CB Radio Base Stations | OBX Connection Message Board (2024)

Date Posted: 11/10/2013 6:40 PM

Date Posted: 11/10/2013 6:59 PM

I think it will be a good idea for Outer Banks homes to have CB Base Stations! This way can make friends with other vacationers and residences. During the early night fall turn on the CB Base Station and talk away to other local people. Up and down the Outer Banks. Each beach area home can have a call handle.

Bob, didn't you have that idea before? Like in the 1970's, right before the movie Convoy? Citizen Band Radios were also predominate back when you gave Burt Reynolds the idea for his Smokey and the Bandit movie.

Date Posted: 11/10/2013 7:02 PM

I think it will be a good idea for Outer Banks homes to have CB Base Stations! This way can make friends with other vacationers and residences. During the early night fall turn on the CB Base Station and talk away to other local people. Up and down the Outer Banks. Each beach area home can have a call handle.

Bob, didn't you have that idea before? Like in the 1970's, right before the movie Convoy? Citizen Band Radios were also predominate back when you gave Burt Reynolds the idea for his Smokey and the Bandit movie.

Date Posted: 11/10/2013 7:34 PM

I think it will be a good idea for Outer Banks homes to have CB Base Stations! This way can make friends with other vacationers and residences. During the early night fall turn on the CB Base Station and talk away to other local people. Up and down the Outer Banks. Each beach area home can have a call handle.

Bob, didn't you have that idea before? Like in the 1970's, right before the movie Convoy? Citizen Band Radios were also predominate back when you gave Burt Reynolds the idea for his Smokey and the Bandit movie.

Bob Blockus=C W McCall...
...that's a big 10-4 good buddy.

Bob, can you give me a 10-86............
I can't ascertain Bob's 10-20..............
He must be away from his set taking a 10-200.

Date Posted: 11/10/2013 8:27 PM

Date Posted: 11/11/2013 11:07 AM

But cells took over because of the limited range of the CB. Mine was tuned by a truck stop CB shack and I could fairly easily talk from North side of Oregon Inlet to about ramp 27 if I pointed the antenna pattern down the beach.

I still have a tuned one but it's only used in traveling, primarily the interstates and tunnels around Hampton Roads.

Date Posted: 11/11/2013 11:21 AM

Back in BC (Before Cells) we used CB all the time to contact other fishermen. Some tackle shops had base stations. Fishin' Hole in Salvo was on Ch 23, as in Ramp 23.

But cells took over because of the limited range of the CB. Mine was tuned by a truck stop CB shack and I could fairly easily talk from North side of Oregon Inlet to about ramp 27 if I pointed the antenna pattern down the beach.

I still have a tuned one but it's only used in traveling, primarily the interstates and tunnels around Hampton Roads.

Date Posted: 12/5/2013 4:57 PM

Date Posted: 12/5/2013 5:32 PM

Date Posted: 12/5/2013 5:59 PM

We can make you the Outer Banks Dispatcher Bob

Suggestions?

Date Posted: 12/6/2013 4:47 PM

Ya'll better not be runnin' no leenyurs.

Golly gee! That's funny!!!! Had to laugh out loud.

Date Posted: 12/6/2013 5:33 PM

Ya'll better not be runnin' no leenyurs.

Golly gee! That's funny!!!! Had to laugh out loud.

Thanks. I thought it had gone over everyone's heads... or maybe under!

Date Posted: 12/6/2013 6:59 PM

We can make you the Outer Banks Dispatcher Bob

My CB Name back in Upper Arlington, Ohio was White Duck. We can all get together and help each one out installing the big cb antenna on the beach houses roofs. I would stay around outer banks three months out of the year.

Date Posted: 12/6/2013 7:37 PM

What you need to do is start a Group on Facebook called Bob Blocus' Big Bad Banks Blog and invite us to join and swap posts and stay up late telling manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!

Date Posted: 12/7/2013 4:58 AM

We can make you the Outer Banks Dispatcher Bob

He needs a shorter "handle"

Suggestions?

