Breaker, Breaker 19 Good Buddy OT

[Don Coatney]

Fess up. How many had a CB radio in the 70's? A friend of mine built a "Heathkit" CB in the late 50's/early 60's. In those days you had to have a lisence and use your call letters. So a conversation sounded like this. "18W2211 calling 10GB409". None of the rubber ducky good buddy jargon with a made up southern twang. This is an open poll so you can vote for as many choices as you like and all can see who voted for what. For extra credit you can reply stating what your handle was.

Yes I had a mobil CB in my car.

No I did not have a mobil CB.

I had a base station at home.

I had a base station and a mobil station.

I graduated and became a Ham Radio operator.

I still have a CB radio in use today.

[james curl]

No, I never was interested.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I never had them..friends of mine did..just not my cup of tea..my conversion van has one and I only turn it on if I want to jerk some truckers around when traffic backs up..you know..tellin the guys it DOT with portable scale and all...

[Young Ed]

Don I wasnt around until 79 so I dont fit your time frame but I did play with cb's a little in high school. I think my handle was spudman

[PatS....]

We use them at work for communicating in the yard and pit. I have one in the pick-up. Once away from work, there is zero traffic on it and sometimes if by chance someone uses it it will startle the crap out of me:eek:

Can't imagine using it the way they did in the 70's, although if you go to the highway channels it's still very popular...but the English language is rarely used, you have to know Punjabi.

If I didn't need it for work it would be gone.

[oldmopar]

Never had one friends did they were ok in the very early 70's but once they became a fad too many fools who did not know when to shut up so I spent my money on a new cassette player to replace my 8 track

Ed

[Normspeed]

We used them in our boats in the 70s and 80s. Once you got offshore a few miles the airwaves were clear and you could keep in touch with your fishing buddies. Didn't need to be as formal as with the marine vhf sets, which we also had.

[Norm's Coupe]

I had a base station and also one in each car. I got into them when the speed limit dropped to 55 MPH on the interstates back in the 70's, so I could get where I was going faster without Johnny Law nailing me for speeding. Did a lot of traveling between offices in various cities/states back then. Didn't want to poke along at 55 MPH.

Also had a booster on the CB's to get out further. I could actually talk to people in Florida, etc. from here in Wisconsin on the base station when I kicked in the booster. Also had a powerful antenna on the base station. My older brother also had the same setup on his base station in Kentucky, so we could talk to one another over the CB. Of course when doing so we didn't use our call letters/numbers.

They were also helpful to keep track of the kids when they started to drive in the early 80's. Put one in each of their cars in case they ran into trouble and to help keep track of them.

I haven't had one in my car since the late 80's now. Didn't see a great need for it after they raised the speed limits back up. Was just a bunch of noise then. Took down the base antenna in the early 90's and sold all the equipment except for one small mobile CB and antenna in a cabinet in the basement. Don't know why I kept that one.

Call letters were KABI 3108 (rarely used them though), and the handle used was "Travelin Man".

Guess people still use them. I see them on collector cars sometime around here too.

[Dennis Hemingway]

Before cell phones we had CB radios in all of our cars and a base station. I would call as I left work to see if we needed anything from town, as we live 6 miles from the nearest store. We still use the handheld walky talkys as we caravan to car shows, each member of our car club has one.

My handle is Capt'n Crunch and Kathy's is First Mate.

Dennis:cool:

[dirty dan]

I didn't have one back in the '70's.

I have one now in my 2004 Dodge pickup (my dd). I mainly use it only when avoiding police radar on long trips or if there's a traffic jam on I-010 or I-12 to see if it's a wreck or something I can avoid.

[Normspeed]

My handle in the boat was Smoker King. Also the name of the boat. Some people might have suspected I was smuggling square grouper, but a smoker king is a large king mackerel, maybe 10-15 lbs, when you hooked up they had a reputation for making those deep sea reels smoke.

[Norm's Coupe]

We use them at work for communicating in the yard and pit. I have one in the pick-up. Once away from work, there is zero traffic on it and sometimes if by chance someone uses it it will startle the crap out of me:eek:

Can't imagine using it the way they did in the 70's, although if you go to the highway channels it's still very popular...but the English language is rarely used, you have to know Punjabi.

If I didn't need it for work it would be gone.

Pat,

I never once used the term "Good Buddy", or know anyone who did except in the movies. However, I use to know the language/terms used on it. If you want to learn what all the Punjabi means, there is a dictionary of terms and numbers used. It's sort of like text messaging today. If someone used text language with me, I just tell them if they want me to understand what they are saying to "Speak English". No, I don't text anyone on the cell phone. If someone sends me a text message, they won't get an answer either.

One of our friends complained a few weeks ago about not having our cell phone voice mail activated. My reply was, and always will be. My cell phone is turned off unless I'm talking to someone on it (very rare). If you want to call and leave a message do it on the office or home phone number. Don't want to have to check a dozen places for messages. I have only used about 3 or 4 minutes on my cell phone since I got it back in February in two calls. Once was just to test it out. The other time was when I met the guy to pick up the Ford Ranger wheels I just bought for the coupe.

