CB Radios Through Your Career

Pair of brown and golden eagles Moonraker 4 stacked D104 and a good foot warmer

 

Bowman, Cobra GTL, Galaxy Pluto, Galaxy 44(back up) and current ANYTONE AT6666.

 

My very first was a walkie talkie. I remember standing in the parking lot of the brand new home depot when I was 16 or so and talking to another driver in a big rig. Man I felt like a million bucks. Then I got a Uniden510 that I still have and was my first radio in my first truck as a truck driver. Then went to Pres McKinley.

 

First was a Radio Shack of dubious origin. Upgraded to a Cobra 19, then a 25 with matched Wilson 2000’s. That was a great setup, and I had a lot of fun with it! That thing seemed to have unlimited range sometimes! All that was a very long time ago.

These days I run a Computer Guy built 29. It’s a much better radio than this truck allows it to be.

 

had an old lafayette for long time.
Then ran a cobra 148, they’re in closet, now run old general lee.

 

Old radio shack and many others of forgotten and dubious beginnings then cobra, ranger, galaxy, striker and the list goes on and on.....

 

First one… midland 77-888
Current… General Lee
Backup…. Cobra 29 night watch 2000 build sticker still on it from the day I bought it.

 

First CB rig, when I was 15: RCA CRM-P2B-5 with a 6AQ5A "final" tube -- actually just the TX oscillator stage coupled to the antenna when the PTT switch was pressed; on RX, that same tube was the audio output stage to the speaker. Power was ~1 watt to a telescoping whip.
Then I built a Lafayette Comstat 9 from a kit. There was a slide switch on the rear to select output power. As long as it was in the 100mw position, it was legal & license-free. In order to switch it to 5 watts, the transmitter had to be signed off by someone with a (then) 2nd Class Commercial Radiotelephone License (that license is now the "General Radiotelephone Operator License" or GROL;
First solid state rig was a battery operated Claricon 15-200. Put out a massive 2 watts to a built-in telescoping antenna, or an SO-239 on the back to output to a "real" antenna.
Then a Courier TR-5 for my move from Noo Joisee to Alaska.
Nowadays my van has a Uniden PC-122XL,
At home, I mostly use a Teaberry T base station, one of the E.C.I. clones. It's full of tubes, the way God intended

 

I started with a 23 channel Midland that I got from my dad, and an old Hy-Gain that didn't work.

The company installed Uniden radios in the trucks, so that's what I'm using at the moment.

I wish my General Lee was still working. It needs a "modulation transformer," but I have no idea where to buy one and no idea who can install it correctly. I've got several radios (Galaxy, Ranger, SuperStar, Cobra) that I would like to have fixed, but I need to find a new technician because my old one has quit working on anything that he can't fix quickly.