Old Fashion Communication

Since I don't do much work in the shop anymore for anyone but family, I refuse to have any kind of telephone out there. It's more of a retreat than it is a working enviroment. However I still have shop owners who need parts they know I use to stock. The only way they can contact me is by the old fashion way of communicating.

I still have the cb hooked up in the shotrod w/cheap magnetic antenna but it works. Never know when that modern communication in the form of a cell phone will quit and i can usually find someone on there to make a call for me.

The telephone was patented in 1876. A CB is hardly old fashioned by comparison!

True but bet the only reason the cb is around at all is because of the truckers still using them. Maybe not but I would think that has a lot to do with it.
The 8 track and 4 track are mostly gone except for us older peoples. Vinyl is coming back kinda but not for long probably. Rotary dial sure has passed on. But the phone definitely has the staying power.

and i thought you were writing a letter

I opened this expecting a telegraph machine....

I have a 23 channel Realistic sitting in my garage cupboards. Still works!

A lot more high tech than me...

Semaphore flags?

Smoke signals maybe?

Back in the seventies you actually had to ask for a break to get on a channel. Today on any channel but nineteen it will be quiet for days without anyone talking. Around here the deer hunters do use channel twelve during the season. That leaves thirty seven clear channels for your use. The CB is a communication of the past for the general population in this area.