Hi again guys,
KI4ENS,
Verry sorry to hear about your wife. I knew there would some folks wondering why I wanted to find out my dad's old C.B. call. I guess it was morew for nostalgia reasons than anything, since my dad never really did show any interest in becoming a ham operator. I know that my dad did have a callsign issued to him at one time, because I remember him telling me about it. Whether or not he or anyone else that was required to give their callsign on the Citizen's Band ever did so on a regular basis is open for speculation. I clearly remember some of the golden days of C.B. though. I was born in 1974, and I remember when people actually used C.B.'s just like they would use cell phones today to stay in touch and get help or information on the road. I remember my dad had something like an old 23 channel Johnson Messenger in his company car when I was growing up in Somerset, Kentucky. I guess growing up around the C.B. was what helped spark my love of radio. I enjoyed C.B. when I was younger, and I later get into SWLing and then got my ham license when I was a senior in high school. I remember my dad buying my two brothers and me some Midland 3-channel walkie-talkies when we I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. I have a twin brother who is also a ham operator today as well. When we were in kindergarten, we would stay at the home of a preacher and his wife after school let out around 12:00 until my mom got off work and picked us up. The preacher was a constible or something, and he had a C.B. in his car, as well as an old Bearcat scanner that he would listen to to monitor police calls. It is memories like this that helped to spark my love of scanners and ham radio today. Sorry for the long article, just thought I share why I wanted to find my dad's old call.
73,
Mike KU4UV