Another dip in the charity box, and another cool find! This is a General Electric, 5805-A, CB radio. From what the date stamp tells me, it is from around 1985. The aesthetic of it is fantastic. It looks of the time and is squared off, like a chiselled, metal, box. Giving it a run, it works great and the mic is even in spot on condition. In the 70s and 80s, GE were a mainstay of transceiver radios for vehicles and home. It was a big thing. back then. I grew up with CB and HAM radios in the house, having the handle, The Menace.
In the radio days, you had a handle, a name that was like your online nickname, today. My Dad was the Mad Hatter (this was die to him making foam, cowboy, hats on the markets,) with my brother as The Pied Piper. It was so simple by comparison to today’s technologies, but there were always gardens, including ours, that hide dipoles reaching into the air. You do still see people with them, now. I am planning to add a communications array onto the workshop. Look out for aerials pointing up from behind people’s houses.
This is a sweet find and will be tested properly when a usable aerial is located. It brings back so much nostalgia! Citizen Band was a way to communicate over a choice of forty channels. You originally had to have a licence, but this was abolished, for common sense, a few decades ago. HAM radio is still very much controlled, but is the for more hardcore radio enthusiast, whom have to do exams!. I’m even tempted to fit it in Vyvyan! I wonder?
