Five Things Every New CB Owner Should Know Welcome to the world of Citizens Band radio! Don’t be nervous – everyone is friendly. That was the reason the band was created in the first place – to be an avenue...
Five Things to Look at When Checking Your CB’s Performance Like many things electronic, CB radios can be cranky. They’ll work just fine one day and sound like crud the next. Of course, this could be due to weather conditions,...
While Citizens Band CB Radio was available in the U.S. since 1948, the transceivers didn’t grow in popularity toward the late 1960s. This is when their solid-state electronics were modernized to reduce the price. The true craze in CB radios began...
Al Gross invented the Citizens Band (CB) radio to help people wirelessly communicate with each other long before the concept of a cellular phone was put into production. By the late 1960s and early 1970s he attained this thanks to...
Walkie talkie inventor Al Gross decided to design the Citizen Band (CB) radio due to a decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). After World War Two, the FCC decided to open 23 frequencies between 26 MHz and 28 MHz...
Where would we be without CB Radio? Well, we wouldn’t have had Smokey and the Bandit movies. And, the 70s CB craze would have been substituted by something else. In addition, common codes like 10-4 and handles like Smokey or...
This is a great question that we get from time to time. When using the SSB band, you are receiving a narrow band signal which drastically reduces noise, distortion and interference. To do this, the carrier is removed from the...
As the Citizen Band (CB) entered its 60th year in 2018, a question arose. Do people still use CB radios in today’s world of high-speed broadband and smart devices? The answer is yes. If not, the specialists here at CB...
In most cases, there are two basic types of CB Radios on the market today: ones that offer both AM and Single Sideband (SSB) and ones that only offer AM modulation. Their are significant benefits to using a CB radio...
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