Citizen band radio, more commonly known as CB radio, was first developed in 1945, but took a while to reach the truck-driving masses. By 1958, the FCC had established the first regulations and 23 ...

"Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck/You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon?..." It sounds much like gibberish, but it was actually the language of enthusiasts who used a form of ...

"Mastersergeantangry" has a chat room on wheels. No Internet connection required. Through the citizens band radio in his truck, his ears are always on. Known outside radio circles as John Appel, the ...

In compiling a list of the weirdest and least-remembered of the technology fads of the 1970s, the CB radio would have to be near the top. Well before the public discourse among arbiters of what's cool ...

Anyone could be a radio personality in 1969. All it took was a licence and a CB radio. "Some use CB for business purposes, others as a hobby," said an unnamed CBC-TV reporter at a convention for early ...