What was your first CB radio?

[fmalloy]

Oh man - Realistic-TRC-152 and you just brought tears to my eyes.

Picture it - a teenager, hooked on CB, with a back-of-the-set whip antenna in my bedroom (because my mom wouldn't let me install a proper base antenna), where everyone I talked to laughed about how "down in the grass" I always was, but I was the "Nightrider" and it was a big part of my teen years.

Thanks for taking me back.

 

[skyliner]

Still have it. A Hy-Range IV by Hy-Gain, with a Turner Plus-Three mic.

 

[TheSpaceMann]

Oh man - Realistic-TRC-152 and you just brought tears to my eyes.

Picture it - a teenager, hooked on CB, with a back-of-the-set whip antenna in my bedroom (because my mom wouldn't let me install a proper base antenna), where everyone I talked to laughed about how "down in the grass" I always was, but I was the "Nightrider" and it was a big part of my teen years.

Thanks for taking me back.

Don't complain! When I got my new Comsat 25 from Lafayette Radio I had no antenna, so I just threw a wire out the window! I was still able to hit quite a few of the locals in my neighborhood, since there were so many CB operators within a 10 block radius of my 10-20!

 

[Dude111]

Oh man - Realistic-TRC-152 and you just brought tears to my eyes.

My first was also a Realistic.... TRC 4 something I think. I DONT REMEMBER THE MODEL NUMBA!!!

It was 40 channels AM only.......

It was BLACK and a MOBILE unit I used in the house.... (analogue meter)

ANYONE HAVE PICS OF ALL MOBILE REALISTIC TRC UNITS? (Maybe I can find it)


DANKE!!

 

[ratboy]

My first CB was a LLoyd's 3 Channel walkie talkie that actually worked very well, a lot better than the Heathkit "Lunchbox" junker I bought later on. My dad got me a Johnson Messenger 124 through his store, and I had a bunch of different mikes on it, with the best sounding one being a Turner Sidekick. I bought a 300 watt linear in 1972, and would stay home from school to talk skip. I got out of CB for a while, and then bought a Pace 8010 mobile from Olson Electronics in Las Vegas. It didn't last very long in my truck due to the heat, and I added a base unit, a Pierce Simpson, can't remember what model, but it was a 40 channel AM one. It got hit by a direct lightning strike soon after I bought it, and got out of CB for about 3 years, then bought a Uniden Washington, which proved almost useless at my present location due to the huge amount of trucks running big power on nearby highway.

 

[regent23]

Mine was a realistic navaho trc-30a 23 channel base, within a year i had several other radios also. When i was a kid radio shack was a magical place and took a lot of my dads hard earned cash.

 

[booksbenji]

Dude 111, Got this from google: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=+ALL+MOBILE+REALISTIC+TRC+UNITS

 

[mike_gain]

23 ch Cobra 29. Not counting the "Archer Base Station" from Ratshak that transmitted on ch 14 but received all 23 even the uppers. Hey fmalloy, I to was the Nightrider KOK8465 my dads call. Got the name from a Charley Danial's album.

 

[budevans]

My first CB was a LLoyd's 3 Channel walkie talkie that actually worked very well, a lot better than the Heathkit "Lunchbox" junker .

ratboy,

Does this look familiar?

 

[K180]

my first cb was

it was a TRC 30-A A 23 CHANNEL CB RADIO

 

[Dude111]

Dude 111, Got this from google: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=+ALL+MOBILE+REALISTIC+TRC+UNITS

Muchos Gracious!!

I found one that looks CLOSE to what mine was!

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/222/c/1/realistic_trc_473_cb_radio_by_profingerboarder-d5ajlil.jpg

But you see the "9" in this DOESNT HAVE ITS BOTTOM PART?? -- Mine did have full #s on #6,7 and 9

 

[TheSpaceMann]

Muchos Gracious!!

I found one that looks CLOSE to what mine was!

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/222/c/1/realistic_trc_473_cb_radio_by_profingerboarder-d5ajlil.jpg

But you see the "9" in this DOESNT HAVE ITS BOTTOM PART?? -- Mine did have full #s on #6,7 and 9

Could you have had the Realistic TRC 427?

 

[N2ICV]

Realistic trc-421

 

[AC9BX]

Sears 23
Simple, 3 knobs, no features, still works, and still the best sounding CB radioi you ever heard.

 

[Dude111]

Ya could have been either of those I reckon....

Gracious you guys!!


I believe it was this : www.cbmuseum.nl/images/realistic_trc422A.JPG (422a)

IT GOT HOT AS ANYTHING ON THE BACK!!!!!!!!!! -- Man oh man!!


EDIT:

Heres a video

www.youtube.com/v/fWhJgTYs2m8

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

CB License Circa 1966

Has anyone got a clean copy of a CB License issued around mid 1960s or so that they could carefully scan and send to me? I want to photoshop a replica of my KBL-3423 license.

 

[safetypro79]

Lafayette HE-20C

In 1965 my Mom and Dad traded a little used Sears consol AM/FM record player stereo from our basement bar for it from a TV shop in Chester, PA the owner most likely got the " better" deal back then

8 channel, tunable rx, pretty basic rig, A few months later doing my PT job I was able to get a Polycomm 23 ch rig quite the nice one back then.


KMG-2796

in those days everybody used callsigns, pretty proper QSL cards Radio Shack, Lafayette stores were a big treat to go to. CB "Jamborees" were big events

 

[RCR619]

My first radio was a side mic Cobra 148 GTL my father bought some time in the 80's and then gave me when I was in elementary school in the early 90's.

I still have it, use it whenever I get a chance to drive my 67 Ford F100, and love it!

It always brings back memories of riding around all the summers off from school in my fathers old Mack superliner driving all over North America.

 

[KANE4109]

A JC Penney Pinto 23 Channel for Christmas 1976 along with a generic trunk lip mount antenna.

 

[fasteddy64]

Eico 772