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Post by No Streak on Jan 18, 2015 13:59:16 GMT -5
Can you remember your FCC issued call sign?
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Post by No Streak on Jan 18, 2015 16:36:20 GMT -5
This is a question I have asked before on my home Ch15 and to my shock all the people that have one remembered theirs.Some guys have them since 1959 when Citizen band was started. You mite forget your wife's birthday but always remember the call sign. 10-4
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Post by spitfire441 on Jan 18, 2015 17:25:35 GMT -5
This is a question I have asked before on my home Ch15 and to my shock all the people that have one remembered theirs.Some guys have them since 1959 when Citizen band was started. You mite forget your wife's birthday but always remember the call sign. 10-4 KAFS-6662,1975 time frame. Actually Dads call as I was too young for my own. 441 Spitfire (also used since that time)
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Post by No Streak on Jan 18, 2015 17:28:32 GMT -5
Same here got into CB to late 1983 they dropped the license that year.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 18, 2015 18:37:36 GMT -5
Can you remember your FCC issued call sign? Yes and no. I had two different call signs. My first was in my mother's name because I was too young to have my own. I never used call signs on the air, but I remember it. It was KIN-4577. When that one expired 5 years later, rather than renewing it, I got my own. But for whatever reason, I can't remember that one. All I can remember was that it began with KBOU- ?. The FCC dropped the license requirement before that one expired.
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Post by tecnicoloco2000 on Jan 19, 2015 0:29:41 GMT -5
I remember mine from the Mexico FCC = SCT " 6DF-2714 " got it back in 1976
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Post by cbrown on Jan 19, 2015 9:17:52 GMT -5
The one I asked my parents to get because I was too young was KND something, I don't remember the numbers. When I got my own it was KACA-2391, or 2931.
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Post by BBB on Jan 19, 2015 10:47:53 GMT -5
KASS-7775...hence my DX number 775.
I think you had to be at least 12 years old to get one?
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 19, 2015 12:16:36 GMT -5
KASS-7775...hence my DX number 775. I think you had to be at least 12 years old to get one? You had to be 12 years old to get a class "C" (Radio control) license. Class "D" required you to be 18 years old. KASS.... K-ASS... (Chuckle!).......
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Post by Afterburner(OT-749) on Jan 19, 2015 12:35:07 GMT -5
KASS-7775...hence my DX number 775. I think you had to be at least 12 years old to get one? Guess I am going to show my age a little here ... KAL-7659. Three letter prefix was used before they started using four letter prefix. And yes, I am originally from SW Philadelphia, hence the prefix designating location. You should all be glad that I moved away as I would probably be one of the people that was talked about from the past that made it rough for everyone else. Back then I did not hesitate to run a D&A Triple Stage on the high side into a Wilson "Y-Quad" most all the time. Back then I seemed to be referred to many a time as the East Coast Gatekeeper. Got my wrist slapped once by the FCC back then when I moved over to New Jersey for a short time and talking on the radio like I did. It got me a letter from the FCC stating that I was causing interference with communications from the control tower at McGuire AFB, and I was being told to basically knock it off or face much further action. I moved to West Virginia! BTW ... still have that Triple Stage.
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Post by MonkeyMan on Jan 19, 2015 14:48:33 GMT -5
W6XRL4
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 19, 2015 15:55:35 GMT -5
Sorry, but you are NOT Herman Munster.......
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Post by MonkeyMan on Jan 19, 2015 19:33:39 GMT -5
Sorry, but you are NOT Herman Munster....... Darn! Darn! Darn! Darn! Darn!
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Post by bobcat4109 on May 30, 2018 12:40:56 GMT -5
KANE-4109 while it lasted....
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Post by BBB on Jun 20, 2018 18:13:03 GMT -5
KASS-7775...hence my DX number 775. I think you had to be at least 12 years old to get one? And yes, I am originally from SW Philadelphia, hence the prefix designating location. You should all be glad that I moved away as I would probably be one of the people that was talked about from the past that made it rough for everyone else. Back then I did not hesitate to run a D&A Triple Stage on the high side into a Wilson "Y-Quad" most all the time. Back then I seemed to be referred to many a time as the East Coast Gatekeeper. Hmmm, I wonder if this the gentleman that Knight Train speaks about fondly remembering listening to in Philly when he was younger. Something just clicked. Cool.
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Post by BBB on Jun 21, 2018 10:59:39 GMT -5
Sorry, as Sandbagger mentioned OTA, it was Captain Coleslaw in Philly I was recalling.
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Post by SIX-SHOOTER on Jun 22, 2018 10:44:30 GMT -5
My CB call sign was KBUH-0261 of course.All of the FCC Records of these call signs were destroyed many years ago in a fire so there are no longer any Official Records for any of them from the government.
SIX-SHOOTER
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Post by ytradio on Jun 22, 2018 19:34:17 GMT -5
I had not heard about the fire, all I had heard was that they had decided not to keep the records since the licensing was dropped.
