My grandmother purchased two units when I was a young boy. She lived up on a mountain about 30 miles away. I believe they were Royce units. She had my father install one at our house and he also installed one at her house. Every night I would call her and talk to her. It was a big deal as a kid.
Wow, what a time warp! Brought back some really fond memories of when CB still had some sence of deciency. The worst words hell and damn... and this was in '69 ? Awsome post!
I restore old CB's for a living and nothing sounds as good as tube audio. Lafayette, Robyn, Teaberry, Colt, Tram, Browning..... There were so many good radios back then. So sad the quality of CB's has dropped so far over the years.
My dad had the beam shown at 4:45 on top of his tower on the far eastside of Indianapolis. Back in the late 60's he ran a Browning S/9 transmitter and R2700a receiver along with (if needed) a Knight T-175 amplifier which then went into his Drake W4 watt meter. He had a Johnson Messenger 323 in the car with a Lafayette HA-250 amplifier. I still remember those radios very well, as a kid I stared at them for hours listening to him talk skip on early Sunday mornings. Great memories.
Great stuff, brings back a ton of memories of the many hours of great fun on the CB back in the day. You should add more recordings if you have them and by the way, the audio on these clips are great too.
first CB in 1965 led to my Novice license in 1967 and still on the air here daily ( HF CW ) in 2020 ... Thanks for a great start Citizens band ...it worked and it did what it was intended to do ...
@@crosisofborg5524 A couple of those kids are still on the air in the philly area. Old men now,, I won't mention any handles but they are on the air there almost every night
It just shows you how great these older radios sounded on AM 50 years ago or so. The recording is great, but so were the radios. Newer radios are crap compared to these old sets.
warm smooth sound of tubies ... i love this...its before my time but my dads very active in c.b. and i had to pass this his way. these stations sound soo good. the audio. mmmmmmmm Radio Station 033 great lakes.
Before 1970, quite a few radios didn't have all 23 channels. The last holdout was Lafayette's HE-20T/TA. After the 40 channel era began in 1977 all radios were 40 channels.
Must've been recorded on a reel tape at a higher ips? Sounds great. Have you ever heard of the phone phreaker Evan Doorbell. In depth reel recordings from the 70s and 80s - He's on soundcloud.com Check it out.
@@MichiganPeatMoss Will do so. I had some audio from another website of early 70s cb radio. Regrettably I cannot find it. If I do it'll be posted somewhere.
I agree the audio of the old tubers can't be beat. I also have been repairing and collecting tube and solid state radio equipment for many years and have dozens of radios with different names that use this very reliable panasonic chassis like Lafayette, Robyn, Gemtronics etc. I also have quite a few still new in their original boxes as well as the very popular yellow Robyn 240D and once in awhile between customer repairs i will get one out, recap it etc because of the age, give it an alignment and list it for sale. I also have dozens of super nice Johnson messenger 1&2 as well as some of them still in their boxes. I also have hundreds of NOS tubes and parts for these good oldies.
Got into the hobby with my dad in 1969. Started out with a Lafayette HB 600 and an Astro Beam. Moved on to Siltronix 1011 and then a Yeasu FT 101B with a PDL 2 beam. Good times.
Thanks for your comment . brought back such memories . walkie talkies were so much fun and was always exciting when a cb broadcast came through on them . also when a passing jetliners transmission was picked up .
"OK, FLOWER MOUTH. You're gonna get five knuckles, you and that buck--teethed whale hog down there." - I wish i had been around when people still settled stuff with words like that.
This sounds exactly how it was in my neighborhood of Brooklyn. I started out on the CB when I was about 8 years old with Walkie Talkies and walked and talked all over my neighborhood and everyone got to know me on the radio. There was a guy called ARTIE WINDJAMMER and he was the most powerful CB'er in the Neighborhood.
Wow I can't believe you mentioned Artie . I lived in Midwood . Knew Artie personally . But if you remember correctly my friend Tommy Mellow Yellow was by far the most powerful . He ran a Kw and was up 6 stories right on the water . This guy blew smoke . I did ok for myself . I ran 750 watts out of a PDL II . >>> Mike Bacalla 😇 I have to know you if you know Artie and the old channel 15 crew... are you Vinnie Ravioli ? Do you remember him or Gino Firestick , Billy Bozo , any of them guys from back in the early 80's ? Man did we have fun back then . Plz get back to me .I would love to hear from you .
my dad got into CB radio around 1968 due to him going blind so he could have something to do. somewhere around the early 80s he switched to Ham because of the way CB was going. he died in 2008 but me and my brother are still in CB today. where we live there is a group on channel 20 but other than that it is dead around here. they keep saying it is coming back but I just do not see it right now as of January 2023. but do remember the good ole days.
