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Show By Ted testing In a recent article entitled "The ABCs of CB Radio," Sports Ajield'i Recreational Vehicle Editor Jack Seville discusses the growing popularity popu-larity and significance of Citizens Band Radio. "You can get on the air with a $25 battery-powered walkie-talkie or spend $300 or more for a desk model plugged into house current and connected to an antenna on your roof," Seville explains. "In between," lie tells us, "are compact com-pact 12-volt sets which will enable you to send and receive voice communication com-munication in your tar or boat." A license from the FCC is required re-quired to operate a CB radio. It costs $4 for five years. No test is required. Actually it is a registration registra-tion rather than a license, and it permits the owner and his family an unlimited number of sets. The Recreational Vehicles Editor Edi-tor explains that Citizens Band radio, as its designation implies, is for personal communication between be-tween citizens. In some areas users have banded together to monitor and relay emergency messages, but neither the Weather Bureau nor the Coast Cuard uses it for official broadcasts or monitoring. The Federal Fed-eral Communications Commission supervises the licensing and maintains main-tains nominal supervision to prevent pre-vent abuse by overpowering or monopolizing. FCC monitoring teams enforce jhe minimal regulations: basically good manners and the required use of proper identification. It is not against the law to have a nickname or "handle," but it is against the law to use it without also using the call k-tters which are assigned with the license. Except for the designation of channel 11 as the calling frequency and channel 9 as a highway emergency emerg-ency frequency, it is permissible to talk to anyone on any of the channels. chan-nels. Channel 11 is used to get in touch with someone and then that person agrees to switch to another channel to carry on the conversation. conversa-tion. It is also permissible to use one of the other channels by pre-arrangement pre-arrangement for calling. |
