TBT IX - THE WKRP "TURKEY DROP"

HAPPY

THANKSGIVING!

 

VAMPIRES IN BOSTON? IN 1896? TBT [Throw Back Thursday]

 

 

 A STORY CLOSER TO THE HEART OF HALLOWEEN

 

 

 

 

I took a week off to get my head straight over the events of last month, so I missed last weeks "THROW BACK THURSDAY". I thought I could take one week away from radio and have something more in line with Halloween, so I dug up this gem from 1896 - Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

73

WOODY

 

 

SWR (i.e. - where does that lost power go?)

 

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN

Yep, Halloween is right around the corner so it's time to change my Blog pic to something more seasonal. The video I have posted below is another fine (albeit short) example of what Waters & Stanton's Peter Waters, creates each week (usually posted on Friday). 

It's a short one about SWR (or as some call it "Swerr"), followed by 2 longer videos, one by K0LWC and the other by the "Wizard of Og" - KE0OG, Dave Casler, about using the SWR meter on your ICOM IC-7300.

 

Thanks so much for taking a little time out of your day to visit this Blog, and special thanks to those who sent condolence emails about my Dad's passing. Shortly after posting that page I brought it back to Draft status until a setup a permanent link, however, this page I've created will slowly grow as more photos are found, and more memories re-surface.

73

WOODY

 

TBT [ThrowBack Thursday] VI

 

 

 1967

 

 

 

 

 

 CB IN 1967 -  

"Citizens Band radio, a boon and a headache"

 

 

 

 

 

 73

WOODY

 

 

 

 

[TBT] ThrowBack Thursday - V

 

 

 

 

 

 1977

 

 

 

 

I'M MIXING IT UP WITH THESE NEWSPAPER ITEMS FROM '77, STARTING WITH ANN LANDERS -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

73 'til next Thursday -

WOODY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNSPOT CYCLE 25, AND WHY IT MIGHT BE A BIG ONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There have been quite a few articles and videos regarding Solar Cycle 25, and how big or small it may turn out to be. This is the latest one I've found (Sept 17th), so if you have an hour to kill take a gander of what they have to say. 

 

 

 

73

WOODY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY FUNNY [WEEKLY RADIO HUMOR]

 

YOUR WEEKLY CHUCKLE

HAM

CB

HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY!

WATERS & STANTON - A NICE PLACE TO VISIT

 

 

 SOME GOOD ADVICE

 

 

 

 

 I subscribe and watch videos from Peter Waters of Waters & Stanton every week. His laid back approach to the subject at hand is greatly admired. 

The first video is about getting into ham radio while spending the least amount you can afford, and the second one is titled: CB vs Ham Radio, a short video where Peter talks about the two services. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did (for what it's worth, I wish a US vendor would do something like this as well)

 

 

 

 

VIDEO 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

73

WOODY

 

 

 

TBT [ThrowBack Thursday] IV

 

 ANOTHER THROWBACK

ANOTHER

LOOK AT THE PAST

 

 

 When the CB radio fad was most popular, many smaller newspapers had their own CB column, or at the least, they used columns from some of our larger cities to allow keep their subscribers 'in the loop', with current news about this new phenomenon. For example, the column 'CB Chatter' by Mike Wendland could be found in more than one newspaper across the nation.

The Saturday or Sunday editions of the news were usually geared towards gardening, sports, and occasionally CB radio. I've linked a page from a Sunday leisure section in 1976 which can be enlarged enough for you to read and enjoy -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1976

 

 

 

1976 - The State Sun, South Carolina

 

1976 - The State Sun, South Carolina

 

 

 

1977

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

73,

(until next Thursday)

WOODY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TBT [ThrowBack Thursday] III

 

 THROWBACK THURSDAY

SEPTEMBER 08, 2021

 

This weeks TBT is an advertisement from May 06, 1976 in the Ithaca Journal. The store is "Action Audio", which was also a Lafayette Radio Electronics affiliate.

23 channel CB radios had yet to become discounted, as the pricing indicates.

 

 

 73

WOODY

 

 

TBT [ThrowBack Thursday] II

 

THROWBACK THURSDAY II

This weeks TBT image is a Radio Shack ad from December 1976 titled: "Give-a-CB" which showed Radio Shack's markdown as an attempt to move 23ch. radios out of their warehouse before the new 40ch. transceivers arrived.

I actually bought the TRC-47 am/ssb radio the year before for a sale price of $209.95 - which was a good price for a sideband rig that year. I didn't like it at all. Transmit audio was slightly below average, and while it had most of the typical controls (volume, squelch, RF gain, clarifier, and mode selection), it lacked a meter. Try giving a signal report without one. I traded this towards my purchase of a new E.F. Johnson Viking 352 in January of '76.

$159.95 was $50 less than their best sale price, but nowhere near what it would be selling for, only a few months later - $50

 

REALISTIC TRC-47 AM/SSB MOBILE

73

WOODY

EARTH FACING CME FROM THE SUN 08-28-2021

 

 EXCELLENT VIDEO (AND NEWS) OF ERUPTIONS

 

 

CB RADIO IN 1977

 

 

 HISTORIC FILMS:

 CB RADIO - 1977

 

 

 

I think I had this in a blog post a year or two ago, but it was squished in-between a bunch of other embedded YT videos.  It's a hoot to watch, and deserves an individual post of it's own.

 

 

Throwback Thursday - Midland AM/SSB Clearance (1974)

 

 

THROWBACK 

THURSDAY

 

 

 

 

 CB radios with Sideband (SSB) were expensive back in the early 70's, with base stations commanding a price well over $400, so it was unusual to see this ad in the January '74 issue of CB Magazine.

 73

WOODY

 

 

 

 

 

RANDOM WESNESDAY: CB STATISTICS IN THE 70'S

 

LAST WEDNESDAY OF AUGUST

Citizens Band radio was a wild ride in the 70's. For this month's "Random Wednesday" I've dug up some old newspaper articles from the 1975-1978 period (click on image to enlarge).

73

WOODY