Old Enough To Remember?

^^My old man called CB the "Children's Band" radio (and that looks so familar I'm sure we had that exact model somewhere along the way.) He was a pilot and boater so it was whatever radio pilots used and the Marine VHF as "serious" comms. We once needed to contact my mom while fishing out on Lake Michigan and actually placed a ship-to-shore call. I don't recall the reason, but it seemed fairly serious and I thought really impressive to call mom on the radio while out on a huge body of water.
 
ST Steven said:
I was knee deep in side band
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Nice, never got to that stage.
But I have an old Murphy 104 baffleboard wireless from 1946.
Many moons ago the family moved to Germany along with all the kit and caboodle. Among this was dad´s, even back in the 70ies, antique Murphy 104 Baffleboard wireless. Growing up I had that radio in my room and it proved it´s self a link to the English speaking world. Many nights listening to Radio Luxemburg on shortwave and on rare occasions Radio Caroline and other “pirate” radio stations.
Then there was the slow turn of the dial to tune into far away stations on short wave, the 49 meter band was popular. It made me dream of strange places where I one day may visit. I would note where the foreign language stations were on the dial and when the hour was full I would tune in and hope to get a station telling where it was. Then there were the numbers stations, every night I would listen half afraid that I may be doing something wrong and expecting a knock on my door in the middle of the night.
I love my old wireless.

Ancient picture of Slammer and the old wireless and the old wireless today.
 

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NVDucati said:
I've never known if was fact or fiction that a CB radio, with the power limiter removed, could shut off a VW Jetta and certain models of Caddies.
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Fiction, the Italians ruined CB for the rest of Europe by not having any power limiter and when they blasted off CB was disrupted all over the continent. All you could hear was Italien and the occasional CBler cursing everything Europe would have had VW‘s conking out all day long.
 
Shuey said:
Anybody else remember . . . jumping on one of these to make the bell ring?
I do. One of my feet wouldn't do it, but two together . . . ding ding
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Some stations over here actually had those too... only a few though... ;)
 
speaking of old gas station stuff, I don't think I have a picture of it, but back in the '90s when I was traveling around Italy I came across a pressure gauge for tires at a gas station. It was a mercury manometer, probably about a meter tall and with a column of mercury about the diameter of your finger. I don't know what era that came from, but its the only one I've ever seen in my life.
 
dwalby said:
speaking of old gas station stuff, I don't think I have a picture of it, but back in the '90s when I was traveling around Italy I came across a pressure gauge for tires at a gas station. It was a mercury manometer, probably about a meter tall and with a column of mercury about the diameter of your finger. I don't know what era that came from, but its the only one I've ever seen in my life.
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I've seen one of those old gauges in British Columbia years ago.
 
Yep, I remember using a ship to shore connection while on a houseboat trip in a remote section of Lake Powell. And we listened in to another gentleman using the same method every day to manage his large construction company while he was on vacation.
It worked great but definitely no privacy!
 
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