Thanks Assaf. It was fun thumbing through the February 1979 issue. At around that time (well, a few years earlier) I was a teenager and had a Realistic TRC 440 CB base station with a vertical antenna on the roof with ground plane that my dad helped me put up. It was a lot of fun and laid the foundation for my later interest in amateur radio. Back then I did a lot of SWL as well, mostly via unwanted tube radios from neighbours. 73, Peter, VE3ZXT
assaf shool wrote:
I found a smaller but interesting stash of old CB radio magazines online (S9 Magazine), these ones are dated from the 60's to the 70's. I was looking at a 1979 issue when CB was at its zenith and it was quite interesting. First thing, the magazine is completely politically incorrect by today's standards. I thought it was very amusing. The other thing I noticed is that while today's radio magazines cherish the FCC like it was been run by Jesus Christ himself, this magazine completely derides the existence of the FCC, who have the audacity to set power and band limits on CB radios, with every other page saying some not very flattering things about FCC personnel and laws.There is also lots of stuff about evading FCC agents for back when the FCC could give a hoot about CB, and if you read between the lines, I don't believe the authors ran just 4W.Plus there are some rather "unique" theories on propagation as well... Some are really unique..http://www.cbradiomagazine.com/S9%20CB%20Magazine/S9%20CB%20RADIO%20MAGAZINE%20INDEX.htm Assaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------Get a great deal on Windows 7 and see how it works the way you want. Check out the offers on Windows 7now. <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691812>