My brothers and I had HE 88 Walkie Talkies in 1965-68 that our Dad bought for us to have on our morning paper routes. Allied Realistic made great products. Thanks for the memories.
I bought a brand new Comstat 23 back in '69. I LOVED the smell of that radio when it got warmed up. After a while, that wore off. I sold it when the TELSAT 23 solid state came out later in that year with it's break through SINGLE IC chip! I STILL HAVE that radio in original box with manual and accessories along with the original sales slip. I had to special order it because the Lafayette store in my area did not have them in stock. I have my amateur radio ticket now, but STILL keep a Uniden GRANT with Turner +3B on my station desk beside the Yaesu DX-3000-D and my brand new Kenwood TS-890 ((O: PS. I got recordings of 11 meter recordings from 1969 on 5" reel to reel tapes as well. Fun times back then, lots of fighting too LOL.
I met some of my best friends in my entire life back in the CB days here in Albany New York, some great times some fantastic people! KNF-7851 Delta Range
Upper Darby, PA (suburb of West Philly). My wonderful parents bought me a CB a couple years after the time this poster's recording was made. It was a Comstat 19, 100' RG8 and a Super-Mag II. I changed my handle over the years back then: "UFO", "Brandywine", "BlueJay", maybe others I don't recall. I eventually bought a Hy-Gain 4-element and a rotor, and an HB-625A. I met so many people both on the air and in person. So many of their handles I've forgotten, I remember only a few: "Peaches", "Money Man", "Glen", "Johnny C", "Rascal" ... I've forgetten more of them as the years passed. I haven't been on the air since the late 1970s. There was a time when I'd thought about getting back in to it but then I realized, I should just let things be; my experiences during those years were best-ofs, there's no going back. In later years I got my ham ticket, but I had been working with electronics since I was 9-10 years old. These days, I cherish the memories.
@@chuckmuziani6262 my handle is cherry bomb. I was on in early 1974 through part of 1981. I remember speaking with Rascal, Johnny C, Barry (Richmond) lived in Drexel Hill. We lived in clifton heights on Oak Avenue. Our CB buddies Quasar, Ashcan, Starburst lived on Crestwood and Seven Oaks Drive.
@@tomrusso1533 Barry passed a while ago. He used to live on the main line. DO you remember MoneyMan, Peaches, Glen, and I forget the handle of the guy who had a Sigma 5/8 wave in Kirklyn/Havertown.
Even in the late 80's (89-90) to the mid 90's there was still a lot of activity in the far South Suburbs of Chicago. Multiple base stations, mobiles, etc. it was sooo much fun. When I first started in late 88 we used to have impromptu "Fox hunts" almost every other week. There always seemed to be "hate and discontent" on the air but NEVER heard of anything happening, it was a lot of talk...
1969 - some (in)famous Philadelphia CB'ers - Channel 2 & 20 (Fishtown & Kensington) - Sloppy Joe, Sharpshooter, Washing Machine Charlie, Gene, Phantom, Lightning, Two-Wheels, Four-Wheels, Ramrod, Dipper, Sparky, Professor Fruitcake, Dr. Riggy Mortis, Fairlane, Cobra, Redwood, Dixie Bell, Nomad. Pat Jacoby from Huntington Valley was never welcomed for long.
So "CB" as we knew it post-1974-75 was ... pretty much exactly the same as it was before 1974-75. I have to say, the audio quality here is phenomenal. Thanks.
Man I love my Cb . I hve a Galaxy 98vhp in my big rig and I just bought a General Lee . Both radios are from Clays in San Antonio Texas. The General Lee is in my jeep
*Wow! that Comstat-25 brings back memories! I had the Comsat 19, then I "upgraded" to the Comsat 25 - BYW, a little trivia: Whether these models were called "Comsat" or "Comstat" depended on the year you bought it: I don't know why, by the spelling for these models went back and forth. Very annoying!* *I still remember my call sign, issued 1960: KKD-0796! When I got the license, I got the radio, then I upgraded to the 25 when I got my ham license (the 25 could be rebanded to 10 meters really easily!).* *Good Times!*
The TRC-10 is in my parents garage. I remember that being the first radio we had mounted in the car. My dad originally purchased channels 9 and 19. I think we ended having crystals for channel 9, 14, 10, and 19. We never did get 2 more to complete the rig as 23 channel had dropped in price by that time.
