Hello Harry Hydro:

Great story there.

I use to have a pair of Lloyds 100 walkie takies, with a massive 100 mw
(.1 watts or 100 Milli watts) of power from a 9 volt transistor radio
battery.

I use to live in Lake View Terrace, near the San Ferenando Valley.
Behind out house was some hills with about a 1000 foot above the valley
floor. Well with the Lloyds 100 walkie talkies us kids climbed the hills
and where able to talk all over the place on a Saturday. We where able
to talk to boats and people on a picnic near Hanson Dam and Lake. Yeah
we was somebody all right, being able to talk all that way.

Then we hit the big times when dear ol Dad traded his Bowling Ball for a
Gonset G12 CB Radio with a massive 5 watts of input power, and a 102
inch whip antenna on the roof, gee whiz we talked all over the place. We
even talked to the Sunland Tujunga area, almost 3 miles away I think.

The power supply was Dads truck 12 volt battery out of his 1964 Custom
Cab Ford F100 Truck, with red bucket seats, simply custom back in 1966.
The battery eat up the carpet too much after leaving the charger on all
night long, but I don't think Dad knew about the carpet, or didn't yell
at us for it.

Dad was able to talk to Rebel in down town San Fernando, on channel 5,
who talked skip all the time, to back east. This must have been 1966 or 67.

Dads friends Ray (Buckshot)and Jim (Jimmey Cat) use to go deer hunting
in the hills and mountains behide us at times and they could even talk
ship on the top of the mountains with there 5 watt walkie talkies. Many
of he locals would go nutzoid when they could hear Jimmy Cat say to
Buckshot "No Ray that one is too small wait for the bigger one comes
around the hill, ect......" They wouldn't respond to any of the local
stations, as they where deer hunting, or so goes the story. But thats
another story..........

Jay in the Mojave


HarryHydro wrote:

Hi Folks:
Just remeniscing and old realistic CB walkie talkie I had. It had
the metal ground-straps on the side and it could talk 2.4 miles (just
measured on a map) with an S7. My Wife just picked up two similar
walkie-talkies at a yard sale for $5! I was wide-eyed at the size of
the thing! I remember when I was a kid wanting one of these
walkie-talkies so bad that I got the dimensions and made a cardboard
model to see 'how it felt holding one'! Wow! Thinking back! Anyone
ever routinely talk further on a CB walkie talkie?
The guy I use to talk to frequently in South Toms River was
Electro-Express. I - you guessed it - was Hydro! (hydrofoil) He'd
say, "The only walkie-talkie I know that'll talk that far is Hydro's".
I currently use a Johnson Messenger Viking. Yes, I know it's
2005.. ;-) This radio talks and sounds nice too!

Take Care!
Hydro