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Remember your CB radio call sign?

n3ouc

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CB Call Sign

KDY-1081 Hercules!

Had a PolyComm Tube Rig..Put out like 3-4 watts at best but used it for years until I became a HAM..

Mike
 

hhrj

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Can't remember the letters but the numbers were 1661. The year, 1976, right at the end of the requirement.
 

hhrj

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Update!

Can't remember the letters but the numbers were 1661. The year, 1976, right at the end of the requirement.

I remember now the full call sign: KZI-1661. Don't remember what I had for lunch this afternoon but after 39 years I came up with my call sign, go figure...
 
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TheSpaceMann

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Is there a repository database somewhere with that information in it? I've checked the FCC database, no joy there.
I believe that some of the old CB magazines had listings of the then new call signs and their owners at the time they first came out.
 

comphouse

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My CB Radio Call Sign

KQG-1801 The Pennsylvania Prospector. Trevose, PA

Started in 1964 with a Lafayette rig. I think it had space for 5 crystals. I remember swapping out crystals for different channels.
 

GSPD

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Remember it like yesterday....KBK-1461 issued early '60's to my father for me. Came across the original license a couple years ago while cleaning up the estate still in the frame. My first radio was a big old Pearce Simpson tube radio that was picked up used and was junk. What did I know when I was 13.....heck, it had a mic, that's all I needed! The first of many CB's for me.
 

SCPD

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Back in the day

License was KFR1529.
Call was Trashcan.
First radio was a Realistic mobile. No clue the model.
First car it was in was a 66 Lemans.
 

RadioRon

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Call sign was KCL5826 circa 1969. Both the base and mobile were Heathkits that my dad put together.
 
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