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Remember your CB radio call sign?
- Thread starter TheSpaceMan
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My old CB call sign was KQT-0791. I had actually forgotten it, but I still have one of my original radios (Midland 13-870) from 1970, and the call sign was on an old label-make vinyl tape on the bottom.
Yup! (KBSX 6575). I got my license shortly before they were discontinued so I had enough advanced notice to hang on to it for nostalgia afterwards!
KANK6740. For a brief time later when CBs started to proliforate and the FCC lost control they required people to use their initials and zip code instead. Here is the law not requiring licenses. 47 CFR § 95.305 - Authorization to operate Personal Radio Services stations
KANE4109
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The zip code thing.... you reminded me. THAT is what the sign up form said to do once you submitted your application while you waited on your license to show up. I had forgotten that.
KHL 1893 Dad got it for 2 1 watt HT's
KAWU6284 Mr. B out of Inglewood, CA. operating mostly on Ch15 AM
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Those were from 1959 to 1963!
KFM8164
KAWU6284 out of "ghettoland" LA... Mr. B
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You were in the NYC area? I had locals in the Bronx that were KKD-9884 and KKD-9007!
Utahdarkhorse
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KBPU-9863
K9RPL
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KHN-5587
manticore
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KZY0753
jbm32
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Wow, where have the years gone! It's been almost 50 years since I got the call KEM8323.
I'll be turning 80 this month, and I have never forgotten it. I don't know why because no
one used their call; we all had handles. I was Vagabon.
Back then channel 15 would be going day and night, 7 days a week with at least 20 or more
people all the time. Sometimes late at night when I couldn't sleep, I would get up and go
"read the mail", on 15, until I could go back to sleep.
Thanks for the memories,
Jim
I'll be turning 80 this month, and I have never forgotten it. I don't know why because no
one used their call; we all had handles. I was Vagabon.
Back then channel 15 would be going day and night, 7 days a week with at least 20 or more
people all the time. Sometimes late at night when I couldn't sleep, I would get up and go
"read the mail", on 15, until I could go back to sleep.
Thanks for the memories,
Jim
KBA-3151
Licensed in 1975. Back in the day, CB radio was what Facebook and Twitter are now. Channel 11 was our "local" channel and you could talk to a friend or neighbor just about anytime day or night. Channels 1, 3, 6, 14, and 23 were popular in surrounding towns and many of us wandered over there occasionally to chat and make new friends. Our local taxicab company used Channel 17, and yes, you could listen to their calls and you could "radio" for a cab if the owners knew you. Local REACT group monitored Channel 9 along with a nearby city police department and some of the state troopers. A lot of small businesses used to operate CB radios instead of the more expensive two-way FM systems, but a lot of that was gone before I became active on 27 MHz. CB radio was a good thing - and lots of fun - while it lasted.
Licensed in 1975. Back in the day, CB radio was what Facebook and Twitter are now. Channel 11 was our "local" channel and you could talk to a friend or neighbor just about anytime day or night. Channels 1, 3, 6, 14, and 23 were popular in surrounding towns and many of us wandered over there occasionally to chat and make new friends. Our local taxicab company used Channel 17, and yes, you could listen to their calls and you could "radio" for a cab if the owners knew you. Local REACT group monitored Channel 9 along with a nearby city police department and some of the state troopers. A lot of small businesses used to operate CB radios instead of the more expensive two-way FM systems, but a lot of that was gone before I became active on 27 MHz. CB radio was a good thing - and lots of fun - while it lasted.
danesgs
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Don't remember my callsign but my Dad took me as he was a reporter for WGBS in Miami, Fla. to many Gemini and Apollo launches so I took the "handle" Mission Control for CB.
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