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Old Jan 28, 2008 | 06:44 PM
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Default RE: South Idaho Folks

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Jeremiah, that's what (if I'm not mistaken) the "C" and "B" were for in CB (consumer bandwidth) radios. That was the fcc portion of the spectrum allotted for civilians!

Yeah, my handle at the very tender age of 6 was T-Bird.
Actually they were called Citizen Band radios so you had a good guess. The operated in the 11 Meter band or 26-28 Mhz. One of my first long distance talks was to our friends in Canada/Nova Scotia. I was driving north band on the highway in my sublime Challenger and I must have talked to them for about 10 minutes.

The picture in my avatar was before I put the CB antenna on the back trunk lid. I also used to power a 100 W linear amplifier in my Challenger so I could really talk far and clear. You could see my headlights get sligthly dim when I keyed up the mike. Cool times!
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