{"id":8876,"date":"2014-03-19T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:03:43","slug":"drews-cb-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/drews-cb-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew’s CB Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"77realisticcbradio\"<\/a>SWLing Post reader, Chris, writes:<\/p>\n

“I found this web page \u00a0that my be of interest to your blog readers. A guy named Drew Durigan has saved CB radio audio of himself talking to his friends when he was a teenager in the 1970’s. Its mostly kids talking smack about each other with CB radios, kind of like kids do today with text messages and facebook. \u00a0The web page is called Radio Geek Heaven<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/radiogeekheaven.com\/cb-radio\/cb-radio-tapes\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that Drew has also posted numerous FM\/AM air checks on Radio Geek Heaven<\/a> as well–a lot of good audio to dig through.<\/p>\n

Thanks for sharing, Chris<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Chris, writes: “I found this web page \u00a0that my be of interest to your blog readers. A guy named Drew Durigan has saved CB radio audio of himself talking to his friends when he was a teenager in the 1970’s. Its mostly kids talking smack about each other with CB radios, kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,2644,554],"tags":[2625,604,2626],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-cb","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-cb-audio","tag-cb-radio","tag-radio-geek-heaven"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2ja","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44392,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-halcyon-days-of-cb-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":8876,"position":0},"title":"The Halcyon Days of CB Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"July 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I read a message from a ham radio operator who was just awarded a vanity call sign in honor of his father's 1970s era CB radio call sign. 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