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Remember your CB radio call sign?

cheryllynn84

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Ok, I guess I'm an amateur, but I thought you meant what was your handle. LOL. What is a CB radio call sign anyway? I drove a truck for 3 years and am embarrassed that I don't know.
 

TheSpaceMann

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Ok, I guess I'm an amateur, but I thought you meant what was your handle. LOL. What is a CB radio call sign anyway? I drove a truck for 3 years and am embarrassed that I don't know.
The FCC gave them out to CBers for many years! They had to fill out FCC form 505, submit the application, and pay a fee. Lots of CBers even had their own QSL cards printed up! ;)
 

paranoia11

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The FCC gave them out to CBers for many years! They had to fill out FCC form 505, submit the application, and pay a fee. Lots of CBers even had their own QSL cards printed up! ;)
I had my own, 2 different ones , but I never kept any, or if I did I have lost them.
 

KK4JUG

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My first call sign was 17W3288. Then the FCC was informed that some of those prefixes were actually assigned to other countries. Mine was rescinded and I got KGI3126.

I still have my 3rd class radiotelephone license. They were issued to on-air commercial radio station employees way back when and you were warned that you couldn't give a false "Mayday" and weren't supposed to use foul language on the air. There was no test. You signed a form that confirmed the fact that you knew all the rules.

Am I old or what?
 

WA2E

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Well. about '65 I was too young for a CB license so my Dad filled out the license form. WE got KBL-4440. I will never forget that callsign. It seems like a mouth full. Good days. Technical ops, many antenna parties and coffee breaks. Being 15 these were good times till the CB hit the big time, It was all downhill after that. I was out of radio for a number of years till I got my ham license in '85.

Mike WA2E
 

w8prr

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Just like WA2E, in 1965 I was too young for a license so my Dad filled out form, well, I did with his name on it, and he got KNM4555. Local Fire Dept. was KNM2030 ( I still have on of their Utica Town & Country radios) and neighbor had 19W5679 but his was replaced with KNM0157. (wish I could remember something that would make me money)
 

TinPan

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Surprised no one answered this, Im a CB'r from all the way back in the early 60's, I will never forget my call sign was KMD7523. I sometime's still use it.
 

TheSpaceMann

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Surprised no one answered this, Im a CB'r from all the way back in the early 60's, I will never forget my call sign was KMD7523. I sometime's still use it.
I knew lots of CBers with KMD call signs back in 1965 in the Bronx!!
 
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