copson
91 posts
Feb 15, 2013
12:12 PM
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KAMP 1045 !!! I had a home base, and mobile.. The home base was a navaho 23 channel with lower channel's. a 300 watt linear, and a golden eagle chicken choker mike with a set of drake beams on a 30ft tower for the antenna. and my mobile was a 23 channel cobra also with lower channels and a 100 watt linear.. Came home one morning from work and the home base and linear box were being confiscated and the beams dismanteld by the fed's. Then they removed my cb from my car and took that linear box also.. I was fined $500.00 for the illegal base operation and $250.00 for the mobile operation and ordered into court.. I had to pay all fines, plus court cost.
all my hardware that they took was put into storage at DESC, and i was informed that i could claim all the hardware, ( except the linears ), in five years.. That's what happens when you think you just know it all, and your really just young and stupid !!!. OH!, and dont even listen to your dad.. Never Never Run illegal power..!!!. I never claimed my property from DESC.. All my cb friends in our cb club had a good laugh with a lot of TOLD YOU SO'S....LOL...
Last Edited by copson on Feb 15, 2013 12:42 PM
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copson
93 posts
Feb 15, 2013
3:15 PM
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Yeah donw, You look legit to me. So much of the communications done by law enforcement now is through the computer systems. The scanner's will soon be a thing of the past too.. We alway's had a scanner going in our house. Mom could keep tab's on dad cause she worried so much about him..Sometime's instead of calling our house, the dispatch would just say Hey Richard give us a call, and he would call in.. It was nice when the 450's came into play. It was much safer for the officer's..It was a blast to listen to the scanner's...The foot chases were alway's something special..Cant use a keyboard there pal..by the way, I'm sure it was irish coffee, Yes?..One night when i was about 7 years old a few of my father's cop bud's came over to our house and got, well, overloaded with liquid refreshment's.. They rolled me up in a small area rug and rolled me down the the steps in our house.. IDIOTS !!.....
Last Edited by copson on Feb 15, 2013 3:33 PM
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Mark1984
84 posts
Feb 15, 2013
3:33 PM
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copson. Scanners are still very alive and well. I have two. You just need the updated versions of them now. Everyone runs on what is called a trunked radio system. A set of frequencies in the 800 band. They can be a little expensive. And most departments are part of the regional dispatch center now. Its still pretty wild the things your hear. Especially if you can speak the language they use.
Last Edited by Mark1984 on Feb 15, 2013 6:33 PM
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Calhoun
103 posts
Feb 15, 2013
6:21 PM
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The early cordless telephones used radio frequencies accessable by your (then) standard Radio Shack scanners. Back in the day, we had a neighbor who was having an affair and would talk to her boyfriend on her cordless. Based on those conversations, they must have spent some very athletic, quality time together at a no-tell, motel north of town that was infamous in those days.
My sister-in-law and her family lived on the Ohio River in SE Ohio, and on their scanner they picked-up radio calls to/from the tugboats used for coal barges. Things got very exciting when a barge would break loose!
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Billd1952
41 posts
Feb 16, 2013
4:27 PM
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Ah, the early days of CB radios. I attended a few "Coffee Breaks" to meet other CBers locally and a Jamborie in Indiana, a regional gathering, and displays of new equipment on the market, and trading "QSL Cards", with folks from all over the country. Good times..
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Perry401
127 posts
Feb 21, 2013
8:13 AM
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CB was something we tried in the early 1970's but even by that time, those line Copson that had Linear Amps (to boost levels so they could talk hundreds of miles) had already made communications even a few blocks almost impossible. What had started as a service for local people (with 5 Watts power maximum) turned into a second version of Ham Radio -- except to get a Ham licence you had to know Morse Code and take a lot of theory tests and to get a CB license (if you even bothered) you simply had to send a form to the government with a few buck for processing.
Copson -- you are not the first to have been fined for illegal equipment. It is still happening. My brother in law runs a CB shop "down south" catering to truckers and he has guys coming in every day wanting to buy replacement linears and other equipment after being busted with linear amps and having their equipment confiscated! What is funny is I think the fines are still the same -- maybe the government could make up the deficit by applying inflation to FCC fines.
The early CB radios had a crystal set for each channel, and these were not cheap. Many people had radios with only a few working channels (1-23). Then additional channels were added up to 40 and electronic tuning let anyone get onto any channel. Channel 19 was designated for "emergencies" but this channel was abused like all the others.
Recently I have used some of the two-way walkie talkie radios sold many places (even Lowes) on multi-car road trips. These have a range of only a mile or two, but are good for chit-chat along the way like "lets stop for lunch". At about $10.00 each they are also good to give the kids if they want to wander away from camp.
I don't know the technical name for these radios but I assume they are filling the market that CB was supposed to have originally been marketed for.
Back in those days there was an illegal AM station that operated in the Belmont area most Thursday and Friday evenings. It played top ten music and reported on Belmont sports events (like the current scores at basketball games). I think they had about 25 watts and called themselves WBHS (Belmont High School). I don't think the FCC took them too seriously and they just stopped broadcasting one year after graduation.
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Syxpack
54 posts
Feb 21, 2013
11:04 AM
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donw - My son Brian Syx also graduated in Belmont's class of '76. Did you know him?
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copson
97 posts
Feb 22, 2013
3:34 PM
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Perry401, The linears I had back then cost a dollar a watt to have built.. Are the prices about the same now?.. There was no problem for me to reach clear into canada, florida, and even into montana.. virtually to anywhere in the US that i rotated my Drake Beams towards.. And, on a cloudy night i could catch skip off the clouds and easily reach into alaska and Nova Scotia.. You wouldnt believe how many televisions you can mess up when running this kind of power.. Even though I lived in a semi-country setting There were a few unhappy people.. That's why i tried not to run power unless it was very late at night, and the tv's were turned off.. The person that built my linears built radio's for the US during WW2. He was a master, and our radio man at our business. He was a Ham Operator out of Preble County.. the man really knew his business..
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Tomco
5 posts
May 11, 2013
7:36 AM
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I was known as the Stargazer. I had an SBE Trinidad base radio and two Cobra mobiles. My base antenna (Antenna Specialists) was at an illegal height of 60 ft. I rarely ran a linear but could "walk the dog" fairly well anyway. The Old Blindman (aka274) north west of Dayton was a good friend of mine. I miss those great times.
Last Edited by Tomco on May 11, 2013 5:06 PM
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Bill628
42 posts
May 12, 2013
1:38 PM
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I think I've had a scanner since the 60s. My dad had an old portable transistor handheld scanner, buttons and dials to roll the frequency in. Used to sit on the porch at night and listen to Dayton pd. I have a Uniden BC 800 trucking radio now, still alot of fun to listen to!
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Syxpack
104 posts
May 12, 2013
3:59 PM
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Bill, my handheld scanners that I purchased about 15 years ago, no longer work and I miss them so much. Do I need what you have?
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Susan63
21 posts
May 21, 2014
5:48 PM
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My brother had a cb in the mid to late 70's. He was on channel 14. They use to have softball games where they would play with people from other channels. I use to have to sneak to use his cb radio because he would not let me use it. Years later, my ex-husband had a cb radio in his car and I had a base at my house. We would talk to each other when he would drive back home to Xenia until I couldn't pick him up anymore. I use to talk to people from West Carrollton, and he would get jealous if I talked to a guy.
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Susan63
22 posts
May 21, 2014
5:50 PM
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The day my brother put the cb antenna on our roof our nosy neighbors stood outside and watched. We lived in Belmont.
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