Hi all I don't recall any CB radio adverts onthe telly butit appears America had quite a few, enjoy a bit of nostalgia and you may even recognise the name Royce!
Oh I absolutely remember all these during the 70s that’s for sure. That’s when it first started and CB radio was in late 1969 and through the CB boom of the 70s. And here I am all these years later still going strong talking on my radios and enjoying the company that CB brings
That was when ya had the experience of someone actually knowing something and didn't have to wait an hour to buy a pack of LED's while they were busy setting up someone's phone.
@@fwingebritson I bought my first "mobile phone" from Radio Shack back in the 80s. It was the size of a shoe box and came in a nylon bag with a separate compartment for the battery, which was the size of a chalkboard eraser. Oh wait, nobody knows what a chalkboard is.
Well Im not old enough to remember any of these adds but sure was cool to watch. As with most Aussies I have a UHF CB in my 4wd and love listening in while driving. ONe day I hope to get a home base set up as well.
Hi Mick, there was talk of a UHF system over here for us around 440mhz but it nver came to anything, they did in the end give us 934mhz but the kit was too expensive so not many went on and that has now been withdrawn. But with the legalisation of SSB and AM finally we are a happy bunch!
Tandy (Radio Shack) was one of my favorite shops back in the day . I I had had the money I could have bought half the store to take home lol. Missed much more than Maplins will ever be.
@@mallyjoyplaneflighttv Yes gutted when tandy went i did raid our local shops closing down sale and got a few cb bits but it was a very sad time. Hardly any cb radio shops nowadays.
@@britishcbradio1055 None up here at all, if you want anything you have to send for it. You would think Car Spare shops would carry at least antennas and coax and PL259 plugs. But these days they stop selling as soon as the volume of anything drops. Sell it off and get rid and take in nothing to do with it anymore.
@@britishcbradio1055 i got a Pres Lincoln off fleabay , but i was very sceptical , it turned out as new Amazing , you can guess the smile i had on my face ,😁😁 CQ CQ CQDX , get in
@@BoB4jjjjs I was lucky enough last year to call in at Knights cb radio shop, what an aladdins cave of stuff, I was in there a while as so much to see and the good thing was you didn't get hassled they just left you to browse at your leisure, real old school shop and not many about as you say.
Wow, this sure brings back the memories! My very first CB radio in 1969 was Johnson ‘white face‘ base unit coupled with a $9.95 weeping willow ground plane from Radio Shack! My first mobile unit in 1972 was a Hy-Gain and a trunk mount antenna! Ah!…to relive my young days again even if it IS for only a few minutes of a video! Y’all stay safe in 2021 and this old man of 68 years old is waving from Houston, Texas!
Gla d it brought back so many memories and thank you for sharing them, just looked up your radio and that was a nice piece of kit. are you still on the CB? If not theres no time like the present to get back on, lock down in the UK has brought a lot of people back on the air!!
@@britishcbradio1055 > oh yes I still have a CB radio!…Cobra 29 mobile with an R56 noise canceling microphone! I retired in 2015 from 38 years as an OTR coast to coast truck driver here in the USA. I’m planning on going BACK on the open road to live out the rest of my life in a camper van and you can be assured I’ll have my powerful and ‘pumped up’ CB radio in there that I used during my trucking career being on the road! Along with two scanners, one badass stereo system, and, whatever other electronics I can think of! Thanks for your reply! Stay safe!
My grandmother bought a 1977 Cadillac Seville that had an AM/FM/CB stereo with integrated microphone. She never used it but I did whenever I visited her in Pennsylvania.
@@britishcbradio1055 not sure about when they stopped on cars but the larger Harley Davidson motorcycles continued to have integrated CBs until just a few years ago. Now they are an option and most riding groups require them. I have one on mine that was standard equipment and either passenger can operate/key the mic.
My very first radio was a HMV TX 44 that I bought from a friend of mine, I would talk to my school friends on there, and ask for answers on the next days tests😅 lotsa fun back then for sure!👍👌😎
"CB McCall"... what a cool toy series. I would have been 7 or 8 when that came out and I don't remember it at all. Also, the name is a play on "C W McCall", who was the name of the artist who did the song "Convoy" which was responsible for much of the CB hype with the general public.
Never saw it here in the UK as far as i am aware or I would have wanted one, would have been top of my birthday or christmas list! It would have had to be the "Bear Masher" out the three available, what a cool name!
I remember buying a realistic trc-431 am 40 channel set in late 1976 and was told by radio shack staff don't use any channel above 23 until January 1st. I did listen and of course heard numerous stations. Love the old commercials.
