Greetings TOM!   
      
    EV> RW>>> So, you're not so old afterall. I was going on 19 when the FCC   
    EV> RW>>> opened up 11mtrs to CB radio. One of the first 5 in town to   
    EV> RW>>> have a CB license.   
      
    TW> I was an early CB'er also. They issued CB call signs in those days   
    TW> and mine was KNA 5683.   
      
   Californians were first issued 11W calls as I recall. Mine was 18W4361...4   
   years later, I got KLK 1032 and when I moved to Seattle in 1966, I got my   
   favorite call; KPD 2428...I never bothered to renew it because it was so   
   easy to say and it stood out among all those CA issued calls. There was a   
   guy on Point Loma who still had an 11W call when I moved out to CA...he   
   and I ran Golden Eagles and those radios really talked...   
      
    TW> Also on building antennas I made my first CB antenna out of RG-58   
    TW> coax. I removed 9 feet of the jacket on one end and folded the shield   
    TW> back over the lower half of the end of the coax and hung it up as a   
    TW> vertical antenna. Worked pretty good.   
      
   But it wasn't a 50ohm antenna. The 'ground plane' (your folded shield) had   
   to be at 45 deg from vertical to do that.   
      
    TW>  For a while I also had a 1/4 wave fiberglass whip on the car but   
    TW> soon replaced it with a shorter loaded one as I had to be carefull   
    TW> driving under the canaopy of gas stations   
      
   You must have been driving a tank. I had 108" stainless whips on my cars,   
   though I didn't have any tanks in the stable. The neat part about those is   
   that you can keep the antenna folded over and held by a plastic clip to   
   the rain gutter and continue to talk. When you got a tail-gater behind   
   you, releasing the whip would slam it on his hood and make him back off.   
   8^) I loved that part.   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
      
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