Those and the CPI rigs were the best you could get in the day.
Still have your CPI? I seem to recall you posting a pic of it once.
Those and the CPI rigs were the best you could get in the day.
my first radio was a stoner pro 40
another radio i still had
If I recall correctly, my first radio was a Megatone 23 channel mobile. 73's
David
My first cb back in the summer of 78 was a president AR7 (40 ch fcc AM), cracking little radio which i bought second hand with a dv27 and free biscuit tin ground plane for 30 pounds,about 45 dollars at the time.
was a great little entrance radio and at the time cb here was just starting to get very popular,this was 3 years prior to legalisation where fm radios became the norm,the only thing that limited it was the antenna and lack of ssb,by early 1980 i had bought a cobra 148 gtl dx mk2 and the whole world opened up to me.
The 148 gtl dx was at the time the radio to have in my city (ironically 3 decades later it still is the radio to have) ,by this time there was thousands of breakers running massive antennas and high power and you needed a radio with good adjacent channel rejection/selectivity as bleedover was a nightmare if you didn't have a good radio due to the very close proximity of a number of other stations both legal and illegal.
once i added a dipole,then starduster and avanti sigma 4 and then finally a mighty magnum 3 and a 3 element beam below it,which i worked with till i got busted in 83, even s.america couldn't avoid me,lol.
the world truly was my oyster.was the first time in my life i realised politics,religion,culture,nationality were all man made barriers that could easily be overcome by radio as it respected no human divides,the way it should be.
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