Remember your CB radio call sign?

[radioman2008]

someone should create a website where people can voluntarily input their old callsigns with whatever info they want to associate with it. the website could be a searchable repository for any old license, such as ham and marine too.

 

[W8HDU]

someone should create a website where people can voluntarily input their old callsigns with whatever info they want to associate with it. the website could be a searchable repository for any old license, such as ham and marine too.

GMRS, Business, etc... I guess it could be confirmed (except CB) by F.C.C.'s ULS.

By the way, how many of you remember when one of the old radio mags, (Perhaps Wayne Green's publication), had the WPE call signs. That's another I wish I could have saved or recalled!!

 

[Listener1440]

I don’t remember mine from memory but I have the original copy from the FCC. Back in the day, most people used their “handle.

 

[LiveToRideBobsHD]

GMRS, Business, etc... I guess it could be confirmed (except CB) by F.C.C.'s ULS.

By the way, how many of you remember when one of the old radio mags, (Perhaps Wayne Green's publication), had the WPE call signs. That's another I wish I could have saved or recalled!!

That is sad that they did that . Did you go to the HAM FEST in Perrysburg, Ohio today 03/17/2024 it was a good one?

 

[W8HDU]

That is sad that they did that . Did you go to the HAM FEST in Perrysburg, Ohio today 03/17/2024 it was a good one?

RATS!! Forgot all about it. I got a memory as long as a 1.2 GHz rubber duck.

 

[Brales60]

I don’t remember mine from memory but I have the original copy from the FCC. Back in the day, most people used their “handle.

Same, I went by Crankshaft, later by 126. I drove a truck for 22 years.

 

[kb1fua]

Same, I went by Crankshaft, later by 126. I drove a truck for 22 years.

Mine was Wildhair...

 

[chief21]

My last FCC CB callsign (early 70's... before CB became unlicensed) was KKG-1832. I had an earlier license (mid-60's), where the alpha characters were KCD, but I don't remember the numerics.

 

[edclarkiv]

KACC-3822

 

[W8WCA]

KBY1969 I got it in 1969 too!

 

[edclarkiv]

KACC-3822

1974-75 I think. One of the first 4 letter prefix calls.

 

[TheSpaceMann]

The F.C.C. didn't see a need to keep a historical record of Citizens Band, because they saw it as an unlicensed service, therefore the old licenses were unlicensed as well. I didn't agree, as I think all historical records should be archived. The history student side of me says when you erase history, you erase knowledge.

They also mentioned there was a computer issue that caused a lot of data to be corrupted. And although they retrieved the broadcast, microwave, and LMR records, no effort was placed on the CB database.

Best I could do for my personal historical perspective was to create a copy, minus Ben F, Waple's stamp.

There are old CB call books online from the 1960s.

 

[TheSpaceMann]

Has anyone ever been able to look up an old CB lic? I do know what mine was . It was KJV9378 Boy that has been years ago.

There are old CB call books online from the '60s.

 

[Woodman75]

KKI-2845

 

[44Dan]

Just curious how many of you old timers on here still remember your CB radio call sign from the '60s and '70s?

KYQ9014 1969 .....

 

[W8HDU]

There are old CB call books online from the 1960s.

And where might they be at?

 

[GreenIron]

It was late 1973 or early 1974.

Call sign: KGU1735. I think I $20 was the cost for the license.
First radio: Johnson 23.
First antenna: 102" steel whip.

 

[Latrdc]

Just curious how many of you old timers on here still remember your CB radio call sign from the '60s and '70s?

I came across this thread while googling, and decided to create an account because amazingly, I remember my call letters from the mid 70s!

KBP36388. I’m fairly sure that this is the right call sign. 😮. Too bad we can’t look these up anymore. At least I don’t think we can? My handle was LadyJane, but I think I’m not the only one with that handle.

 

[44Dan]

Just curious how many of you old timers on here still remember your CB radio call sign from the '60s and '70s?

July 1969 ~ KYQ9013 ~ 44 Dan and I still go by that handle today (todays radio Ham-KK7RBE, GMRS-WSCW671, CB-KYQ9013) ...... sometimes I amaze myself ~ from somebody that CRS ...... Y'all Have A Good One ........

 

[W8HDU]

Too bad we can’t look these up anymore. At least I don’t think we can?

I do a lot of work with the F.C.C. and I tried chasing down what ever happened to the database. I, too, would have loved to have seen my first call sign. What a staffer told me that sometime in the late 70s or early 80s there was a computer crash, and since it happened after the F.C.C. ruled there would be no licenses, they didn't bother with recovery. So... the database and all records of CB users is gone.

Interestingly, there is a thread on another board about the old Popular Electronics SWL callsigns. At one time the magazine, for a small fee, issued a Shortwave listener's call sign which was very popular at the time. The call signs mirrored ham call signs except they all started with WPE and then the zone. (ie: WPE8___.) I can't recall the circumstances, but the program disappeared, but the file cards with names, addresses, and callsigns were in existence for a while. Someone in the SWL community tried to get the cards to scan them to a database for history, but the magazine said they didn't want that information published, and burned all the cards. So sadly, that part of history is gone.

I checked American Radio History's web site and there are no copies of the magazine which may have had lists.

There is a lesson for all of us. If we have a license or document, save it, because things change and there is no guarantee that you can ever recover it.

EDIT: Just a thought, speaking of CRS ... was not there a magazine that published the new CB licenses? I seem to recall something in the late 60s or early 70s? Anyone recall the name?