I’m not sure, but I think one of those radios is a cobra cam 88. They have a sound all their own, and I love the guy by the sound of that pop he’s using an old tram. Love that to Boggio there’s nothing like it
@@dw8840 , I have an Imperial and three Olson Sidebander rigs. They tended to sound scratchy and the operator spent a lot of time explaining that it's supposed to sound like that!
Free internet, but it was crazy! My handle was Casey, Idyllwild, and we had no other communication, "Off the grid". We talked all night, during the weekends. Lots of fun. 1978.
Ah those were the Days. I had a Realistic trc30a like they showed in this Video plus are local area we talked on Channel 8 Good Times. Now I live in the middle of no where waiting for this Solar minimum to end so I can turn my Radio and Linear on and Talk again .
That was actually a TRC-23. It's a mirror Image of the 30A. The 30A was actually a 1976 only radio, but they sold millions and I have two in my collection.
HAHAHA!! WOW! That's great! Breaker Breaker one-nine. I got the Miami version of that experience in the 80''s. Lots of Spanish and "power mics". Lot's of "stop stepping on me man!" A friend from New York helped me set up a mobile unit with a power supply as a "base station".
Wow, REALLY NICE audio for 1969, even by today's hotrod export Galaxy audio standards. Do you recall any of the radios used by the two louder stations, the Loud Lady or the older "gentleman"? Tram? Browning? Lafayette? Johnson? Sonar? General? Pearce Simpson Gladiator? Other? ...after listening to the entire soireé, I'm now so nostalgic I could shed a tear. How I miss those days on the old Messenger 223, D104 gray base, Maverick 250, Penetrator 5/8 and an antenna or two on EVERY block! Never a dull moment on any channel, 'til the internet happened. Anyone remember Foxy Lady from Sacramento, CA? We were only a few miles apart.
The lady and her husband were using a Tram Titan II and a D-104. He was a plumber and she would dispatch his calls to him during the day. At night, it was their social circle. We kids got to join the conversations as long as we knew our place.
Any possiblity of other cb radio chat sessions that you may have to share with us? Sure brings back memories. I still remember my fcc callsign like it was yesterday. Thanks for sharing.
..I heard a mention of "Parzik"......I had a teacher named Parzik @ Haverford Jr. High in 1969 .....Have not heard that name in years...a coincidence ?!!
Back when the FCC closely monitored the 27MHz and would visit your home if you violated the rules, and every new CB Radio came with an application for an FCC license. I sure miss those days, it was fun.
The sound quality of AM is awesome.. 1980s we used it illegally in the UK.. Spent years fighting for AM whilst struggling on our shitty FM 27/81..now we have legal AM SSB we don't use it.. Spend day after day on 19 UK FM.. Throwing 200watts at each other... Boring... Keep AM cb alive
Sorry, i know this was posted 5 years ago but, This is exactly why i sped right past cb and got into ham radio. interesting to see though that guys were the same back 50 plus years ago as they are now. I have three c.bs, i just dont use them . Great historical audio though, i listened to the whole thing.
What radio and recorder did you use for this? It's amazing that even recorded audio sounded much better on these older tube type AM radios then solid states today.
It was recorded on my Wollensak reel to reel recorder directly from the tape-out jack of a Comstat 23, when I was just a kid. It's surprising how good that old equipment was.
Anyone who thinks radios have gotten better in the last 48 years doesn't know much about radios. 1969 was the golden era of vacuum tube CBs and great audio and it was before the "Good Buddy" phase of the hobby ruined it after around 1975. 23 channels were just fine, thanks (hell some of us only had 5 channels) and we didn't need any scan functions or roger beeps or weather channels or echo microphones or power mics....etc.....
Amazing fidelity. On Soundcloud, Evan Doorbell has an incredible archival and narration of the old Bell phone system, using his reel to reel machines. i was fiddling with Compact Cassette in the 80s. Definitely diminished fidelity from the reel tapes.
ArchivePix This is hands down my favorite CB radio related TH-cam clip. Even though I was in NY (BK) and didn't operate a CB radio until around 74 the qso's were very similar. Your memories are relatable. The fact that these people were recorded in PA and NJ doesn't matter. It's a time capsule and I'm so sorry I didn't keep the recordings I made of the old channel 15 crew that operated in Bensonhurst, Coney island, bay ridge, Dyker hights and Borough Park. thanks for having the foresight to save these recordings for prosperity. Their probably more important than most realize. Thanks again.