How about "Ray".

Date Posted: 12/7/2013 9:55 AM

Date Posted: 12/7/2013 3:03 PM

So sayeth the sage Donkey. Nice quote, Robschonk!

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 2:14 PM

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 2:33 PM

I can remember driving up Hatteras island with a tuned up mobile and K40 on SSB calling CQDX CQDX this is WV#### on the Outer Banks of NC. That was In 1980 something. Good times back then.

My Dad would give Ray Couch, who ran the Red Drum Tackle Shop back then, a call from the top of the Bonner Bridge when we were on the way down to Buxton to get a fishing report. He'd fade out as we descended onto Pea Island, and we'd give him another call as we passed thru Avon.

When he built a cottage in Avon in 76, we had a CB base station. Talked to all the guys fishing on the beach on ch 13. No cable TV, no phone....

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 5:00 PM

I can remember driving up Hatteras island with a tuned up mobile and K40 on SSB calling CQDX CQDX this is WV#### on the Outer Banks of NC. That was In 1980 something. Good times back then.

My Dad would give Ray Couch, who ran the Red Drum Tackle Shop back then, a call from the top of the Bonner Bridge when we were on the way down to Buxton to get a fishing report. He'd fade out as we descended onto Pea Island, and we'd give him another call as we passed thru Avon.

When he built a cottage in Avon in 76, we had a CB base station. Talked to all the guys fishing on the beach on ch 13. No cable TV, no phone....

I always could reach Fishin' Hole from the top of the Bonner

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 6:33 PM

When he built a cottage in Avon in 76, we had a CB base station. Talked to all the guys fishing on the beach on ch 13. No cable TV, no phone....

...and now we get people who complain because the house that has 300 channels of satelite TV and a phone but won't rent it if it doesn't have Wi-Fi...

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 7:34 PM

When he built a cottage in Avon in 76, we had a CB base station. Talked to all the guys fishing on the beach on ch 13. No cable TV, no phone....

...and now we get people who complain because the house that has 300 channels of satelite TV and a phone but won't rent it if it doesn't have Wi-Fi...

Doesn't make sense to me. When I go out on the deck at night to watch the stars and listen to the night sounds, all I see is the flicker of TV sets in the surrounding cottages.

I live here so I need internet, but I've never connected the TV. Occasionally watch a movie on Netflix.

If you're going to mess with Xbox or play pool, why not stay home?

I guess I'm an old curmudgeon.

Date Posted: 12/8/2013 8:48 PM

They hang out at the pool all day, order pizza from Lisa's or Leonardo's, occasionally grill out and play in the game room all evening. Seldom do I see them actually get sand in their flip flops.

Oh and they do shot a lot of hoops in the paved drive way.

Date Posted: 12/9/2013 1:58 AM

When he built a cottage in Avon in 76, we had a CB base station. Talked to all the guys fishing on the beach on ch 13. No cable TV, no phone....

...and now we get people who complain because the house that has 300 channels of satelite TV and a phone but won't rent it if it doesn't have Wi-Fi...

Doesn't make sense to me. When I go out on the deck at night to watch the stars and listen to the night sounds, all I see is the flicker of TV sets in the surrounding cottages.

I live here so I need internet, but I've never connected the TV. Occasionally watch a movie on Netflix.

If you're going to mess with Xbox or play pool, why not stay home?

I guess I'm an old curmudgeon.
I guess we all are. I remember us getting all the food for us when we came down for fall fishing in Norfolk because we were not sure if stores would have bread or milk when we went down or be open. We would walk to the payphone at the Texaco on the right as you entered Hatteras down from the hotels with a roll of dimes to call home every few days.

Date Posted: 12/9/2013 6:53 AM

Very early Spring and I'm on the roof sealing some shingle flaps back down. Gust of wind comes along and blows my aluminum ladder down. I'm up basically 3 stories.

After about 3 hrs a local I know happens by and almost passes me by (cold enough his windows are up) before he hears my screaming.

Could have been stuck up there for days.