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Remember your CB radio call sign?

CKnobb

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I remember wanting a 3x4 callsign so bad, and then when the license showed up (under my dad's name..I was only 14 or so) and it was a newer 4x4 callsign...I felt so inadequate, so rookie-like :censored:
 

Radiomatrix

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Just curious how many of you old timers on here still remember your CB radio call sign from the '60s and '70s?
Hi, this is my first post here….i was very active on the AM side and SSB in late 70s. I had a call sign registration, lovely to find ly old logs with my cb handle or ssb station identifier…..never would have thought of it again.
 

steve9570

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KCP-2441 Boston Ma 1971 also (WA1-BZG) ham no longer in use
 

KB0BUT

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I was the Blue Angel, KWH1561 when I got into CB in 1964, got my 2nd Class FCC ticket in 1972 while in the Air Force, ham license, KB0BUT in 1987, and GMRS license, WRWS569 this year. I got the GMRS one so I could help a fellow ham work on a GMRS repeater setup when I found that my ham license wasn't allowed.
 

steve9570

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KCP-2441 Boston MA Mid 1970s got my first tube rig in the 60s a Heath Kit 6 ch CB.
 

trentbob

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Nice to hear your stories, I got my CB call sign in late 1965 but my dad had to apply for it, KOG-0554, I was 12 years old LOL. Heavily into swl then as my dad was a ham.

My first radio was a used Lafayette he- 90 LOL. Enjoy the stories.
 

ki7be

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KZX-6796 in the mid 70*s near Auburn NY. It was in my dad*s name I was 16 at the time. I had a 23 channel Midland mobile that he bought at the local hardware store. I had a Stardust antenna on the chimney.
 

pspc389

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king whiskey George 8491
Dad was Half Track, I was Brillo
1st radio for a graduation present the famed TRC 30a,
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then I bought a Midland Model 13-830 Cb Radio 23 Ch 1692859746847.png
and a 40" telescoping antenna on the trunk lid of my 68 ford fairlane
 
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