Image from Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture (courtesy Four Corners Books) In the late 1970s to early 1980s, there was a frenzy for Citizens Band (CB) radio in the UK. However, while ...

*It turned out you could hack them. That's why they were a hit in the brief but intense heyday of CB radio. Out of the box, the Cobra 138XLR was one of the more capable Citizen’s Band (CB) radios ...

Citizen Band (CB) radios, made fashionable in the 1970s by movies like Breaker Breaker and Smokey and the Bandit, are experiencing a resurgence in popularity thanks to nostalgic baby boomers. The ...

Do you remember the heyday of citizens band radio in the mid-1970s, when that communications craze had much of the country talking in a Southern drawl, using 10 codes (as in "10-4" to mean ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Despite the rise of smartphones, satellite communication, and modern two-way radios, CB (Citizens Band) radios remain a relevant part of ...

Back in the 1970s, when truckers became American pop-culture heroes and CB radios became commonplace in Malaise Era cars, it seemed that anybody who wanted to install a transceiver under the dash ...

In the 1970s, CB radio peaked in popularity. The national speed limit had dropped to 55 miles per hour and drivers began to equip their trucks with CB radios to learn where to get cheaper fuel and the ...

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt) was you could make phone calls using a “phone patch.” In the 1970s, calling someone from inside your parked ...

The radio spectrum is carefully regulated and divided up by Governments worldwide. Some of it is shared across jurisdictions under the terms of international treaties, while other allocations exist ...