OMG YES .. MY DAYS .. I REMEMBER SO WELL .. OHIO was Little NICER on Radio Then BIG CITY of PHILLY , PA ... IT WAS SO MUCH FUN .. Here In SW OHIO In The Early 1970's ... Mid 70's .. And Late 70's .... EACH NIGHT .. DAD and Me ( Me At Times ) Talking On The CB RADIO ... FUN .. FUN ..
CB radio stations sounded so good back then, before all the echo, reverbs, supermods, class C amps and other nonsense the few people that still get on it use. I started on it when I was 11 in 1987. It was still very active and we had the same feuding that got out of hand a few times. I got back in it in 2015 and got out of it several months ago. It was a total joke with hardly anyone out there. Most of these people on this recording are probably dead now.
Listen to that punchy modulation from the tube rigs of those days. Excellent audio 👍
The Tube rigs had fantastic audio and a lot more fun to use
My grandmother purchased two units when I was a young boy. She lived up on a mountain about 30 miles away. I believe they were Royce units. She had my father install one at our house and he also installed one at her house. Every night I would call her and talk to her. It was a big deal as a kid.
Wow, what a time warp! Brought back some really fond memories of when CB still had some sence of deciency. The worst words hell and damn... and this was in '69 ? Awsome post!
😂--- I could listen to this all day long. this brought back so many great memories... thanks for the smiles and laughter....
I could listen to that over and over. All those rig's were glowing and, all almost excellent. Great throwback recording. Every cber should hear this.
Quality recordings. Nice job. Hope it encourages others to dig through old recordings and post. Don't see many like this.
I restore old CB's for a living and nothing sounds as good as tube audio. Lafayette, Robyn, Teaberry, Colt, Tram, Browning..... There were so many good radios back then. So sad the quality of CB's has dropped so far over the years.
Why is that? Why is the old CB sounding a much better than a radio from this day and age?
Thanks for your answer :-) One more Question, Why is Europe using FM for CB transmissions and The States AM? Why not worldwide uniform Modulation?
123s are easy to fix
MikesRadioRepair nothing like an old tube radio hooked up to a dave made pushing 1000 watts plus
I have a few vintage tube radios that I'm looking for someone to go thru what is your location and how an I get ahold of you
My dad had the beam shown at 4:45 on top of his tower on the far eastside of Indianapolis. Back in the late 60's he ran a Browning S/9 transmitter and R2700a receiver along with (if needed) a Knight T-175 amplifier which then went into his Drake W4 watt meter. He had a Johnson Messenger 323 in the car with a Lafayette HA-250 amplifier. I still remember those radios very well, as a kid I stared at them for hours listening to him talk skip on early Sunday mornings. Great memories.
Great stuff, brings back a ton of memories of the many hours of great fun on the CB back in the day. You should add more recordings if you have them and by the way, the audio on these clips are great too.
first CB in 1965 led to my Novice license in 1967 and still on the air here daily ( HF CW ) in 2020 ... Thanks for a great start Citizens band ...it worked and it did what it was intended to do ...
This has to be the best CB video on TH-cam. This is an amazing high quality audio time capsule from 1969.
just think, most of those people are likely dead now.
@@crosisofborg5524 A couple of those kids are still on the air in the philly area. Old men now,, I won't mention any handles but they are on the air there almost every night
@@rh3309 are they still on channel 8
@@dw8840 27am
Those radios sound a lot better than today.
They sound soo damn good. 😊
Utterly brilliant! I was a kid in those days and this recording NAILED it! Thanks for the memories! :--)
Arthur Godfrey reference - PRICELESS!
It just shows you how great these older radios sounded on AM 50 years ago or so. The recording is great, but so were the radios.
Newer radios are crap compared to these old sets.
Because they were tube
Much more civilized than 75 meters today.
You are so correct 75 Is pretty bad.
LOL or 7.200.00
Or 147.435 in Los Angeles
You are correct
I miss the good ole days of CB radio and un-censored communication.
It still is uncensored
Man im definetly going to get a tube cb now. They sound and look awesome!
I miss the CB days.
warm smooth sound of tubies ... i love this...its before my time but my dads very active in c.b. and i had to pass this his way. these stations sound soo good. the audio. mmmmmmmm Radio Station 033
great lakes.
Wow man, HIFI modulation with those 60's tube cb radio's is 50x better than today's transistor radio's and a zillion times better than DRM !!
Yes. They sound great
Thats why old rigs like Brownings Trams ect ect demand such good prices!!!!