[Mr. Belvedere]

My brother and I were little boys back in the 70's, but my dad had one in his 77 T-bird. He let us talk on it quite a bit, but being the prebubescent little srubs that we were, all the truckers thought we were a couple chicks and would try to pick-up on us.

[Captain Neon]

I was just a kid in the '70s, but before the ready availability of FRS and GMRS two-way radios my dad and I often used them in the '90s in car caravans to help keep the group together. My handle was MoPar Boy. I was usually the lone MoPar in a group of Fords and Chevies.

[Ed Griffin]

My buddies dad got me interested in them years ago. He built the Heathkit radios, scanners, all of it. Used to cruise with him in his 57 Belair while he would chase down a scene he picked up off the police scanner.

1970 or 71 I picked up a base station and used it all the time just to chat. Needed a license then, KBJX5744, WindJammer. Talked and met some really good people back then before all the "good buddy" stuff got on air.

I've used the mobiles off and on for years especially when I had to travel for work. Still have a 40 channel mobile, 23 channel base and a omni directional antenna. Couldnt get the morse code down so never got a Ham.

[norrism1]

I'm studying for my Ham!

[RobertKB]

No CB but I did have an eight track.

[Johnny S]

Yep...had them in two cars at least. Still have one in the garage .... not hooked up at the moment. I went on to become an Extra Class Amateur Radio operator as well - Ham Radio Call of - KE0UE (Kilo Echo Zero Uniform Echo) .... now that's more fun! There's a new solar cycle gearing up so the Ham frequencies will start talkin' big time again soon.....!!

[JohnS48plm]

I have one that I use on trips in the 48 coupe. I clamp it under the dash and plug it into the cigarette lighter which is 12volts coming from the inverter. The antenna hooks on to the rear window. When the truckers spot the antenna they call me to ask questions about the car or tell me about the one they had like it . JohnS

[PatS....]

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I never once used the term "Good Buddy", or know anyone who did except in the movies. However, I use to know the language/terms used on it. If you want to learn what all the Punjabi means, there is a dictionary of terms and numbers used. It's sort of like text messaging today. If someone used text language with me, I just tell them if they want me to understand what they are saying to "Speak English". No, I don't text anyone on the cell phone. If someone sends me a text message, they won't get an answer either.

One of our friends complained a few weeks ago about not having our cell phone voice mail activated. My reply was, and always will be. My cell phone is turned off unless I'm talking to someone on it (very rare). If you want to call and leave a message do it on the office or home phone number. Don't want to have to check a dozen places for messages. I have only used about 3 or 4 minutes on my cell phone since I got it back in February in two calls. Once was just to test it out. The other time was when I met the guy to pick up the Ford Ranger wheels I just bought for the coupe.[/quote']

HaHaHa, Norm...no, I mean Punjabi the language. Most of the highway truckers passing through here are from Pakistan and they speak Punjabi on the CB non-stop like old ladies at tea!!!!

Channel 19 is useless for English speaking minorities like me, so we monitor 25.

I only use the CB in the yard and sometimes if I forget to turn it off on the way home I'll listen in.

[BobT-47P15]

The last time I had a CB radio in a car on a trip, the truckers were using

pretty bad language on channel 19.

I still have one or two CBs in a box in the shed. And at least one magnet

mount antenna plus a trunk edge mount. Left over from the 1970s.

Back when...I had a CB in a 47 P15 coupe. Made a wooden item to hold

the radio on the floor hump....had a 12 volt battery in the trunk for power....

and a pair of those twin Hustler brand short antennas mounted on the

gutters above the doors. Had them slanted back---looked pretty cool.

Have thought about fixing a similar deal in the convert,

using the magnetic antenna, but haven't gotten

a round tuit. And likely won't. My handle in the 70s was "The

Joker".

[Norm's Coupe]

BobT,

Too many antenna's sticking up there. Dead give away if your trying to avoid the cops spotting who's giving away their location. In the car I used a booster for the standard FM radio antenna that went under the dash. With that and a strong mic on the CB you could hold the mic in your hand in your lap and talk. That way no one outside the car knew you were even using the CB, or even had one in the car. You do need a meter to trim the antenna with though. Still have the booster but think I got rid of the meter to trim it with.

[blueskies]

We had them in the cars and a base station at our cabin when I was growing up. At the time, there was no phone service in the valley where the cabin was, and the CBs where the only form of communication. It was a lot of fun, listening in to all of the scuttlebut... I still have a CB in my little RV, and a handheld that I take with me in the Plymouth. Mostly use them to find out what is happing in a traffic jam or use the weather channel on the handheld to keep tabs on the weather. What I don't like about them is the trash talk that seems to permeate the airwaves. Gets old quickly. Pete