RW> TW> I was an early CB'er also. They issued CB call signs in those days   
   RW> TW> and mine was KNA 5683.   
      
   RW>Californians were first issued 11W calls as I recall. Mine was 18W4361...4   
   RW>years later, I got KLK 1032 and when I moved to Seattle in 1966, I got my   
   RW>favorite call; KPD 2428...I never bothered to renew it because it was so   
   RW>easy to say and it stood out among all those CA issued calls. There was a   
   RW>guy on Point Loma who still had an 11W call when I moved out to CA...he   
   RW>and I ran Golden Eagles and those radios really talked...   
      
   I got mine in hte middle 60's here in California. I was stationed at the   
   Mare Island Naval Shipyard at the time.   
   I stil have a Squires - Sanders 23'er CB transceiver.   
   After sitting for so long unused the channel change switch will not turn   
   anymore.   
      
   RW> TW> Also on building antennas I made my first CB antenna out of RG-58   
   RW> TW> coax. I removed 9 feet of the jacket on one end and folded the shield   
   RW> TW> back over the lower half of the end of the coax and hung it up as a   
   RW> TW> vertical antenna. Worked pretty good.   
      
   RW>But it wasn't a 50ohm antenna. The 'ground plane' (your folded shield) had   
   RW>to be at 45 deg from vertical to do that.   
      
   O yes it was. That type of antenna is known as a "Sleeve" Antenna and   
   it in effect was a 1/2 wavelength Vertical Dipole.   
      
   RW> TW>  For a while I also had a 1/4 wave fiberglass whip on the car but   
   RW> TW> soon replaced it with a shorter loaded one as I had to be carefull   
   RW> TW> driving under the canaopy of gas stations   
      
   RW>You must have been driving a tank. I had 108" stainless whips on my cars,   
   RW>though I didn't have any tanks in the stable. The neat part about those is   
   RW>that you can keep the antenna folded over and held by a plastic clip to   
   RW>the rain gutter and continue to talk. When you got a tail-gater behind   
   RW>you, releasing the whip would slam it on his hood and make him back off.   
   RW>8^) I loved that part.   
      
   I had it mounted on a 1963 Pontiac Tempest Convertable.   
   It was a Fiberglass whip antenna so was not as easy to fold over   
   as the stainless whips   
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