Too bad most had 13 or 21 channels
Before 1970, quite a few radios didn't have all 23 channels. The last holdout was Lafayette's HE-20T/TA. After the 40 channel era began in 1977 all radios were 40 channels.
Hey I used to have that Lafayette radio back in the early 1980s.
I love it (no sarcasm intended!) anytime I hear raw audio from a bygone era recorded by the reel-to-reels and other media of the time.
Must've been recorded on a reel tape at a higher ips? Sounds great. Have you ever heard of the phone phreaker Evan Doorbell. In depth reel recordings from the 70s and 80s - He's on soundcloud.com Check it out.
@@MichiganPeatMoss Will do so. I had some audio from another website of early 70s cb radio. Regrettably I cannot find it. If I do it'll be posted somewhere.
I agree the audio of the old tubers can't be beat. I also have been repairing and collecting tube and solid state radio equipment for many years and have dozens of radios with different names that use this very reliable panasonic chassis like Lafayette, Robyn, Gemtronics etc. I also have quite a few still new in their original boxes as well as the very popular yellow Robyn 240D and once in awhile between customer repairs i will get one out, recap it etc because of the age, give it an alignment and list it for sale. I also have dozens of super nice Johnson messenger 1&2 as well as some of them still in their boxes. I also have hundreds of NOS tubes and parts for these good oldies.
Wished I were closer I'd love to check out some of your tube radios
I've got several myself. Lafayette, Robyn, Gemtronics, Teaberry, a Browning and a Tram 201 and a titan.
Got into the hobby with my dad in 1969. Started out with a Lafayette HB 600 and an Astro Beam. Moved on to Siltronix 1011 and then a Yeasu FT 101B with a PDL 2 beam. Good times.
I was a little kid about this time listening to the CB calls on my walkie talkie. Later in the 1970s I bought a base station and had a blast with it.
Thanks for your comment . brought back such memories . walkie talkies were so much fun and was always exciting when a cb broadcast came through on them . also when a passing jetliners transmission was picked up .
What an amazing thing to record and over 50 yrs ago!. I wish there was a lot more of this type of material that was available to listen to.
Audio sound's great,Ceramic microphones and tube modulators.
You should have a Part 2 from these tapes, good stuff!
Indeed, here it is: th-cam.com/video/CJl7bbi3p2I/w-d-xo.html
"OK, FLOWER MOUTH. You're gonna get five knuckles, you and that buck--teethed whale hog down there."
- I wish i had been around when people still settled stuff with words like that.
I was around then. It was the best. :-)
Clean out your ears dummy. He said groundhog.
Then they'd get together at a coffee break, and everyone would have a good time.
This sounds exactly how it was in my neighborhood of Brooklyn. I started out on the CB when I was about 8 years old with Walkie Talkies and walked and talked all over my neighborhood and everyone got to know me on the radio. There was a guy called ARTIE WINDJAMMER and he was the most powerful CB'er in the Neighborhood.
Wow I can't believe you mentioned Artie . I lived in Midwood . Knew Artie personally . But if you remember correctly my friend Tommy Mellow Yellow was by far the most powerful . He ran a Kw and was up 6 stories right on the water . This guy blew smoke . I did ok for myself . I ran 750 watts out of a PDL II . >>> Mike Bacalla 😇 I have to know you if you know Artie and the old channel 15 crew... are you Vinnie Ravioli ? Do you remember him or Gino Firestick , Billy Bozo , any of them guys from back in the early 80's ? Man did we have fun back then . Plz get back to me .I would love to hear from you .
I remember Tommy Mellow Yellow also. And Tommy WW/Wild wind and Jake the Snake and many others. @@J0EYbagaDONUTS
My handle was Scarecrow when I was a Kid then it was Vinny Bodybuilder when I was older. Lived on 66th st. and 17th ave.
I came into being in 1991, but I remember my mom and her now-deceased boyfriend used to use the CB, so this brings back memories.
You are all listening to the original internet !
my dad got into CB radio around 1968 due to him going blind so he could have something to do. somewhere around the early 80s he switched to Ham because of the way CB was going. he died in 2008 but me and my brother are still in CB today. where we live there is a group on channel 20 but other than that it is dead around here. they keep saying it is coming back but I just do not see it right now as of January 2023. but do remember the good ole days.
My brothers and I had HE 88 Walkie Talkies in 1965-68 that our Dad bought for us to have on our morning paper routes. Allied Realistic made great products. Thanks for the memories.
