Why channel 19?

See this is what I mean! You know what he meant. You are apparently an experienced radio guy. But did you offer anything of use to anybody??????? NO! Just acted like a wise guy. and started calling names.!!!!!

(or maybe you didn't mean that way.......your turn!!!!!??)

 

CB history 101 ......

Ok this is what realy happened ..

Mid 1940's the FCC opened up a band at about 465 Mhz for a then to be known CB use.... Several companys built radios all were garbarge ans all are now illegal to even turn on ..... They used regen detectors no rf stage and would wipe out radios around them on now is called GMRS/FRS.

1958 ... Several companys pushed the FCC to open a band at 27Mhz because the radios would work better and 23 ch were allowed for this new service we call CB today.

1977 The FCC opened 17 more ch bringing CB to the 40 we have today

The FCC ban 23 ch radios at that time but never inforced it.

Class over ......

 

OK, I stand corrected. My first radio was a 23 channel radio, not just a 19. Hell, I can barely remember what it looked like. . .

Thanks for the info WA4GCH. & 73.

 

UTAH ?

My brother lives there .... retired for the goverment.

Here is a late 60's photo of m 2 meter ham station. The small radio (on the right) missing somr parts is a 23 ch CB ...

 

Hey, everyone HAS to live somewhere. I'm down in SW Utah, !(usually out of the snow!)

 

No you are wrong we use 19 here in God's country.

 

Black w900 and Condo Cruiser are right on with this and though I'm getting old and forgetful I remember what these guys said and while running thru Arizona alot of times half would be on one channel and another on another, what a mess. Oh and foul language was a strict no-no.

 

I was in Eureka Springs, Arkansas back in September and found a Royce 23 just like the one you had at a antique store for $25 with the same mic. Brought it home and hooked it up and it works good. I also found a manual for it on ebay. Those things were expensive back in the day.

 

He lives near Toolee and runs on 20 meter PSK-31 ....... I have worked him on 10 meter SSB ..

 

Most of the manufacturers of CB Radios went out of business or quit building CB Radios in the late 70's right after the 40 channel radios first hit the market for two reasons...

1.The Japan flooded the market with cheaper radios, and the U.S Builders couldn't compete with their pricing.

2. The FCC made it illegal to sell 23 channel radios once the 40 channels was approved, and the manufacturers had to recall all the unsold 23 channel radios, then retrofit them to 40 channels at their expense... So what you ended up with, was a 23 channel radio, that now had all 40 channels in it, and the channel selectors which use to just have 23 channels listed, now had 40, and it was hard to see what channel you were actually on...So no one wanted these radios vs. the digital read out radios Japan was marketing at a lesser price.

Representatives from Johnson and HY Gain manufacturers went before congress at one point trying to limit the amount of radios imported into this country in order for the U.S. Company's to recover from the 40 channel up-grade, but it was too little too late, and in the early 80's when cell phones and pagers started hitting the market the CB Craze of the 70's was just about over at which time most of the Company's building CB radios just either went belly-up, or got out of CB radios and into something else.