what a cb dummy I am

[will4me]

Ha! I haven't been on in over 30 years. Still have a Cobra base station sitting in my man room along with a Palomar Amp. I was a young kid when I was on (a LOT) and went by "Courageous Crawfish" then just CC. As an older teen I got into SSB and trying to collect QSL cards from around the world. I was "Unit 893, from south central Louisiana, south central USA, calling CQ, CQDX!" I probably have that book with those cards in it somewhere....
Whew... flashback!

I have a Washington CB Radio 40+channels AM / SSB BASE /MOBILE and used to go by "EC" on the CB.
WOW Reading "listening to" your story brought back memories on SSB Upper/Lower CQ-CQ-CQDX lol
I have a few of the cards myself.

 

[MacTavish]

A BNIB may be in order

 

[sonofapreacherman]

A BNIB may be in order

Thats what I'm thinking, I guess after tax return a new one is in order

 

[GeauxLSU]

Mine is a Cobra 142 GTL.
I wanted an Astatic D104 mic SO bad. Bought one and it woudl just not work with that rig for some reason. I was crushed.
I wound up with a Turner Expander 500. More gizmos but just not the nostalgic cool of a D104.
Yep, got my geek on flashback going for sure!

 

[sonofapreacherman]

Oh yeah the old d104 mic best mic in my opinion

 

[sonofapreacherman]

Mine is a Cobra 142 GTL.
I wanted an Astatic D104 mic SO bad. Bought one and it woudl just not work with that rig for some reason. I was crushed.
I wound up with a Turner Expander 500. More gizmos but just not the nostalgic cool of a D104.
Yep, got my geek on flashback going for sure!

nothing wrong with that setup

 

[GeauxLSU]

nothing wrong with that setup

Amp is a Palomar 90A. Maybe if I ever move out to God's country I'll set it all up again.

 

[sonofapreacherman]

Sounds good

 

[GeauxLSU]

My first "CB" was a 3 channel Realistic walkie talkie. You had to physically change the crystals if you wanted different channels. It think it came with channel 9 only. I hooked it up to an external house mounted antennae. I STILL have it as well. Perfect working order and great cosmetic shape. Wow... I keep WAY too much stuff.

 

[sonofapreacherman]

Nothing wrong with keeping toys