I bought a brand new Comstat 23 back in '69. I LOVED the smell of that radio when it got warmed up. After a while, that wore off. I sold it when the TELSAT 23 solid state came out later in that year with it's break through SINGLE IC chip! I STILL HAVE that radio in original box with manual and accessories along with the original sales slip. I had to special order it because the Lafayette store in my area did not have them in stock.
I have my amateur radio ticket now, but STILL keep a Uniden GRANT with Turner +3B on my station desk beside the Yaesu DX-3000-D and my brand new Kenwood TS-890 ((O:
PS. I got recordings of 11 meter recordings from 1969 on 5" reel to reel tapes as well. Fun times back then, lots of fighting too LOL.
Amazing. Thanks for posting this bit of history. I wonder if any of the participants are still alive?
This is awesome, thank you so much for posting this.
The kids at the end- would be in there 60s+ that’s be so cool if you could find them!
Those 100 watt linear amplifiers were illegal for CBers. So, they hid them, and called them "footwarmers".
I met some of my best friends in my entire life back in the CB days here in Albany New York, some great times some fantastic people! KNF-7851 Delta Range
Back when there was enough people on the radio to argue about anyone moving to another channel.
...long gone now.
Upper Darby, PA (suburb of West Philly). My wonderful parents bought me a CB a couple years after the time this poster's recording was made. It was a Comstat 19, 100' RG8 and a Super-Mag II. I changed my handle over the years back then: "UFO", "Brandywine", "BlueJay", maybe others I don't recall. I eventually bought a Hy-Gain 4-element and a rotor, and an HB-625A. I met so many people both on the air and in person. So many of their handles I've forgotten, I remember only a few: "Peaches", "Money Man", "Glen", "Johnny C", "Rascal" ... I've forgetten more of them as the years passed. I haven't been on the air since the late 1970s. There was a time when I'd thought about getting back in to it but then I realized, I should just let things be; my experiences during those years were best-ofs, there's no going back. In later years I got my ham ticket, but I had been working with electronics since I was 9-10 years old. These days, I cherish the memories.
You should come back to CB. Allot of 1970's Delaware county and South Philly CBers are back on every day now.
@@tomrusso1533 I moved from the area in '98.
@@chuckmuziani6262 my handle is cherry bomb. I was on in early 1974 through part of 1981. I remember speaking with Rascal, Johnny C, Barry (Richmond) lived in Drexel Hill. We lived in clifton heights on Oak Avenue. Our CB buddies Quasar, Ashcan, Starburst lived on Crestwood and Seven Oaks Drive.
@@tomrusso1533 Barry passed a while ago. He used to live on the main line. DO you remember MoneyMan, Peaches, Glen, and I forget the handle of the guy who had a Sigma 5/8 wave in Kirklyn/Havertown.
I would of love being born around the airwaves social media years. The glory days of cb radio.
Yeah that was great but you couldn't talk passed 5 miles if you hadn't a big linear.
@@toughcookie128 oh I know
Oh yeah, the good old days
Brings back alot of memories for sure.. the one the only Goldenhawk..
Even in the late 80's (89-90) to the mid 90's there was still a lot of activity in the far South Suburbs of Chicago. Multiple base stations, mobiles, etc. it was sooo much fun. When I first started in late 88 we used to have impromptu "Fox hunts" almost every other week. There always seemed to be "hate and discontent" on the air but NEVER heard of anything happening, it was a lot of talk...
Ch 14 on Xmas day you could here the new bunch of good buddies making their 1st contact on cb with their 100 mw. 1 channel walkie talkie.
Yes we had new Walkies every year in the mid to late 1960's and early 70's
I tried to get walkie talkies inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame but failed. Every kid had them then and kids today get the bubblepack FRS talkies.
1969 - some (in)famous Philadelphia CB'ers - Channel 2 & 20 (Fishtown & Kensington) - Sloppy Joe, Sharpshooter, Washing Machine Charlie, Gene, Phantom, Lightning, Two-Wheels, Four-Wheels, Ramrod, Dipper, Sparky, Professor Fruitcake, Dr. Riggy Mortis, Fairlane, Cobra, Redwood, Dixie Bell, Nomad. Pat Jacoby from Huntington Valley was never welcomed for long.
Who was Flower Mouth?
Washing Machine Charlie lol
How about Rare Bear?
Who was Ed? Or the woman with the big booming voice?
Wow, great audio history snapshot. Sounded like Detroit in the early 80s.
This is so great. Thanks for posting
So "CB" as we knew it post-1974-75 was ... pretty much exactly the same as it was before 1974-75. I have to say, the audio quality here is phenomenal. Thanks.
