Citizens Band (CB) radio is very popular. What is it used for?
Citizens’ Band two-way radio was originally licensed by the government for personal communications. In an area where 70% of the people do not have telephones, CB radios are a common accessory in vehicles. Channel 19 is always in use (to the dismay of truck drivers who use it over the rest of the Nation.) CB is a community party line. Update:2002 Citizens Band is slowly being replaced for many applications by the small frequency modulated (FM) Family Radio Service Radios. They are inexpensive, have a range from 2 to five miles and cheap. They use a shorter wave length than the 49MC Citizen’s band and are not subject to having their signals bounced off the higher levels of the earth’s atmosphere. This “skip” often renders citizen’s band radios unuseable for all but short distances although they we originally intended to exceed 50 miles. While the new FRS radios do not guarentee privacy, they have 14 channels and each channel has 38 privacy codes that can be selected so that they only rec
