As a kid, I remember
getting a CB back during the glory days of CB radio. It was a 24 channel
Realistic Navaho model that I bought brand new at Radio Shack… my Dad helped me
install the antenna outside and I was ‘ON THE AIR’…this was LONG before anybody
had heard of cellphones…All my friends got CB’s too, and we spent many an hour and
late into the night talking about nothing on them for a few months… You met
some nice people and you ran into some nasty ones just like you do in life… One
of my neighbors had one that interfered with TV reception because his signal
was so strong. Needless to say, the neighbors confronted him about it pretty
quick… Later, I got a mobile antenna so I could use it in my car, although I
think I put it in there just a couple of times... My friends later upgraded to
a 40 channel CB, but I stuck with my original… I even wrote an article about
CB’s that got put in the newspaper…as for me, I never heard too many of those
supposed trucker conversations like the ones heard in the old song ‘Convoy’
even though I lived just a few blocks from one of the big interstates… well
anyway, after a while all the CB excitement died down for the most part. It was
a fad that came and went for most folks… I don’t even know what happened to the
one I owned. I suppose it wound up in a garage sale or just got thrown out… a
lot of things in life are like that...there the cat’s pajamas for a while, and
then we lose interest and they get discarded… It was a fine looking radio if I
say so myself. I did find a picture of the same model I had though. Sure brings
back memories…