REMINDS ME OF BEING A KID IN THE 70S RIDING IN MY DADS SEMI OVER THE SUMMERS.
Man I love my Cb . I hve a Galaxy 98vhp in my big rig and I just bought a General Lee . Both radios are from Clays in San Antonio Texas. The General Lee is in my jeep
1969, the "Summer of Love"... But not here. 🤣
Thanks for the memories!
*Wow! that Comstat-25 brings back memories! I had the Comsat 19, then I "upgraded" to the Comsat 25 - BYW, a little trivia: Whether these models were called "Comsat" or "Comstat" depended on the year you bought it: I don't know why, by the spelling for these models went back and forth. Very annoying!*
*I still remember my call sign, issued 1960: KKD-0796! When I got the license, I got the radio, then I upgraded to the 25 when I got my ham license (the 25 could be rebanded to 10 meters really easily!).*
*Good Times!*
Who bothered to ever get a license?
Only total smucks gave c t he govt your actuial name or location.......
This is great....back in the good ole days
I love this.. Good stuff thank you
The TRC-10 is in my parents garage. I remember that being the first radio we had mounted in the car. My dad originally purchased channels 9 and 19. I think we ended having crystals for channel 9, 14, 10, and 19. We never did get 2 more to complete the rig as 23 channel had dropped in price by that time.
AH...Back in the Day ..1969......Great Video !!!
I see a lot of "the good ol' days" post here. Get a radio and get back on. Dust off the old radio and power up.
Great audio ... Police and Taxi's back then sounded amazing too, making the new digital modes of today sound horrible!
I’m not sure, but I think one of those radios is a cobra cam 88. They have a sound all their own, and I love the guy by the sound of that pop he’s using an old tram. Love that to Boggio there’s nothing like it
Good ear and I'm sure you're right.
Could also be a Regency Imperial as they had dual modulation tubes in them which made for a punchy audio.
@@dw8840 , I have an Imperial and three Olson Sidebander rigs. They tended to sound scratchy and the operator spent a lot of time explaining that it's supposed to sound like that!
I was really in to cb back in the 70's. There was allot of arguments and hate on the air, but I did make allot of friends too.
The your mom jokes were great!!
I've been into cb since 1979 here in the u.k seen it grow popular then die off over the years,wish cb had loads of breakers like there used to be!.
I really didn't get into cb radio until the early 1980s but was still like this reminds me of talking to people around Brooklyn Maryland.
Those old tube radios sounded very clear much better than todays crap
Free internet, but it was crazy! My handle was Casey, Idyllwild, and we had no other communication, "Off the grid". We talked all night, during the weekends. Lots of fun. 1978.
Fantastic modulacion!!!!fantastic time Cb radio👍
Ah those were the Days. I had a Realistic trc30a like they showed in this Video plus are local area we talked on Channel 8 Good Times. Now I live in the middle of no where waiting for this Solar minimum to end so I can turn my Radio and Linear on and Talk again .
That was actually a TRC-23. It's a mirror Image of the 30A. The 30A was actually a 1976 only radio, but they sold millions and I have two in my collection.
I was laughing so much on the knuckles exchange.
all this was a few years later in my area. We still used call signs and such, more like ham radio in the 60s. Became like this in the early 70s.
HAHAHA!! WOW! That's great! Breaker Breaker one-nine. I got the Miami version of that experience in the 80''s. Lots of Spanish and "power mics". Lot's of "stop stepping on me man!" A friend from New York helped me set up a mobile unit with a power supply as a "base station".
Wow, REALLY NICE audio for 1969, even by today's hotrod export Galaxy audio standards.
Do you recall any of the radios used by the two louder stations, the Loud Lady or the older "gentleman"? Tram? Browning? Lafayette? Johnson? Sonar? General? Pearce Simpson Gladiator? Other?
...after listening to the entire soireé, I'm now so nostalgic I could shed a tear. How I miss those days on the old Messenger 223, D104 gray base, Maverick 250, Penetrator 5/8 and an antenna or two on EVERY block!
Never a dull moment on any channel, 'til the internet happened.
Anyone remember Foxy Lady from Sacramento, CA? We were only a few miles apart.
The lady and her husband were using a Tram Titan II and a D-104. He was a plumber and she would dispatch his calls to him during the day. At night, it was their social circle. We kids got to join the conversations as long as we knew our place.
@@ArchivalPictures is that "Ed" you're talking about? The one that threatened to knock out Timberwolf's teeth at the Klonidine (sp)?
Any possiblity of other cb radio chat sessions that you may have to share with us? Sure brings back memories. I still remember my fcc callsign like it was yesterday. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I have more and will share them in a few months.
