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CB Radio: How Listening Can Completely Change Your Life

The story that follows is taken almost word for word from a song written and sung by Red Sovine in 1976 as a salute to American truckers. This story places it in the United Kingdom with the name “White Rabbit”. Enough of it is so recognizable that any rewrite would still be plagiarism. See the [...]

CB Radio: The 5 Basic Things You Need to Know

CB radio service operates in the 27 Megahertz waveband, divided into 40 distinct channels.
1. Channel 9 – Emergency messages only. This was not defined when CB was implemented, but has come into use since. Do not use channel 9 unless there is some kind of emergency. It would be a very [...]

How 10 Meter Radio Proves That You Can Still Make a Difference

We can’t change the fact that we all get older. For the majority of us, aging is a slow process that we hope can pass and still leave our dignity intact. As the years pass, we become less and less physically active and we tend to acquire new interests which aren’t as physically demanding.
Some [...]

Is CB Alive and Well or Dead and Buried?

Thinking that radio for sending messages and information from station to station is finished may be forgiven. But is it really smothered by all the other high technology methods of communication?
Radios that relay telephone calls, send faxes, advise the military, and perform hundreds of other tasks has become very advanced. Most communication now [...]

Radio Communication: A Quintet of Arguments for CB Radio

Only 200 years ago, the only radiation around us was from the sun and earth. Now, electromagnetic radiation, or radio waves, is everywhere. Wireless computer keyboards and mice, cell phones, television, radio, microwaves, a wireless phone, garage door openers, airport and weather radar. Radiation surrounds us. Most people know very little about it. We may [...]