An Old Hobby

[Swamp Critter]

Hey guys, this has pretty much nothing to do with hunting or fishing, but I thought I'd throw it out here and see how many responses it gets. Before the internet and cell phones, there was CB radio! Every once in a long while, I dust off my old (I mean it. OLD! 23 channel!) base station radio and fire it up. It's so old, I have to crank it with a handle like an old Ford Model T! LOL! Anyway, I dusted it off today and sure enough it still works like a champ. Back in "the day", about 20 years ago, I used to talk with several guys regularly near where I lived, and sometimes talk "skip" several hundred or even over 1000 miles away when conditions were just right. I never had an amp for my base radio, but sometimes I'd get way out there once in a while. The old radio's nothing special, but I have a good desk type powered microphone that sounds crystal clear, and a good base antenna roughly about 48 feet up in the air on an old TV antenna pole. So even without an amp it sounds like a "big" radio, at least within about 15 miles or so. After a while the chatter gets sort of annoying and you get some goofballs out there, but for a while it's fun to play around with. Sort of like a trip back in time to the days of Convoy, Smokey and the Bandit, and The Dukes of Hazzard. I guess I'm showing my age. I was a kid back then, but I remember CB's were big time in those days. I know they've still got a following now, although not nearly as many people. Any other old CB'ers out there? I'm not old, but well you know what I mean. "10-4" and "catch ya on the flip-flop." Going "10-7" now. Bye Bye!