Jon Teske wrote:
The Citizen's band WAS that old, I would guess +/- a couple years
around 1960. It was not initially very popular and it was intended for
some low level commercial use...companies dispatching trucks and the
like at the local level. (Remember tube radios were still the rule and
were quite bulky.) It took until the mid-1970's when cheap
transistorized transceivers were introduced for the CB band and were
adopted by over-the-road truckers.

Actually CB was quite popular by the late 1960's and there were several
organizations founded to provide assistance to travelers and similar
functions provided by hams.

It was populated by pleasant. well mannered people until the trucker's
strike (1976?) when almost overnight it took on it's current form.

Geoff.

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