Yes I was told the same in1976 wen I Bay a new Jc Pennys digital display 40 Ch Cb with only 4 watts...my Midland 23 Ch had 5 watts + a secret ch 24 were the PA blank space was ( I still have my Old 23 Ch + 1 secret ch 24 call the 22 1/2 Ch Midland Cb
Awesome!!! Ive still got a massive collection of seventies and early eighties cb mags, also got loads of the old eyeball badges and sew on patches😊thanks for posting this 😊
FCC License required. Wonder how many disregarded it and just used it anyway. The heyday of CB radio. It's how I got my start into Amateur radio and electronics!
Hi I am on a little island off the north kent coast called the "Isle of Sheppy" about 25 miles east of london in the estuary, so not technically on the mainland of the UK!
Soemone else mentioned ford granadas, I thought they were and english motor the ones in the advert look american so assumed they would be chevy, pontiac etc, I only know a ford granada from the tv series the sweeney and the steering wheel is on the other side to the ones in the commercials.
@@Johnysoutherner Well with the current covid situation no excuse but to get a few wored up and going and take a trip down memory lane, sounds a very nice collection.
thanks Paul, I did own a colonel FR360 (briefly) many years ago but to be honest I can't recall how it performed as didn't have it long, so thanks for the endorsement, good to know they are a good radio.
@@jeep146 He appeared on some equipment as well. We had him mostly on 789rpm records, then when 45's came out RCA changed to an orange label, shame as I quite liked Nipper.
Now that I'm grown up I drive a truck with a bear masher and hidden, human-sized compartments. Somewhere in the garage I still have that CB McCall prototype.
Many thanks for the comment, its getting near to the sunspot peak at present so ssb is very active. Good excuse to get anotherssb radio and relive the good times!! 👍
In case no one else noticed, the voice-guy at the end of the Hy-Gain spot 1:01-1:04 is none other than Casey Kasem, of American Top-40 fame. (Casey was also the original voice of Shaggy, on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You)
My first CB was a Heathkit 100 mw walkie talkie that I assembled. The 2nd CB was a Heathkit GW12 base that I assembled at the age of 13 back in 1963. We had call signs then and people obeyed the rules and were pleasant, . . I still own a GW12 and it still works
Hi Martin, If you haven't watched my video " I have a project for us all" please have a view, I would love to include you inthe video I am putting togetehr as sounds like you have some great memories and love a picture of your GW12 to put in.
@@martincvitkovich724 Check out the video with the picture of the woman holding the mic, its a very recent video i posted. My contact details are in the video, think you and have to say you may hold the record for the oldest piece of equipment, nice!!! that it is still going strong and sure people will appreciate seeing it, theres some info I am requesting from everyone like handle, favourite memory etc you will see it all in there.many thanks.
I had a HyGain 9 in 1980 didnt care it could be boot mounted, the up down channel buttons made it so easier to change channel than a knob, but it was only AM
Ford granadas where?? LOL You must be thinking of the sweeney, great TV series but no cb radios unfortuantley. Not sure what model they are being american cars so can't help on that one.
@@britishcbradio1055 literally heard a male truck driver say on channel 19... "I'm gonna have to get me a bra if I have to keep drivin' on this road... my titties are hurtin'!" 😆
No one I knew had a license. Ran a Cobra with the old 102 inch whip on the rear bumper. First contact sitting in LA and talked to a guy on a mountain above Denver Colo. I'm the Malfunction Junction and back on the side.
Ah the old 102 inch whip, I too had one of those but like everything you have something but for the life of you can't remember what the hell you did with it, probably lent it out and never got it back.
I lived a quarter mile from the 405/605 interchange at the L.A./Orange County Line so there were 20 lanes of truckers whizzing by my house (well at the embargo speed of 55 mph lol). Never a dull moment in the mid 70’s.
Great story. I lived in Los Angeles in those early CB days and never a dull moment with all the freeway truckers. Still have my midland 120ch ssb from 1977. 73 de KI1Y, Cocoa Beach, FL.
@@britishcbradio1055 yes here in East Central Florida (Brevard County), we have quite a few active between 7-10pm on 16 and truckers traveling north from Miami on I-95 on 19. Compared to the peak around ‘75-78 in a big city like L.A., it is quite a bit less. I can pick up many more distant folks in the eastern part of the country on all the other channels. Most of them are running over 1kw though!
u sbrits only drinkl the finest "PG Tips" tea! Coffee thats unheard of!! Glad you enjoyed it, i like the old nostalgia and would be great to have an old radio night, maybe I may host one in the future!
@@britishcbradio1055 The cb Meertings back in the day were sometimes called coffee breaks, Anyway- stop in for the live show this weekend 8PM EST. have a great weekend , 21
You should watch the Oddity Archive, he made an episode on the American CB craze of the mid-70s. Ever heard the song "Convoy"? Yes, it happened and it was ridiculous then as ridiculous it looks now.
