Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 20, 2014

An “early” cellphone antenna?

A status symbol.

I don’t think the earlier car phones were cell phones. Different animals.

Never heard of it!

What’s cellphone antenna. And isn’t a cell phone something you call your lawyer from in jail?

Got your ears on? Come back!

Car phone, not cell phone. (Still connected to the early cell towers.)

Roger blew it. He sounds like he is under 30.

Real Plugger’s cars don’t have that antenna. They have a car with an old fashioned push-button radio tuner. And the push-buttons were mechanical not electronic!

Young comic readers won’t even know what I am talking about.

Way, way off the mark on this one, Brookins.

Most cars I’ve seen with those antennas, the owner didn’t even know what it was for… it was on the car when they bought it – besides, there wasn’t a wire or cable to attach to anything.

@jimguessI had that radio, and an Oldsmobile with a switch on the floor that would move the radio dial up one notch at a time. Car was so big, we said it had it’s own zip code.

Thanks to Hedy Lamarr (who was involved in the basic electronics design as a WW-II unjam-able guidance system for torpedoes).

My car still has it’s “Radio” antenna… goes up and down, n everything!

Oh, is that what those were?

“What’s a cellphone?” said the real plugger.

That looks like an AMC Concord from the 70s. Some other fellow must have added the car antenna and then the plugger fellow bought it and left it on. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/1981_AMC_Concord_4-door_beige_PArl.jpg

Guess a CB whip doesn’t make it either.

My friend had one. It was called a “Phoney”.

I have a ham radio antenna on mine

Cellphone antenna? I thought that was a rest stop perch for the birds to do there thing on my window!

Those old car/cell phones had about fifty times the power of new ones, you could get a signal a long way off in open ground. Five watts vs. about 100 milliwatts.