Pretty cool audio. Wish I had done some recordings years ago
Plate modulated vacuum tube radios and condenser microphones.
No "power mic" nonsense. Just good clean AM audio.
We used to go to the Clementon , NJ coffee brake.
So soothing
..I heard a mention of "Parzik"......I had a teacher named Parzik @ Haverford Jr. High in 1969 .....Have not heard that name in years...a coincidence ?!!
Back when the FCC closely monitored the 27MHz and would visit your home if you violated the rules, and every new CB Radio came with an application for an FCC license. I sure miss those days, it was fun.
I have to confess , I used to Golden screw driver all my radios . I owned just about every tube cb there is . they always received flowers !
52 years ago at this writing - sad to think most, or all of these people are now dead - the recording is so clear it might have been made last week
The sound quality of AM is awesome.. 1980s we used it illegally in the UK.. Spent years fighting for AM whilst struggling on our shitty FM 27/81..now we have legal AM SSB we don't use it.. Spend day after day on 19 UK FM.. Throwing 200watts at each other... Boring... Keep AM cb alive
Kinda reminds me of the bots in modern day YT chat boxes.
Very cool video... Thanks.
Lots of loud radios back then and all tube!!!!!!
Sorry, i know this was posted 5 years ago but, This is exactly why i sped right past cb and got into ham radio. interesting to see though that guys were the same back 50 plus years ago as they are now. I have three c.bs, i just dont use them . Great historical audio though, i listened to the whole thing.
Some of those on 75 meters would put this to shame
What radio and recorder did you use for this? It's amazing that even recorded audio sounded much better on these older tube type AM radios then solid states today.
It was recorded on my Wollensak reel to reel recorder directly from the tape-out jack of a Comstat 23, when I was just a kid. It's surprising how good that old equipment was.
Anyone who thinks radios have gotten better in the last 48 years doesn't know much about radios.
1969 was the golden era of vacuum tube CBs and great audio and it was before the "Good Buddy" phase of the hobby ruined it after around 1975.
23 channels were just fine, thanks (hell some of us only had 5 channels) and we didn't need any scan functions or roger beeps or weather channels or echo microphones or power mics....etc.....
Amazing fidelity. On Soundcloud, Evan Doorbell has an incredible archival and narration of the old Bell phone system, using his reel to reel machines. i was fiddling with Compact Cassette in the 80s. Definitely diminished fidelity from the reel tapes.
ArchivePix This is hands down my favorite CB radio related TH-cam clip. Even though I was in NY (BK) and didn't operate a CB radio until around 74 the qso's were very similar. Your memories are relatable. The fact that these people were recorded in PA and NJ doesn't matter. It's a time capsule and I'm so sorry I didn't keep the recordings I made of the old channel 15 crew that operated in Bensonhurst, Coney island, bay ridge, Dyker hights and Borough Park. thanks for having the foresight to save these recordings for prosperity. Their probably more important than most realize. Thanks again.
@@zooyawk4526 Of course you knew Artie Windjammer i'm sure
Come on back, truckers, and talk to Teddy Bear.
OMG YES .. MY DAYS .. I REMEMBER SO WELL .. OHIO was Little NICER on Radio Then BIG CITY of PHILLY , PA ... IT WAS SO MUCH FUN .. Here In SW OHIO In The Early 1970's ... Mid 70's .. And Late 70's .... EACH NIGHT .. DAD and Me ( Me At Times ) Talking On The CB RADIO ... FUN .. FUN ..
The good 'ol days when we could speak our mind without big tech censorship.
I was a kid in NJ and this was our social media.
Yep, Facebook wasn't going to throw a dead carrier on your conversation and Twitter wasn't going to play music on you.
@@spaceflight1019 😂😂🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼
#12 Elmira New York waving a hand!!!
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Classic CB Rambo Showdown..Awesome
This is 1 of the best radio today
I love the 1969 Your Mom jokes at the end.
CB radio stations sounded so good back then, before all the echo, reverbs, supermods, class C amps and other nonsense the few people that still get on it use. I started on it when I was 11 in 1987. It was still very active and we had the same feuding that got out of hand a few times. I got back in it in 2015 and got out of it several months ago. It was a total joke with hardly anyone out there. Most of these people on this recording are probably dead now.
I remember in 2008 it was dying then.
I wonder if they had themselves a convoy?
I missed out on this fun. I’m told it was quiet the thing in its day. Now all we do is give a signal report and move on - sad ham.