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What year and why did you get into the Radio Hobby?

It was around 1974, at the age of 13, that I got involved in the world of Citizen Band radio. It started with trading for a used Realistic TRC-24, a 23-channel crystal radio. I purchased a mobile base load coil antenna from the local Radio Shack and installed the radio and antenna in my Dad's truck for Father's Day. Later my Dad wanted me to "add channels" to his radio. I told him I did not know anything about that. Dad Just said, "That OK, I've been talking with one of our engineer at work and he's going to teach you."
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That led to Dad bring home a dozen brand new SBE Formula D radios for me to "expand." Those were my first Phase-Locked Loop frequency synthesizer mods. Looking back, I see that I owed my career to my Dad and an old CB radio.
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It was the late 70's must have been about 7-8 years old, my Dad got a Lafayette Telsat 924 23 channel base station with ground plane on the chimney. When my Dad and Mom went out I was not supposed to talk on it but I always convinced the babysitter to let me. Someone local always busted me out to my Dad, LOL. That was always a guaranteed swat on the backside but it was worth it!!! Got my Dads Telsat after the divorce when I was 12, we sold that house and moved and left the antenna, took me about a year to save up for a Radio Shack ground plane. Been hooked ever since. About 10 years ago I got my ticket and am extra class now. Still have a CB hooked up and monitor 37 LSB daily.
 
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1976 my Dad bought a 23ch JC Penny Pinto, back when everyone had at least one CB radio. I played around with it when I was a kid. Then in 1990 I dug that little Pinto out of my dad's closet and stuck it in my little 1989 Ford Ranger. Been playing with radios off and on ever since then. I still have that 23 ch Pinto but I misplaced the original microphone to it somewhere never have found it, but it still works with a Cobra mic.
 
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