Me, 1970 on Treasure Island near the ham club (graduated Navy ET-A school), on the way from N Idaho (leave) after going to RADAR school in Georgia, and S down to NAS Miramar where I would end up for 4 years and to the end of my 6 year enlistment. ANYWAY I had just bought this 63 Chev SS 327 PowerSlide up in N Idaho. On a side note, about 1 1/2 years later I'd have my first RR a 69 383
If you look close you can see the trunk gutter mount, which was HOME MADE out of a piece of sheet metal. Just bent "as needed" and screwed into the trunk gutter. The antenna is NOT CB, but rather "2 meters" amateur radio (VHF.) This was a GE "Toilet Paper Line" (Transistorized Progress Line) which outputted upwards of 80W, a HELLofalot of power on 2M back then. This radio was converted from "under dash" mount to "trunk mount" by the same guy who would later sell me my 70 440-6 RR, and he DID the conversion right there when we were in school at TI about a year before this photo was taken
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Our ham club at TI. This is looking mostly W and "somewhere" out there to the NW is Alcratraz, and out W is the Golden Gate. The building was on the NW corner of the Island. This was a highly desirable endeavor back then, because otherwise you would be drunk in the EM club, getting into trouble in SF or Oakland, or playing poker in a smoke filled room in the barracks, which were WWII wood horrid things, with very little "comforts." (chairs)
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The "main" SSB station after I left. The difference was the receiver. We had bought the Drake T4X series transmitter before I had left, and at the time had a Collins "S line" receiver. Everything else in this photo looks familiar. National NCX-2000 amplifier, Collins control console which had a "phone patch" and wattmeter and the control box for a HUGE antenna rotator which I helped install
TPL under-dash--
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Receiver section of TPL below
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This "line" could be configured 3 ways for mobile, with proper parts.
1...Underdash as shown where the entire radio was slung under the dash. I don't think the 80W version could be done this way, too big
2....half front mount, half trunk. The "head" shown in the dash mount containing only the receiver was put under the dash, and the rest of the unit in the trunk
3....Trunk mount. The radio would have a conventional "control head" up front and the entire radio mounted in the trunk
Trunk mount 35W version
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Control head for trunk mount version
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NOW THIS 80W radio DID SOMETHING THAT A 5W CB COULD NOT DO!!!!!
I had a little neon lamp affixed to the base loaded antenna, and when you keyed the radio, the neon would light up with the PRETTIEST violet light at night. Neon normally lights up orange, but when exposed to VHF or UHF radio waves, it turns more violet color
