Nice CB radio card

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, October 10, 2007 4:41 PM | permalink

Big Happy Funhouse posted this photo of Father Rolaids and Mother Tums' CB Radio card. They were the life of Channel 20 on Mondays in North Bend, Oregon. Link

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#1 posted by john weeks , October 10, 2007 5:29 PM

I'm pretty sure that "mon" meant they monitored channel 20, not mondays.

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#2 posted by Zyklon

, October 10, 2007 5:33 PM

Either way, they didn't breed them very beautifully back then, eh?

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#3 posted by DragonPhyre , October 10, 2007 7:03 PM

You could say they have a face for radio...

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#4 posted by Anaxaforminges , October 10, 2007 7:38 PM

Golly! They sound like a hoot!

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#5 posted by KB6NU

, October 10, 2007 8:09 PM

This item made me sick to my stomach. :)

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#6 posted by ernie

, October 10, 2007 11:48 PM

I wonder what they look like under those smocks.

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#7 posted by Randy

, October 11, 2007 5:56 AM

I haven't seen one of these in years, but I do have one that my grandparents made - which included all their grandchildren. And I went with them to more than one CB Radio potluck meeting - it must have been in the early 70s.

Think of CB as the internet of 40 years ago. It was a way for the ordinary joe, for as little as $50 to connect up with a little bubble of community - either fixed in your home, or mobile in your vehicle.

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#8 posted by Robert , October 11, 2007 7:03 AM

They kinda look like pharmacists. Maybe that's why they named themselves after antacids.

Funny, though, using dashes as spacers. A limitation of 70s printing technology?

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#9 posted by Permanganate

, October 11, 2007 8:20 AM

It seems to be missing the the call letters, so it's probably not an official SQL card.

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#10 posted by Maggie Leber , October 11, 2007 9:40 AM

SQL is a query language.

QSL is the telegraphic code for "message acknowleged".

And this says it's a "eyeball card"; the slang "eyeball QSO"; "QSO" being the code for a contact...an "eyeball" for short. Today we'd say "a GTG IRL".

These cards were exchanged when folks be off-the-air like a calling card. It's possible these folks callsigns were on the other side. It's also possible they were unlicenced and had no callsigns at all.

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#11 posted by goodbeershow

, October 11, 2007 1:36 PM

I am 44. I remember a cb-boom in our area during the mid 70s. Everyone in our neighborhood had a mobile and a base unit. The biggest sell was the fact that long distance telephone calls were expensive. Big Brother Indiana Bell usually had local calls as being inside one county. If you lived adjacent to other counties it would be long distance even though you can throw a rock and about hit where you are calling. CBs sorta solved this. People also used to have channel 19 (truckers channel) on when you drove the interstates. Sort of an ancient radar detector. If a police came on the freeway, everybody knew it for miles and slowed down. I did not get into the hobby.

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