09-18-16 09:14 Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON about Re: Wannbe HAM   
   Howdy! Tony,   
      
    -=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-   
      
    JA> Here in the US it's still 40 channel CB's sold in truck stops, etc. I   
    JA> assume that's a local thing?   
      
    TL> Yes, UHF CB was one of those uniquely Aussie things.  Other countries   
    TL> now have UHF CB or similar, but ours is still very unique - we have   
    TL> repeaters, for one thing. :)   
      
   After reading Your words about UHF CB it made me remember the Vocaline   
   Model JCR-400 Standard 465 Mc/s (Citizens Radio Band) Transceiver for sale   
   here in the USA back when I was a youngster.   
      
   I got my 1959 Allied Radio catalog out and found it on page 391.   
      
   It sold for $59.80 USD plus shipping and said the operator had to be 18   
   to get a license from the U.S. F.C.C. to operate it.   
      
   The catalog was Copyrighted in 1958.   
      
   27 Mc/s Citizens Band didn't begin in the USA until iirc September 1959,   
   but the F.C.C. had the UHF CB Service already going several (many?) years   
   before they allowed CB on the 27 Mc/s HF frequencies.   
      
   73 de Ed  W9ODR in Indiana     .  .   
      
      
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