CB + Ham radios, police scanners, shortwave radios

[EricHill78]

Anyone ever used to have fun with them? When I was a kid I had so much fun with each will except for ham never got my license.

Police scanners - used to love listening to the local cops/ems getting to calls etc. I actually used to listen to chordless phones and cells as well. I was a terrible kid lol.

CB - Too young to have a car so I had a base station. My first was a cobra then a galaxy. Staying up late at night talkin to local goofy people, mostly weren't truckers believe it or not. Oh and skip!!! I can't forget skip. If you don't know what that is it's wear the conditions are perfect and you can talk to folks across the country on upper and lower side band..

Shortwave - Oh my crowning jewel my grundig satellite 500 my father baught me for Christmas. Before the internet hit it was so cool to hear radio shows broadcasted from around the world. The BBC, VOA (voice of America) for example. I used to love listening to a station from Quito, Ecuador. I think it was on 9745.

It was alot of fun back when I was younger. The Internet has taken away alot of the alure of my old radio hobby's I sure do miss them.

[c.nash]

All that shit you can listen to on the Internet now. Lol

I dis have a CB for awhile but we actually used it. Lol

[snusgetter]

I remember having a CB in my truck way back when.

It was interesting, to say the least.

Until I tried breaking into a local channel for an emergency
while on a lonely, dark back road and these idiots chatting
about their doggies and pussies wouldn't let me through.

Got rid of the damn thing the very next day!! Didn't need
a CB Radio to talk about my pet vices!!



This is what I had. ^

[EricHill78]

All that shit you can listen to on the Internet now. Lol

I dis have a CB for awhile but we actually used it. Lol

It's not the same listening over the Internet! Havin a good radio and all just adds to it.

[EricHill78]

Snusgetter that cobra was one of the best mobiles if I remember correctly. Sucks they wouldn't help ya.. There were allways goofballs on there.

[snusgetter]

Snusgetter that cobra was one of the best mobiles if I remember correctly. Sucks they wouldn't help ya.. There were allways goofballs on there.

It's certainly good to know that the interwebs have done away with that kinda crap!!

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

CBs were always a lot of fun on roadtrips. Plus the truckers would always tell you where the smokeys were

[snusgetter]

Looks like we got us a convoy!!

~
Breaker 1-9 this here's the Rubber Duck...

Gimme a 10-9 Big Ben.

10-4 Rubber Dickie!!

Let them truckers roll...

We gone ba-bye!!

[ChaoticGemini]

There are still some stations that can only be found via shortwave, but a lot of the big broadcasters have started dropping their broadcast signals in favor of the internet. I still tote my portable Sony shortwave radio around because I end up in a lot of places without internet and broadcast radio. I could actually use a new radio since it is looking worse for wear and it's attached antenna is broke from a slide down the side of a cliff. Unfortunately, even Sony changed how they were making this one, so I have yet to find a worthwhile replacement.

When I was growing up, my entire family had CB's. I just never really got into them. My uncle still uses his at home and in his car. Last time I saw him, his car had 5 different antennas sticking out of it for various things; looked funny.

[EricHill78]

That makes me sad.. One thing Which was great was to hear a station I couldn't hear that night before on shortwave because the conditions were just right. I was a goofy kid but it was so much fun to me. Something I wanted to share with my son.

With the Internet there's no mystery and no hunt. Just click click there's the station.

+1 for knowing what shortwave is and still having one!

yeah the CB's were the Internet of its time. Having diff antennas he's prob a ham operator as well.

[bipolarbear1968]

I had a base CB unit in my bedroom as a kid in the early 80's. I went by Hand Grenade as a handle.

[EricHill78]

My handle was Madball lol.. I had a bad ass base station with echo and all that, it was alot of fun.

[Randall]

I've used CB's as a driver. The shortwave always intrigued me, but I never actually used/or bought one. Big fan of radio in general.

[PipenSnus]

My dad was into CB's when I was a kid back in the early '60's, long before they enjoyed their fad status. I don't remember what his handle was, but I can recite his official call sign without even thinking about it. Funny what kind of useless trivia sticks in one's mind over the years.

[Darwin]

There likely would have never been a CB fad if not for the misbegotten 55 mph national speed limit imposed in 1974. Americans, bless 'em, simply find ways around stupid onerous whims of the political class and the use of CBs for the purposes of evading the mobile tax collectors was a great example of this.