CB radio nostalgia

[Turbo-T]

While surfing the net today I cam across a few websites that deal with CB radio nostalgia.

This website has all sorts of cool pictures of old CB radios from the 70's onwards, maybe even a few 60's models in there too, not sure:

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And if you have an older model Cobra radio, this site has some dates on when some of the radios were avaliable:

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[the_junkie]

While surfing the net today I cam across a few websites that deal with CB radio nostalgia.

This website has all sorts of cool pictures of old CB radios from the 70's onwards, maybe even a few 60's models in there too, not sure:

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And if you have an older model Cobra radio, this site has some dates on when some of the radios were avaliable:

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I'm diggin the first site

[Turbo-T]

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[Turbo-T]

The first class D CB radios....circa 1958/1959....

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You think Beaver Cleaver ever used one of these?

[linx]

Pretty cool there Turbo T.

I like the "Class D Transceiver Kit".

Lookin back at those prices man, that was a fortune for a radio.

[Mr B]

The good old days ... when you could actually buy a radio kit from Radio Shack and the people working there knew a resistor from a diode.

Remember all the military surplus electronics?

Ahhhh .... The Good Old Days.

[treetall]

yeah i was looking at the prices too linx. i mean 150 dollars for though radios. man thats a lot. i paid 150 for my connex 3300hp. that must have been a fortune back then. im back quiet

[721HACKSAW]

I still have my first CB radio, it is a Knight kit 6 channel crystal radio that was assembled in the late 60's. My father bought it from someone he worked with in 1973. The workmanship is superb in my opinion, the power transformer is bad but it is a real sweet piece of radio history.

[Turbo-T]

I still have my first CB radio, it is a Knight kit 6 channel crystal radio that was assembled in the late 60's. My father bought it from someone he worked with in 1973. The workmanship is superb in my opinion, the power transformer is bad but it is a real sweet piece of radio history.

On those radios did you just "pick" the channels you were going to be on instead of having all 23?

[Grump]

yeah you either bought all the crystals and changed them to what channels you want or you just bought the ones you wanted and put those in

[Turbo-T]

Was it cheaper to own a "pick your channel" radio as opposed to getting all 23 channels ready to roll?

[sundance]

My uncle ran one of those Teaberry T-BEAR's in his coal truck..Godd memories

[Turbo-T]

Here's another site I found with some old CB pics...

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[nighttrain]

I still have a Robyn SX-101. I wonder if it still works?

[Turbo-T]

Another one I found....in Spanish.....but it does show some old radios with dates:

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[shakuna]

ah cb radio heaven lol. a vintage radio's collection dream. i just like how they used to look and run lol. so many memories indeed. many thx for posting the links.

[Lightninrod]

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Oh how I wish I had never gotten rid of my CPI 2000! Way ahead of its time!

[Farmer John]

To bad that first site only has pictures of some of these radios. I wish I could find out more about the Realistic TRC-449 I am running. Just the same that first site was nice.

[hightower357]

pretty cool sites there t.

[Bugs_and_Gas]

To bad that first site only has pictures of some of these radios. I wish I could find out more about the Realistic TRC-449 I am running. Just the same that first site was nice.

Try this one out

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[721HACKSAW]

I was cleaning my radio area up and got out 2 old pieces I have. The first is a Maco 300 amp that my grandfather ran in his semi in the early '70s, he had a guy in Monteagle, Tn. that did his radio work. The second is a 6 channel kit radio my father got for me when I became interested as a pre-teen, it DKed 1 watt and swung to 4!
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[polecat]

I still have my cpi 2000 with frequency counter but my brownings and trams still smoke anything out there today

[OneEyedJack]

thanks for the memories!!