5AP. I used Regency 8 and 10-channel scanners, crystals of course. I still have both of the scanners but tossed the old Midland SSB-CB in a move. Should have kept that to fool around with on 10m.

[FUZZBUSTER]

I still rember the old days, in '78 Got a Ground plane shoved in one of the vent pipes on the roof of my Apt. complex, had a RS right be the driveway, and a Mobil CB hooks to a 12v power converter and a 10 channel scanner with a button lockout under each red light, and took cyrstals ,Had to look up the Dept. in a book at RS and get the new Crystal out of a Plano box, and it cost $15 each, Stayed up all night on the weekend helping to be the Base staition for a new Security Co. just starting out for the Apts, I would listen for any HPD calls at there Properties, and told them on the CB, So they could beat the Police to the scene and look like the Heroe's...

This is FUZZBUSTER
KBST-4464, Sharptstown Base Signing out.
Good Night Ya'll..

[KC8ESL]

There has to be some micro-fische(sp??) Somewhere with data on it. Isn't there?

[LtDoc]

KC8ESL,
Try the Library of Congress, they have a copy of everything. Of course, you'll have to know exactly what you are looking for, the name it's filed under. Good luck!
- 'Doc

[Darth_vader]

KDMC810 was my Grampa, and anybody'd be d---ned if he didn't use that call right up to the day he died. When he did die in 2010 I "memorialised" it in my then-handle of "Zero Junior". I've since gone back to calling myself "WILDCAT" on the air, which had been my original handle that I's used since either age nine or 10 when I first keyed up.

(Oh yeah, 17's kind of our "superbowl" channel around these parts. Lots of cranks and weirdos on there, too.)

[rembrant]

KKF 5716
I started my "shack" with a 23 channel J.C. Penny "PINTO"
transmitting from the Bodacious Blue Streak base station.
Here is a fillable (I Hope) CB License form.

[markbart]

That works great.

Mark

[TheSpaceMan]

Originally Posted by rembrant

KKF 5716
I started my "shack" with a 23 channel J.C. Penny "PINTO"
transmitting from the Bodacious Blue Streak base station.
Here is a fillable (I Hope) CB License form.

Nice! What year did you get that? The KKDs were around 1964.