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During the 1970s and 1980s peak years of CB radio, many citizens band-themed magazines appeared on newsstands. Two magazines that dominated the time period were S9 CB Radio and CB Radio Magazine. S9’s successor was Popular Communications, which had the same editor under a different publisher beginning in 1982. It covered hobby radio as well ...
"Teddy Bear," released during the height of the citizens' band radio craze of the mid-1970s, is titled after the song's main character, a young paraplegic boy whose semi-trailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB radio to keep him company.
What is a CB radio? This retro communication tool never really went away. Here's a brief history and a look at some of the best CB radios available today.
One of my fondest childhood memories was our 1978 road trip from our home outside of Philadelphia to meet some friends of my parents in Taos, New Mexico. It was made all the more memorable by the ...
Following the CB radio craze of the '70s, for the same reasons as "Broderick Crawford" [32] The Trucker [49] From CB radio [8] T3 Kitchies: The T3 must be offsuit; refer to Dipthrong's kitchen for origin Fast Connection: Refers to the T3 telecommunications connection [30] Alexisdg8 A famous Canadian player from Quebec won his first tournament ...
The band used for CB was already allocated in the UK to radio controlled models. While this was usually little more than a frustrating and expensive nuisance for boat and car modellers, it did pose a genuine danger for aircraft models, which can kill [17] or seriously injure. As a result of the CB craze, an alternative band of 35 MHz.
2. Three's Company . Cast: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell Number of seasons: 8 Jack, Chrissy and Janet are quite the trio in this popular ABC sitcom, which follows the ...
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry. The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical.