Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-ee!wn9nbt From: wn9nbt@ecn-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: Amateur.vs_CB Message-ID: <2396@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 21:40:17 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.2396 Posted: Wed Nov 28 21:40:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 04:43:18 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:isosvax:-17600:ecn-ee:14900011:000:714 Nf-From: ecn-ee!wn9nbt Nov 28 11:42:00 1984 Also, Childrens Band (sorry, C.B.) was intended to be a "Business" radio system at it's creation. Units could only talk to other units under the same license, except for a few circumstances such as asking directions, emergencies, /etc. Now CB licenses aren't issued (or required) any longer, and a sizable number of CB'ers are running considerably more than 5 watts, illegally of course. Most Police cars with CB's listen to channel 19 (or the local "highway" channel) to find out when their hiding places are given away by "Bear" reports when running stationary radar. Most other times they are off or squelched tight enough that they don't have to listen to the constant garbage on the channel. .....Dave