>   Re: Wannbe HAM   
    >   By: Bob Seaborn to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 10:44:01   
    >   
    >>> Originally it was 23 channels.  When the 40 channel sets came in, it   
    >   
    >BS> Actually, originally it was 19 in Canada channels, 1, 2, 3, & 23 were   
    > not   
    >BS> permitted for the first few years.   
    >   
    > I did not know that.   
      
      
   I started playing with CB when I first lived in Windsor, in 1960.  That was a   
   few years befor it was authorized in Canada, but when the nearest DOC   
   monitoring was in London, 120 miles away, and one lived a few hundred feet   
   south of the US border, well.....  :)   
      
      
      
      
      
                          .....Bob   
      
      
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