Cb radio from the 1970's to 2016

[Farty]

And God, who invented the ether.

[Transwarp]

Roger Bleep

Didn't he get a knighthood in the 1980's?

[Oggy]

The FCC invented CB radio in 1945 when they announced the creation of the Citizens Band Service. In 1958 the FCC later introduced the 27MHz service . So, if anyone 'invented' CB radio it was some faceless bureaucrat in the FCC.

The equipment can trace its lineage back to WWII and the SCR300 and SCR536 field radios developed by Dan Mitchell and Don Noble of Galvin Manufacturing, which later became Motorola.

The walkie itself was invented by Donald Hings. Gross liked the idea, copied It, and then patented it himself. Gross may well have popularised and commercialised it, but he far from actually invented it.

Al Gross indeed patented the Walkie Talkie and was known as the Father of CB Radio.
The same debate could be had about Marconi.
He's the person everyone mentions about radio, but others did it before him.

[beamer320i]

Roger Bleep

Ah yes, he had a fling with Kay Tone..

[mof000]

The FCC invented CB radio in 1945 when they announced the creation of the Citizens Band Service. In 1958 the FCC later introduced the 27MHz service . So, if anyone 'invented' CB radio it was some faceless bureaucrat in the FCC.

The equipment can trace its lineage back to WWII and the SCR300 and SCR536 field radios developed by Dan Mitchell and Don Noble of Galvin Manufacturing, which later became Motorola.

The walkie itself was invented by Donald Hings. Gross liked the idea, copied It, and then patented it himself. Gross may well have popularised and commercialised it, but he far from actually invented it.

Al Gross indeed patented the Walkie Talkie and was known as the Father of CB Radio.
The same debate could be had about Marconi.
He's the person everyone mentions about radio, but others did it before him.

Sounds a bit like the Geordie lamp vs the Davey lamp?
We all know that the Geordie Lamp is the real deal though!

[WeatherWatcher]

you forgot Crystal Ossi Lata

[Tim]

And the Welshman Dai Ode. I think he had a tranny sister called Clarry Fyer who was a bit coarse.

[ghost123uk]

Funny thread, jumping from serious facts to jokes

Going back to Lenny R. Ampleefire, I know he had a long term partnership with R.F. Burns...

I was going to post summat related to that ^^^ but I can't find it. It's a book that I have somewhere, written for RAF apprentice radio technicians in the late 40s (iirc). It's full of information and explanations about RF related circuits (all valve).

I can't remember the actual title of the book, but I know it's author is a Mr R. F. Burns (not joking)

The very last page explains how a new type of modulation is being experimented with by RAF technicians, but they conclude that it is very unlikely to ever be widely used. It's known as "Frequency modulation".

[Auldgeek]

All of this carry on has to stop.

By order of the police constable P.C Board

[WeatherWatcher]

New single released called Garbled by the famous SS Band

[ghost123uk]

CB radio from the 1970's to 2016





OK, so that ^^^ one isn't strictly a CB radio (400 - 480 mHz) but this is =

[Admiral]

It's very hard to comment on a thread when 50% of the contributors to it are treating it as a Members Lounge thread.

Anyway, I personally think that the British Government initially were anti-CB because they didn't want free communication between the great unwashed, it was a media that could generate communities of anti-establishment tendencies and could encourage free speech, which although a democratic right, was unhealthy in their eyes as we were supposed to toe the line of official media sources which were generally controlled by the Government.

[paulears]

Did anybody watch Skippy? They used CB radios and had proper callsigns XMY557A for Apple and XMY557B for Bear, so presumably Australia had CB formalised over there in the 60s. It just occurred to me that I just remembered what must have been my first ever callsign heard! Can't remember the character's names, but can remember the calling. That's rather sad, actually!

[ghost123uk]

1980's = Then there was all that fuss about UK legal CB sets possibly causing interference to aircraft landing systems and the like. Most of the sets back then had a low power switch (1/4W iirc) that one was supposed to use (by law) if one was operating above a certain height. I wonder how many folk dutifully followed that rule . I remember seeing a test by some aerial manufacturer (I forget who now) running the full 4 Watts into one of their aerials, mounted right next to a Jumbo Jet, whilst the crew performed instrument checks, all with no ill effects.

Of course there were restrictions on the length of the aerial's radiating element too (are they still in existence?)

Also, I was surprised when they decided to drop the requirement for a CB licence in 2006.
I wonder what the rationale was behind that decision?

[mof000]

"Also, I was surprised when they decided to drop the requirement for a CB licence in 2006.
I wonder what the rationale was behind that decision?"

When they dropped the CB licence i half expected them to introduce a "Computer licence"