Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To : Tony Langdon
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sun Sep 18 2016 09:18 pm
09-18-16 09:14 Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON about Re: Wannbe HAM
Howdy! Tony,
-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-
JA> Here in the US it's still 40 channel CB's sold in truck stops, etc. I
JA> assume that's a local thing?
TL> Yes, UHF CB was one of those uniquely Aussie things. Other countries
TL> now have UHF CB or similar, but ours is still very unique - we have
TL> repeaters, for one thing. :)
After reading Your words about UHF CB it made me remember the Vocaline
Model JCR-400 Standard 465 Mc/s (Citizens Radio Band) Transceiver for sale
here in the USA back when I was a youngster.
I got my 1959 Allied Radio catalog out and found it on page 391.
It sold for $59.80 USD plus shipping and said the operator had to be 18
to get a license from the U.S. F.C.C. to operate it.
The catalog was Copyrighted in 1958.
27 Mc/s Citizens Band didn't begin in the USA until iirc September 1959,
but the F.C.C. had the UHF CB Service already going several (many?) years
before they allowed CB on the 27 Mc/s HF frequencies.
