cb radios

Our trucks at my dad's company had CB radios and we had a "Base Station" at home. I remember a list of the "10 Codes" next to it and how my older brothers would go to their CB radio club meetings.

Yes,kiddies.Before there were yuppies permanently attached to their cell phones and driving like idiots there were suburban morons who thought they were Burt Reynolds in the movie "Convoy".

Starting about 1974 or so, it seemed like every douchebag with a car had one of these and drove around acting like a long haul trucker on bennies. I never had one, although I had several friends who did, and it was thoroughly laughable to hear some teenage suburbanite in a Chev Belair trying to sound like he was a character in Smokey and the Bandit. Kids these days are far more sophisticated and would never do something so laughable. Thats why you never see posses of suburban white kids driving around in Honda Civics with low profile tires, spinner rims and Ludacris blasting out of the speakers, the pack of them acting like they just pulled in from Compton.

A friend of mine bought a '72 Cutlas with a CB radio already in it.  He used to drive around just for the purpose of finding someone on the air to talk to while he was driving.  The novelty of that wore off in about a week and he traded  the radio in for a state of the art Jensen casette player and a graphic equalizer that was the size of a lunch box.  He blew the speakers with that after another week.

Hopefully Sukings will return to RIA. I miss his nonsense... maybe this time everything he says will be part of a cb radio revival....BREAKER BREAKER BUDDY GOOD, WE'VE GOT THE FLASH AND AQUAMAN ATTACKED GRIEVOUS AND HURTY BY THE SIDE OF THE ROADS. REPORT BACK TO JUSTICE LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS FOUR TEN FORTHWITH BUDDY GOOD.

I was a CB operator in the late 1960s before it was taken over by the general public in response to the mandatory 55 mph speed limit imposed after the first gas crunch in 1974. In those earlier days CB radio had rules and regulations and they were enforced. At one time a license was as much as $120.00 and you took a great risk if you operated a CB set without one. I knew several people who had their equipment confiscated for rules violations, the most common offense being a station running too much power. You had to give your call letters every 12 to 15 minutes (I was KLD-5006) and it stated in the rules CB was to be used for business purposes and not  "for idle chit chat,"  but that rule was not enforced unless they were going after someone who had multiple violations and were looking to revoke his license. The guardian angels of CB (I believe it still exists) was an organization called R.E.A.C.T. (Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams) whose members would monitor channel 9 ... Read more