[Hallicrafters] Thank You to all that have responded.

[k0myw at att.net]

In answer to Duane's question re the origins of the 11-meter Class D Citizens Band service:

Although I had my ham ticket by the time 11-meter CB came into existence, I recall that its initial aim was to provide relatively low-cost two-way communication for small businesses. My father had a beverage distributorship, and I installed Johnson Messenger transceivers in his trucks so his office manager could keep in contact with the driver-salesmen during the workday. Groundwave communication was fairly reliable for about a 10-mile radius.

73,
Mike, KØMYW

 
> Good stuff Glen, thanks!	
> 	
> Now, why was Citizens Band created, by whom and for whom? Then how did one get a
> license before 1969 when it cost twenty dollars (KCS75650) and why did the FCC
> simply not bother to enforce regularions in the early seventies?	
> 
> 
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> From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> To: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>; hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Thank You to all that have responded.
> Date: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:13 PM
> 
> The Class "D" Citizen's Radio Service officially began
> on 11 September 1958.  From 1951 until that date
> amateur radio operators were allowed to use 11 meters
> on a secondary basis in the United States.  Other
> countries allowed amateur radio operation on 11 meters
> until the early 1960s in some cases. The primary
> allocations on 11 meters, according to international
> treaty, was land mobile.  The Class "D" Citizen's
> Radio Service is a land mobile service.
> 
> Glen, K9STH
> 
> 
> --- "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net> wrote:
> 
> Used to be a ham band in the 50's. Around the 1960's
> (not sure what year) it was converted to CB.... 
> 
> 
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