CB Radio Collection

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Citizen Band Radio Collection

11 meter, CB, or as the hams call it "Chicken Band" even though most hams started

out as CBers and a lot still operate there.

This page was last updated: March 29, 2013

Johnson Messenger 123A

This was my first mobile radio in my first car a 1956 Chevy Belair.

Cobra Cam 88

A Cam 88 like this was my first base station radio.

I got it for Xmas when I was a Junior in high school.

This is not the same radio.

USL Radio Phone

This is a early 5 channel transmit, tunable receive

with the push to talk button mounted on the front panel.

Note, it's a Superhetrodyne.

General Radiophone MC-5

A really well built set, very heavy. Note that the transmit and receive crystals are set separately.

Courier mobile

I don't know the model number of this radio..

Royce 40 ch. SSB/AM mobile

This radio was given to me by an old guy in Charlotte, he said it was dead and maybe I cold use it for parts.

All that was wrong was the protection diode was shot,

someone likely tried to hook up 12 volts backwards.

Installed a new diode and it worked great.

Motorola MOCAT

I just got this one a year or so ago, I remember when

they first came out, I thought it was a really cool looking radio.

Johnson Messenger 1 "Whiteface"

A Whiteface like this one was the first real CB radio I ever saw. It belonged to my surgate grandfather. He had one in their living room next to his chair and one in his 1960 Cadillac Sedan deville.

Johnson also made a 10 meter version of this radio.

HeathKit CB-1

Had a single crystal socket, on the chassis inside the cabinet. A lot of them, like this one were modified to have a crystal socket on the front panel.

HeathKit Lunchbox series radios

Besides the CB-1 HeathKit made amateur (Ham)

radios. Here are the other models,

one for the 2 meter band was called a 2er.

for the 6 meter band was a 6er

the 10er was for the 10 meter band.

These are all AM and they all work, several of us used to get on 2 meter AM, or 6 meter AM, it was fun.

The equipment below the Lunchboxes are pieces of my

Clough-Brengle test equipment collection.

If you'll "click" on the photo it's take you to

my Clough-Brengle web page.

Some of the CB collection is on the top shelf on this wall in my office/hamshack.

The second shelf down holds my Golden Eagle Kark IV. Sitting on top of the Eagle you'll see a dark red wooden number that says 9111.

It was one of my sideband calls, it was issued by the Southeastern club the full numbers were SE-9111, one of my best friends back then, Ronnie Whilden who made me the numbers in his woodworking shop.

On the next shelf down is my Sonar FS-3023,

Clegg 22er FM, a tube type 2 meter FM rig.

The Yellow boxes are Gonset Communicator IIIs,

one 2 meter and one 6 meter.

Next to the right is a Hammarlund BC-779A VLF receiver, covered 100zhx - 22 mhz.

And you can just see the left edge of a Hammarlund

HQ-129X with the Hammarlund speaker on top.

If you'd like to know a little more about my early history

with CB radios, how I got started in the hobby that lead

to the rest og my life, "click" on the gray button below.