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Post by kadm1354 on Jul 30, 2018 7:51:20 GMT -5
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Post by SIX-SHOOTER on Jul 30, 2018 20:51:33 GMT -5
I had not heard about the fire, all I had heard was that they had decided not to keep the records since the licensing was dropped. Had a friend that worked for them & he said the fire was a fact. SIX-SHOOTER
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Post by bluemax on Aug 1, 2018 14:06:44 GMT -5
KXU4524, hence "Radio 524 Southeastern Pennsylvania on the frequency". 1973. I had more up on top, less around the middle, and money in my pocket. Them were days. And my original Robyn SX101 that came home to me was in my first car, license 15H403. Don't ask the VIN!
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Post by scratcherky on Sept 21, 2018 10:35:14 GMT -5
KEO 4553 assigned to me around 1968 about 50 years ago. First radio was Heathkit crystal control with as I recall 7 crystal slots. Next radio was a Lafayette Comstat 25B, one of the best radios I ever had, but my current Cobra 142GTL is pretty good.
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Post by Sandbagger on Sept 21, 2018 15:35:29 GMT -5
KEO 4553 assigned to me around 1968 about 50 years ago. First radio was Heathkit crystal control with as I recall 7 crystal slots. Next radio was a Lafayette Comstat 25B, one of the best radios I ever had, but my current Cobra 142GTL is pretty good.
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I like the looks of the Comstat 25B. A little more updated from what my Comstat 25 looks like. But you really can't beat the old tube rigs. They were a pleasure to listen to and talk on.
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Post by roys29 on Nov 8, 2018 21:10:00 GMT -5
New to the forum. KDS-7550, I wasn't 18 yet so my dad got it in his name, probably in 1971.
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Post by aardvark on Nov 11, 2018 14:49:27 GMT -5
yes mine was KHE8681
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Post by ezlinux on Nov 22, 2018 8:59:50 GMT -5
Can you remember your FCC issued call sign? Yes, my old one was KHC3072 and I use to have one through my Dad before I was old enough to get one but I can't remember what the old one was which was registered around 1960. I started out with a new Lafayette HE-15B and in 1962 had a friend who was a TV technician install the radio in my 1962 Chevy plus a 102" stainless steel whip! Hard to beat a 102" whip running mobile. A fella in a big city mobile 65 miles away heard me talking to a local CBer. I heard about it when he got into town. I was in High School then and I loaned the radio to a friend so we could communicate after I replaced it with a new International 50D. CB radio was a lot of fun back then since there were a lot of people on it! The Lafayette radio looked like this but I could be wrong on the model number? HE-15B
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Post by Sandbagger on Nov 22, 2018 10:37:50 GMT -5
Can you remember your FCC issued call sign? Yes, my old one was KHC3072 and I use to have one through my Dad before I was old enough to get one but I can't remember what the old one was which was registered around 1960. I started out with a new Lafayette HE-15B and in 1962 had a friend who was a TV technician install the radio in my 1962 Chevy plus a 102" stainless steel whip! Hard to beat a 102" whip running mobile. A fella in a big city mobile 65 miles away heard me talking to a local CBer. I heard about it when he got into town. I was in High School then and I loaned the radio to a friend so we could communicate after I replaced it with a new International 50D. CB radio was a lot of fun back then since there were a lot of people on it! The Lafayette radio looked like this but I could be wrong on the model number? HE-15BDriving around with a radio that had its transmit switch on the front panel, rather than the microphone, could not have been comfortable or safe. That HE-15 reminds me a lot of the Heathkit lunchbox. Not the greatest receiver, but it talked pretty well.....
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Post by gator7 on Feb 7, 2019 16:51:13 GMT -5
My Dad got his in 59 or 60, KKA8191. Mine I got a few years later, KBV7885. Really enjoyed CB back then, except when the skip was running.
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Post by spiderleggs on Mar 3, 2019 16:42:53 GMT -5
karm-1884
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Post by whiskeycharlie242 on Mar 10, 2019 13:04:32 GMT -5
Not sure why I bothered getting a call sign since no one used them and no one wanted anyone else to know their call sign for fear of being identified publicly or outed to Uncle Charlie. Since many of us were somewhat obnoxious youths back then, we didn't want others to know our real names or addresses unless they were friends or people we trusted. Of course, the reality was something different. The FCC had very thin resources even then and were more or less only reactive in their CB enforcement. If you were stupid enough to interfere with someone or something important, then you might get a letter or perhaps a visit. Teenagers with smart mouths and loud mics may have been a nuisance to some people but didn't register a blip on the Chicken Man's radar screen. The bigger threat was pissing off some adult who'd had too much to drink and decided to come looking for you. Ahhh, the good old days! I remember having my call sign printed on a pin-on badge along with my handle. I had it made at the Gilbertsville coffee break and put it on right there, so that may have been the only time my call sign was ever used for anything. I don't think I ever wore the badge or used my call sign again, but oddly enough, I still remember it. The Shadow KIZ-3841 Norristown, PA
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