cb radio history channel

[farmboy3w]

CB radio the original social network

[thenegas2011]

remember that

[thenegas2011]

breaker 19 there;s a smoky mile marker 42 on 75

[sweetgyy]

fuck internet, cb is the real thing

[ROFLCOPTERS92]

@sweetgyy got dat right man! where do u live i might be able to talk to u lol! my handle is 'bandit'

[MrJacob1777]

back in 1970 a cb radio was like facebook!

[ilovenbcnews]

The writers made an error, the CB band is between 26 and 27.5 Mhaz, that would be more accurate, oh well.

[aallppiinnee]

heh, Panasonic TV right?

[jdailey19811]

I am a licensed ham radio operator, but I will say this day in age a person needs to have a wireless means of communication in event of an emergency and phones don't work. Like ham, cb will work on a car battery, so by all means, if ham isn't for you, get you a good cb, and get on the air.

[Fantome1989]

What we need is a good Hollywood movie with the use of CB radios to get more people to use them. Movies like "Joyride" scare people away form using them! Someone needs to make a movie like Fast & Furious but with CB in the plot. Think street racing with Hondas and Mitsubishi but on the truck they have a K40 whip and an export radio that they use to talk to each other and look out for police. That would make everyone want a CB radio..

[thisisyourboss]

hahah i aint a trucker but i just bought a cv for my car =D, and planning to get an anternna mounted, i think it might look funny since its my car is lowered rims, body kit, then there is going to be a antenna sticking out of nowhere lol :P

[aa9g1]

Incorrect: CB radio does not transmit between 24 and 27 MHz; it operates between 26 and 27 MHz. (The only channels that transmit in 26 MHz are channels 1 through 4; all others are 27 MHz.)

[29pu04]

never mind the solar cycle its all a load of crap this was well before global warming kicked in and now were fxxed 10-4 good buddy

[hookuspookus529]

a chicken house is a go-go bar not a weigh staition

[Tronlegacy22]

what is the name of this video?

[poikaa3]

CB radio interest got me into amateur radio, I still use my CB on SSB to keep in touch with my friends! But when the solar cycle comes around! Australia or Europe is possible on the CB....

[camarolover1982]

@poikaa3 when is the next solar cycle?

[poikaa3]

@camarolover1982 We are in the beginning of cycle 24 now, every day I am hearing more "skip" from places like Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. Lot of Spanish speaking people there too. No Europe yet but 20 meters is really rolling at times! All signs of the peak of cycle 24 is on it's way!

[oneeye4263]

@camarolover1982 we are in it right now skip is bouncing



[thephilchannel]

CB radio was invented by ancient aliens who came to earth and told nostradamus to put secret codes in the bible for 2012.

[beast6228]

CB radio isn't dead completely, but it in some areas it' still popular. I'm hoping that the sunspots flare up and cause global meltdown of the internet, cell phones and people will have to revert back to over the air communications such as cb and hamradio.

[videotimesss1]

The cool thing about cb is that you could talk to anyone who was on the air on whatever channel you picked, except ch.9,( only for emergencies), also, it was very hard to trace who or where you were, so you could not worry about being traced when you were really having fun! CB radio, during skip conditions, (when the ionosphere was energized), could reach out thousands of miles to all over the U.S.and Canada, and, of course, it was free, much unlike communication today.

[inkey2]

@exposed97 yeah, that era was fun.....when i was in high school, every kid that had a car had a cb in it

[inkey2]

the CB craze of the late 70s "destroyed" CB radio. The airwaves became so jammed you couldn't even use them anymore

[meangreen69Nova]

@inkey2 Yeah but didn't the airwaves eventually become less crowded during the mid 80's?

My understanding of why CB died was like you said at first, everyone jamming onto the frequencies, then later the FCC quit monitoring the airwaves and all the sudden the airwaves became a mess of cuss words and insults.

[inkey2]

@meangreen69Novasome other things that killed CB is.....the movie "Smokey & The Bandit"....after that movie everybody and their grandmother bought a CB.......then the hand held motorola radios that used a better frequency, then came cell phones. I really loved CB in the 1960s and up till about 1972. It was like a huge chat room......everyone I knew from school was on late at night....interesting conversations, verbal wars and total crazyness....many a night I fell a sleep to my CB

[meangreen69Nova]

@inkey2 Hmmm....while that makes sense, I was under the impression that the fad caught on before then....like around 1975 when C.W. McCall released the "Convoy" song....as a matter of fact isn't that the whole reason why the FCC went from 23 channels to 40 channels in January 1977? Because the channels became so crowded? And I believe Smokey And The Bandit came out later that summer?

[inkey2]

@meangreen69Nova RIGHT....I forgot about convoy.....everything swelled up to be the perfect storm to kill CB

[StreamingKnowledge]

What's an average range for a handheld CB?

[fordbroncodave]

@StreamingKnowledge elevation and surroundings have a large role in transmit range. you could transmit 10 miles in line of sight or accross the united states when skip is present.

[stickyfox]

@StreamingKnowledge Handhelds don't do well because of the tiny antennas but with enough power they can beat UHF handhelds because the signal "bends" around terrain. Skip has no effect on a handheld. You're not going to work skip without a good antenna.

[inkydoug]

@StreamingKnowledge In the real world you are lucky to transmit 1/2 mile with one of those.

[utubeworms]

@inkydoug That's because 99% of people don't know how to set up a proper antenna.

[inkydoug]

@utubeworms what are the antenna options for a handheld cb? A rubber ducky? no ,that is the problem. a 9 ft whip? not so handheld anymore, See the trouble?

[meangreen69Nova]

@inkydoug Yep, the real problem with CB hand helds is they use waaaaaayyyyy too short of an antenna to really work correctly. Really CB is just an outdated form of communications that has had no major advancements in technology since introduction.

[Delivered0ne]

@meangreen69Nova Not so(!) now that Cheshire has brought out their new 1.5w pep SSB Walkie/Talkie which uses a separate 3.6v Lithium Ion battery for frequency stability & a loaded 1/4 wave antenna, the range from W/T to W/T has increased to 10 miles in town, 25 miles over water, 100 miles from mountain top to mountain top, or a more real world average of 20 miles from Walkie/Talkie to a decent SSB base station, & the usable battery life at 1.5w pep, 35% transmit time is 7 hours!

[meangreen69Nova]

@Delivered0ne Whaaaattt? Where did you hear this?

[meangreen69Nova]

@StreamingKnowledge About 2 miles....maybe. 

[inkey2]

@meangreen69Nova Range greatly depends on various situations. When I was about 15 years old in 1970 I had my Lafayette HE-90 hooked up to a large television antenna in my attic. After about 9pm I was sending and recieving a lot further than 2 miles. I was doing about 5 to 10 miles. The later at night the better

[CatchUpToMe]

I want 1

[michiganskeletor669]

well i am not a trucker but i still talk on the cb radio

[bluejay148]

that was cool

[sparky42]

A lot of the info. in this history channel video was wrong.

[fordbroncodave]

@sparky42 i know. they know they aren't right too because fcc laws and they can't state things that are illegal

[RFjunk]

It's like nothings changed.

[billtheworker]

killer