First CB?

You old enough to remember The Early Birds on WFAA?

Or, “Hymns We Love”, with Norvell Slater on KRLD on Sunday morning?

The Saturday Big Band shows on WRR-AM? Host was also voice of Big Tex at State Fair.

If I stay on IH20, problems with traffic are from some other planet.

 

Remember all that! Remember when KLIF was downtown on the corner of Main and Commerce, KBOX, and there were no FM stations yet...KZEW first started out, it was basically commercial-free station, also Q102, The Eagle, Ron Chapman and Suzie Humphrey on KVIL.....feeling old now

 

KRLD-FM. Short lived, but predated other FM rock stations.

WRR-FM has been bowdlerized by the Enemy since 1989, but I recall it as first.

Yeah, having hair is one thing. But it ain’t blonde na more, ha!

UTube has some fun audio of live broadcasting from Dallas in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ads and all. It’ll take you back (like when the OU fans were at the Baker and UT at the Adolphus across Main for the annual Battle of the Red River at the Cotton Bowl; cops kept them all to their side of street. KLIF overlooked that scene. Arrested? Radio on in the drunk tank, and no one released till game over, ha!). Guarantee those memories will pop. Dallas by far the best city in US to have grown up in till 1980. (Hell, Texas, for that matter.)

Besides, the kiddies all follow what Daddy Waze tells them. Turn left and drive off cliff.

My first CB (as a work tool) was a Uniden 76 set straight by Robert at Clays CB back when they were next to the Bar-B truckstop IH20 X370 near Mineral Wells. And a pair of 5’ Wilson fiberglass. Set up under the infamous metal shed. Always assumed I’d get a BIG RADIO, but never got around to it as that one got compliments all the time. I was in an FLD-120 those years.

They’re down across from the Petro in San Antonio now. Ackerman Road exit off IH10. Worth the time and any $ if headed that way.

Basics are great, confirmation they work well are greater. So, get a decent little SWR meter and read up. And stop by Clays if you get that way.

CB a necessary tool for work, IMO. Familiarity with what’s out there on-air is the thing. Sort the wheat from the chaff.

 

Yeah we have one of those and last week I tuned into the station to figure out what has happened a few miles in front of me with a backup I could see starting to form, but they had a basket ball game on. This is after they blitzed the area with their "on the 8's with traffic and weather daily" in ads.

I ended up cutting some truck off to get off at the last exit and glad I did, they had a major accident ahead.

 

That's too bad. Here KRLD use to do that, but now they have a sister station for the sports broadcasts. Only time they air something other than the News, is on the weekends...but even then they still do weather and traffic reports.

 

Like yesterday. Was west on IH20 at mm480 in SE Dallas County when a rock hauler let his bed lift and start dumping basketball-sized rocks at 70-mph. The bed then hit a cross-freeway sign structure bringing it down across all four lanes as the truck rolled.

Complete shutdown. Welders, Bobcats and cranes needed past usual. No idea how long some of those poor drivers sat there. (Maybe they lynched the idiot down in the river bottoms. And then broke for an early lunch).

I came around curve about 20-seconds later. No service roads across the Trinity River Floodplain. I was on the horn the rest of the way to Fort Worth in IH20, forty miles west.

Pretty much only a driver with a decent radio was going to figure an alternate route WITHOUT all the other traffic. Which means very, very early getting to an alternate.

 

Good Karma to you. A timely radio report about such problems from a Good Samaritan can save many hours for many drivers.

 

That’s a good price, has it been peaked and tuned?

 

If not mistaking KSCS was the first FM country station in Dallas.. then there was Bill Mack WBAP all night trucking show, which could be heard all over North America.