Can you remember your first CB radio?

[fiddlehack]

RS TRC-30A, great radio...






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Oops...sorry for the distraction gang. Carry on as this is a good thread.

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[Lost Ram]

My first radio I was given was a Lafayette Telsat-1023 by my father that had it in the basement storage forEVER!!!! With this and a 102" whip I was on my way. I use to talk on this radio when it was slightly used back when I was a kid, I would get into so much trouble for using it. Anyway, it was finally mine to use as a mobile. I was so happy.

My first radio I bought was a Cobra Cam 89, loved this radio. Got from a guy that is a Silent Key now. I still have it to this day. I think he sold it to me for 5 or 10 dollars. I use to do some solder work for him as he could not as his age. I had no clue what I was soldering back then but He made a lasting impression on me. There's not may times I dont Key the Mic and not think about Frank, AKA Music Man.

[DX159]

My first CB was a 23 channel Robin XL-One for the mobile then I purchased a Robin T123-B
for the base I remember it was quite a investment for a kid still in high school washing dishes for a living back in 1972.

[silent1]

Yes I remember my first radio.
Cobra 29 still have it.

[grease rag]

My first CB was a Midland 13-861. It was a very fun little radio, as I could run it on 8 AA batteries with its portable ant or hook it up to 12 volts.

[DevilDog66]

My first CB was a Realistic TRC-482.....great radio, never should have gotten rid of it.

[Mr Peabody]

My first was a Radio Shack Navaho TRC-492 and ringo antenna think I got it for $40 in the mid 90s from a family friend

[majorxlr8n]

first rig was a Courier Cruiser mobile, used as a base with a Shakespeare Big Stick. Still use the Big Stick today

[772 alberta]

Pos rad shack am unit. Led meter sq and vol. that's it..

[Turk182]

Ok All .. lets go down memory lane ... can you remember what was your first CB radio? If not... which is the radio that sticks out in your mind. The radio that comes to my mind was it was a President radio of some sort. I remember trading it off for a Galaxy 99v.

MIDLAND 13-863B CB BASE STATION

..........purchased in Nov. '76 and still used to this day to make contacts all over N. Amer barefoot.

[army1975]

Galaxy Mirage 88 HL with a Texas Star 500 giving it a lil boost every now and again. Wilson 5000 ears.

[Drifter5]

A Uniden Pro-520xl

[Bluerunner]

I got my first CB radio around 1970. It was actually a toy GE walky talky I bought the pair of for my kids at a Goodwill store for $1. Telescopic antenna and ran on a 9 volt battery. All the toy walky talkies back then operated on CB Ch14. Pretty desperate financially back then. Two kids & no extra money for my toys.

One night I had it on and I heard voices in conversation over it. I learned a lot listening. Went to the library and got books on electronics & radio.

I made a voltmeter & field strength meter out of salvaged TV & AM radio parts, using a tuning meter salvaged from a old shortwave receiver only radio I found at the dump.

I put a 12 volt wall wart on it for power, and a long wire antenna (tuned the output with my DYI Field Strength meter).

I was very excited when I finally made contact with someone about 20 miles away. The bug bit me and I saved up to buy a broken 3 channel radio and fixed it.

Finally I was given a broken Radio Shack 23 channel for fixing a guys other radio. Fixed it and I was on the air. Whoo Hoo!

[G2527]

I had a Cobra Cb 19 Dx Lll 40 Channel Mobile. It was a fun radio with colored meter. Just a volume and squelch knob.

[tattoopastor]

i sure can still have my first radio, it was an old Johnson with switchable crystals tor transmit and receive, my dad gave to me when i was 10 told me i wanted to talk on the radio i had to get it working,
low and behold thats what got me started, 35 years later i still look at it and say how did i ever do that lol

[Pioneer621]

My first radio i bought was an old Royce 1-621 back in 2000 I think the year was. Actually I bought a Radio Shack TRC-504 from the guy when I bought the Royce base as well, but primarily used the base for a number of years. Still have it and it is under my desk, has a shorted power transistor in the PS last I recall, but wouldn't take much to get back on the air. The TRC-504 was fried several times over while experimenting, was one of the first radios I fiddled with.

[tba02]

Pace 143 was my first radio. It was mated to a starduster at the house and a kicker gutter mount on the car.

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[TrblShooter]

My first radio was Realistic TRC - 434 base station hooked to an antron 99 antenna with the ground plane..

[GS19D3]

A walk down memory lane. A Kraco CB Super Deluxe. Brand new from K-Mart in 1975. I still have it. It was hooked to an Archer 5/8 on the roof. CB was the kids party line back then. From our house on a hill I could cover all of the Santa Cruz and Monterey bay area of California. Channel 18.

[Johnny625]

A truck driver friend gave me his cobra 29 when he bought a new galaxy 959 for his rig. Cobra was peaked out with mosfet final and I had a ball with it. Been hooked ever since. I passed it on to another friend when I upgraded to keep the favor going and try to hook somebody new

[Transistor 9]

Well my very first CB band radio was my walkie talkie on channel 14, but my first true CB was a Realistic TRC 56 CB-Fone. Sorry I can't post a picture. I may, possibly, still have this rig hiding in a box somewhere. If not, it got sold in a yard sale in the last century.

[Lakotawalker]

First i ever talked on was dads old g.e superbase i think it was called, then saved up and got browning golden eagle 3 still have it hasn't been used in years last time i think was around 1984

[Bobcat]

My father in law was way into the hobby back in 1975-76 and I used to drool over his equipment. then one year for Christmas my wife got me a JC Penney Pinto 23 channel and a trunk mount antenna. I was in heaven.

[Scipio Kid]

Very, very first ... Dad came home with two very nice, big and bulky RCA Walkie Talkies in leather cases. They had 3 channels, FM radio and very long retractable antennas. He'd let my friends & me take em and play soldier or cop and we thought we were talking to airplanes when we were most likely talking to truckers. That was 1965 and we were only little squirts, 7 or 8 years old. We must have gone through a couple hundred Eveready batteries playing with those radios. By '72 or '73, I wanted a real CB and found a fellow selling them "wholesale" out of his basement. So I saved every penny I made working at Marie Callender's as a bus boy and paid $120.00 for a Teaberry Scout and a base load antenna. It had all the features; volume, squelch and 23 channels. I set it up in Dad's Delta 88 with my big sis driving (I was too young so I didn't drive until we got out of the neighborhood) and went out and heard tons of static and little else but I thought that radio was the coolest thing in the world and so did all my friends. After a few days, I called the guy who sold it and asked about all the static. He had me bring it back and talked me into another 25 bucks and traded it out for a Midland! Now I was running with the big boys! It had a power meter, delta tune and a PA jack. I ran to RS and got a PA horn and had more fun with it than talking on the radio. It was a vast improvement over the Teaberry and really worked well. I used it almost daily until the 40 channels came out, then it got shelved and lost. DANG.