Ridiculous???? LOL wash you mouth out that man, its great wouldn't change if for the world! Convoy was the film that probably got most of us in the UK started on CB or at least it certainlky helped, one of my favourite moves up there with mokey and the bandit - classics!
Not wure where you are steven but int he UK channel 9 did have montors for a while called the (REACT) team but like anything when it got less popular they all packed it in.
The part when the Radio Shack commercial said We Make Our Own Crystals!!!!! 😪. I don't care who you are if you did anything with electronics you were in a Radio Shack period.
Well said, they were tandys in the UK and was a sad day when they closed, was at my local branches closing sale picking up a few cb bits when they went.
Great idea to show these great videos !!! I started contact with CB by 1963 and by 1966 I was fully operacional. It was dangerous to use a CB radio in Portugal at that time 😀😀😀. The Political Police (nazi style police) used channel 14 AM portables for their stakeouts 😂😂😂😂😂 (stupid pricks😂😂😂). We had mono channel radios, also some super regenerative receivers (for instant all band monitoring). Than, the 2, 3, 6 and 23 channels became popular. I still keep a TOKAI TC-1001, and its deluxe version partner XTAL XSSB-10 both 23 channel AM/SSB 😀😀😀 (in full working order 😁😁). Good old days 👍👍👍. (Portables were: Tokai TC-512, PONY CB-36, etc. still own them all. Even have a para-military strong zamac, olive green, mono channel, tape antenna, 9V battery ONKYO from the 1960/70's (military, at the time, channels 27,315 and 27,345 MHz). City Police on 27,265 MHz. Great times....
Hi Joao, interstuing stuff, we also had to be careful when on the CB in the late 70's as you got fined and your CB gear confiscated if they tracked you down and they were out looking for you!
Wao.... very nice comercias but that was the in the 70's & 80's comercias ..today I don't see them on TV .... Now Cb radio is not as popular like in the 70's...new technology's like cellphone & internet is more interesting to the New generations ...I was one of the many that have a Cb in my car back in highschool ( 1975 -1976 ) Cb was the Facebook of the 70's .. today I'm a ham radio operator but I have my Old Midland 23ch Cb ready for and emergency ( I live in Puerto Rico and when Huracan Irma & Maria hit the island in Sept 2017 we loose Al communications and electric systems roads were Bock, community's were isolated and only Cb and ham radios were the ones to get help ( local repeater's were out or whit no electricity & gas only some few were preper whit solar panels that work..) ham radio help whit sending message's out to the families out of Puerto Rico but Cb were the ones helping local isolated community's were ham repeater's were out ( lots of people that had use CB's in the 70's were looking for new CB's and the ones that were still in use were of great help ) so you can see Cb radio are Not all out of the picture in 2021 they are a reliable communication system in and emergency that any one can use to get help ( not having a ham license and whit No repeater's )..you miss the good old times good buddy...is that a 10-4.....73's to all from KAHK 4031 ( my old Cb LIC ) & WP4EFM ( Ham Lic )
@@britishcbradio1055 well Amigo my Midland 23 Ch + 1 secret ch 24 is in use here in Puerto Rico whit a home made wire dipole ( the best antenna to use in a huracan if it goes down and you fix it in a few minutes ) also I have it with 2 emergency lights 12 v batteries and a small solar panel to keep it change...this is necessary to have in a island that can't be hit by Huracan's ... today Puerto Rico learn how to be prepared and we now have updated better electric systems and communications for this tipe of emergency's the new puertorican generation's know that cellphone and Internet don't work and can't go down in huracan's ( in Huracan Irma & Maria they were locos because No Facebook, No cell signal, No internet for more than 4 to 8 week and more in some isolated area's ) they learn how the older generation's pass ther time whit out electricity and water... this was good for family relations and preperthem for what was next ( No jobs and a bad economy that make them go to the USA to look for jobs and a new life, today is covi19 )...the population was 4 million in Sept 2017 now is some were in the 2.8 million and that's what Maria did to Puerto Rico.. Huracains are no joke so we are prepere for them and my old Midland 23 Ch radio is there ready for the action.. hope you learned something of are experience in a huracain or a emergency ...73 to all out there ... KAHK 4031 ( old Cb LIC ) & WP4EFM ( ham Lic )
Bay the way we have a 6.2 earthquake in Jan of 2020 and it kept going this movement and small earthquakes for months the Civil defense, Ham's, Cb's local police and the population in general get ready for the next big one...therwere a huracain and Earthquake emergency simulation and we learn how to be ready for that tipe of situation if it happen also for a big sunami..hope we don't have to go and work it some day..whit are radios..
Cell phones pretty much killed the CB. The only time I pick up anyone is on the highways/motorways. You can find them cheap on auction sites or garage sales. The base stations or mobiles with Single Side band still go for a higher price even used.
