How do you get a CB "handle"? And CB slang questions

I would post mine but I dont want it stolen

 

Yeah, I bet it's a good 'un. Maybe you could copyright it to keep the thieves away, and then charge a usage fee. Or only use it encrypted.

 

As big as this country is Im sure somebody has used it somewhere, but Ive never heard it broadcast, and in fact I don't broadcast it very much.

 

Ghost rider. Heard it plenty of times.

 

Is that your handle, Timin770? If so, how did the Texan find out?

 

Nahh he's just horsing around, but actually Tim in 770 is a nic that harkens back to phone phreaking days when hobbyists would build tone generators to mimic Telephone Company tones in order to make free calls. Guys would often use their first name and then the area code they lived in as a nickname. One of the most famous (and still alive at 75) is Captain Crunch who learned that a toy whistle packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal emitted a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that AT&T long lines used to indicate that a trunk line was available for routing a new call. (Wiki)

 

Yeah, some “handles” are predictable.

It’s pretty much a given the practice that went into the phrase, “they call me (Ghost Rider)” when you hear it on the radio.

I just use an easy one-syllable name like the one I give them at the food joints. Otherwise the Royal titles and correct ordering thereof is a little much.

MG might tell you his IF you also have the Super Secret Decoder Ring.

 

Lol there was a company who det up your cb handle and it was on a cb handle registry of some sort(in the 90's)so im as close to copy right to mine as ill ever get,even got the card to prove it.