Albert, who also used the handle "Nightowl", was a member of the Channel 13 group, which lasted from 1977 to about 1981, and he was also one of my closest CB friends during this period. He was about 4 years older than me, and resembled actor Donny Most (Ralph Malph, of Happy Days fame). A fact which he got ribbed about on occasion. Albert had a great sense of humor, with just enough tabloid style CB paranoia and conspiracy theories thrown in, to make his radio exploits interesting. Albert could take the most innocuous event, and interpret it as some sort of fiendish "plot". There was never a dull moment on the radio when he was around. Albert was the originator of many of our on-air comedy bits and parodies of local CB'ers, who had displayed certain "traits", which were worthy of lampooning. Some of these "victims" were members of our own channel group, and many were people on other channels. Some of them did not share the humor in their presentation, and this would become the source of a few on-air battles, including one portrayed in this clip. Albert referred to himself jokingly as the "general manager" of Channel 13, liking the channel hierarchy to that of a radio station. He later bestowed that honor on me and promoted himself to the title of "secretary of humor". It was typically Albert and myself who looked into any suspicious radio activities, and tracked down those occasional agitators. I remember one such incident where Albert had impersonated an F.C.C. engineer, in order to gather information about a person he had just tracked down. This person had put a rubber band over his mike button, and had transmitted a dead carrier for over 12 hours. This person thought (wrongly) that because he was running an indoor antenna, that we couldn't find him. Well, Albert tracked him down (I had to work, so I missed the fun) and then found out his name from a neighbor, who was all too willing to help the "F.C.C." man. We then used his name and address to get his phone number (it was listed), and we then called him. Imagine his surprise when we "nicely" told him to knock off the carrier. I don't think the guy's wife was too happy, as you could hear her yelling in the background while the rubber band was being hastily removed from the mike......
In sharp contrast to his jovial slapstick on-air personality, Albert also had another side. His family were members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and Albert was a part of that lifestyle to some degree. He never preached or talked religion to any of us over the air, and he tried to separate his different lives as much as possible. One time he practically ignored us, when we happened to bump into him in public while he was with his "church" members. Despite all of that, we had a lot of fun together on the radio and on the various road trips that we took, including an especially memorable trip to Hershey Park, where we ran a 3 car caravan, and communicated with each other on class "C" channel "7A", (from then on referred to as "The Hershey Channel").
Albert's radio equipment consisted of a Roberts 23 channel mobile, a Lafayette HB-640, 40 channel mobile, and a Lafayette Telsat SSB 50a. He initially ran an indoor antenna, then upgraded to a Radio Shack 1/2 wave (Super Maxim) ground plane antenna. When Albert's family moved away and Albert got his own apartment, his CB'ing took a sharp decline, as he could no longer put up an outside antenna. He would pop out of the woodwork on occasion though, and shock the heck out of me as recently as the late 80's.
Today: I saw Albert briefly about 4 years ago, right before I moved. He had said that he wanted to get back into radio, but we now live too far apart to communicate reliably, so I don't know if he ever did get back on. Albert is married now, but I don't know if he has any kids.