Not sure what e-skip event is but in the uk we have pretty decent copverage, looks like you in ther states and from reports it seems like there are still quite a few of you boys on the air still over there.Some days when you turn on it can be quiet but hang in there as other days its very busy, just depends what time you tuning in.
@@britishcbradio1055 people have heard CB from Long Island in the UK before via double hop e skip, it basically is a rare atmospheric phenomena where you get reception from 600-1200 miles away like it was a local.
Just had t look up who he was, he was not known over here as far as I know as Ihad never heard of him but for others this will be intersting, thanks for posting Chris.
@@britishcbradio1055 analog ..coverage of the spectrum...the old radio technology/television..could independently tune across the range...the new digital devices are all pre build to work only on a set frequency signal...the new devices can’t go off road..lol!..however the microphone in smartphones is no different to how CB microphone works...as we could listen to a conversation on a channel through CB radio...nothing has changed with digital...the signal./airwaves..!...
@@britishcbradio1055 I still haven't seen any covid around here but that's a separate subject lol. My daughter had it and it wasn't any worse than a mild cold. My freinds got sicker from the vaccine than she did with the dang virus
@@JohnnyRebKy we've both had it sand believe me its not nice, had my first jab recently and was as sick as a dog, but the second is not supposed to be sop bad, so something to look forward too!
Loved my CB in the early 80's........Shame it died out here in UK..at least as far as I know. I still have a number of them in a box. A couple Harrier CBX's and a DNT M40.......and a hand held I think...maybe a Realistic..not sure...been a while since I last looked.
@@Bodneyblue Yes its leagal on the mid band 26.965-27.405 but most people knopw are dxing on the old triple 555 27.555mhz, as long as you are considerate and don't ineterfere with anyone which now they have chenged from analogue to digital tv our main problem is gone, you are pretty much left alone to enjoy the hobby.
Very nice radios Tim!!! We don't see many 1000's over here in the UK but the Cobra 19 is a bit more common, the 19 has a lovely look to itI have to say, similar to the Super 4E layout on the fascia I covered recently but more striking in my opinion.
I drove halfway across Washington from Seattle on I90 East today, I called many times on 19 and didn't get a single response. Hardly anyone on anymore.
Hi Josh It sometimes can depend on when you are about, I am inthe U.K and we have the same thing here, some days no one some day sloads of people about. Hang on in there and if you have SSB give that a go on ch38 as we quite often here you guys over here on that channel.
@@britishcbradio1055 Same in the USA. The "FCC license required" was supposed to be mandatory but in the late 1970s CBs were so popular that everybody who bought a new radio essentially said a collective "forget that' and the FCC couldn't really do anything. It's kind of like if everyone committed a crime would there be enough jails to everyone?
@@dieselscience Our faded out as it was costing them to run it so they just gave up! Which was good news as £15 (Uk Pounds ) a year was a joke as we got nothing for it.
@@britishcbradio1055 It's essentially a tax, and the same thing here. When Motorola released the small (size of a deck of cards) GMRS/FRS radios it was the same, you could buy them without a test or license of any kind but you're supposed to mail in some paperwork and include a fee. That didn't go over too well either. BUT, the Baofeng 2 meters handhelds were a different story.
@@dieselscience The GMRS/FRS have always been unregulated here due to the limited range but they are quite popular with people seeing how far they can actually get onthem, its called PMR over here and I have one so will post a vid one day.
Yes I agree it does bring back memories however CB Radios more so the UHF now 80 channel is not all its cracked up to be why there are idids out there with hi power allso playing music over it as well as corsing trouble for others that respect the radio for what it's meant for talking with another friend's however the ACMA have not been doing there job when it's been needed look at ch3 Adelaide and ch4 port Pirie that little ch3 Adelaide is just as bad and I will not put up with it so with that yes I still have my UHF radio's just not 80 channel in all fearnes some thing needs to be done about it and farst before these ideits take over the UHF radio's with the use of there hi power and more I only pray and hope that the ACMA see this update and Act on this update soon cos IAM getting p#### of with if thay don't wish to do eneything more about it then all I can say is being back the licence to both the UHF and 27mhz radio's all I have is UHF but in saying that the ACMA and the licence is the best if by All means the best way to go is how I see it in my view
Hi Steven, The licence here didn't make any difference with regard to playing music etc, unfortunately what ever hobby you bchoose theres always the mindless few out there, but if you enjoy it don't let them ruin it for you not all operators are bad ones, theres more good out there than bad. Feel your frustration but find some good contacts and hopefully you willmeet a good crowd and enjoy it again. Hope all works out.
I am afraid the ACMA don’t care Steven they are only really interested in selling expensive spectrum for mobile telephone and data uses they abandoned CB a long time ago and are on the path to do the same to the Amateur service.....
