Citizens Band radios were in its heyday in the 70’s & 80’s and brought its own subculture. It was the primary means of communication for truckers and citizens alike. People were using “handles” instead of call signs and using it was license free. Popular movies of the time used CB radios as part of their storyline and even flowed over into songs. The popularity died down and then came other new ways of communicating like the cell phone and internet.
The Citizens Band radio frequency is on the 11 meter band and considered HF because it falls between 3 and 30 MHz. To be more specific, the CB radio is 27 MHz. Although it is HF, the CB radio frequencies are channelized to 40 specific frequencies and given a channel number, 1 through 40. Its not as open as the amateur radio frequency band plan but nevertheless, still a form of communications.
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