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09-20-2018, 10:16am | #1 | ||||||
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Why no CB section?
They were a factory option back in the day.
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MY CB had a little more 'punch' than normal......nuff said.....
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C4/C8
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I had about 10 CBs over a period from about 1972 till 85 when I bought that Vette used. My Johnson 3 -23a was great, some asshole took it right out of my truck in my driveway and I lived in what was considered a good neighborhood. |
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Our ‘79 has the CB option 😎
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The factory CB combo car radios were 2 piece; the CB was a seperate chassis... controlled by the car radio front panel.
Actually, the CB was good; but the poor performance had to do with the antenna GM used. Most were the motorized (automatic) antennas. They were AM/FM antennas that were pranged into working at CB freqs... but not very well. The best "mod" one could do with one of these units was to use a seperate antenna for CB. I remember a lot of cars coming into the shop back then... where we did this (add seperate CB antenna). |
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They put on 2 different antennas (both motorized) but it did not help much. At that time I did not know that a standalone antenna might have helped out. Compared to the radios I had in the past, the one in my Vette was just useless. That Johnson 3 23A was the best I had followed up by a Bowman <SP> side band that was well worked over by a long time Ham operator that built his own equipment. |
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Speaking/typing about antennas on vettes, my '72 had the antenna laid down across the back, under the plastic, just a few inches in front of the fuel tank, instead of it's OEM mount on the fender/body.....guess what?? it worked fine...never an issue....but all that crap was torn out long ago, no tunes in my car.....custom gauges....
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Now a daze it's all cphones......but I received one of the very first cphone calls ever made.....
a buddy from HS daze was heavy into ham radio, and a fellow TV shop head tech/foreman/manager like I was, but for another shop..... we shared the gun hobby, but he went for ham radio, I went for stereo/sound gear..... he got hold of old MOTRAC cab/cop radio transceiver from the trunk of the old sedans back when, and modified it to 2 meter ham radio freq band.... In Tyson's corner Va. was a nice tall hillside on some then farm land and the then new Ch 20 UHF station built a YEUGGGGE tower that radiated for many a city around DC......and so the ham radio guys rented some space on the tower.....and put in a few antennas.....and repeaters, tied to phone lines..... so my buddy put a 2100 push button desk set in his Mustang, and hooked it to the Motrac ......and so called me from his car doing some 60+ mph on the DC beltway.....back when you could DO 60 on the road..... |
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