Cb radio from the 1970's to 2016

[mof000]

I came across this article earlier:-
http://radiosguide.com/articles/cb-radi ... s-to-2016/

" Finally the British government allowed for the usage of American CB radios and Al Gross was the first one to take the initiative of making the very first CB radio of the Great Britain right from the Trafalgar Square in London. Afterwards, the UK government became very generous and allowed the users to enjoy up to 80 CB radio channels through this device."

Although our government didn't legally allow us to use American cb radios!

[Tim]

Obviously having a lot of inaccuracy's in the article it was not published for the UK, especially the 'cell' phone bit.

[Admiral]

It reads like a Google translation from Mandarin Chinese to Afrikaans and then to English.

[Oggy]

Al Gross (the American known for inventing CB Radio in the USA) did make the first "Legal" CB Radio transmission on a UKFM set and even paid the £10 license fee before hand.
It was in Trafalgar Square, London in a Rolls Royce to the well known CBer who pushed hard for legalisation known as DJ1.

[Farty]

The FCC invented CB radio in 1945 when they announced the creation of the Citizens Band Service. In 1958 the FCC later introduced the 27MHz service . So, if anyone 'invented' CB radio it was some faceless bureaucrat in the FCC.

The equipment can trace its lineage back to WWII and the SCR300 and SCR536 field radios developed by Dan Mitchell and Don Noble of Galvin Manufacturing, which later became Motorola.

The walkie itself was invented by Donald Hings. Gross liked the idea, copied It, and then patented it himself. Gross may well have popularised and commercialised it, but he far from actually invented it.

[Transwarp]

Ørsted, Ampère, Henry, Hughes, Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi, Fessenden. Without these guys there would be no radio at all.

[Tim]

And don't forget Watt, Volt and Di Pole.

[JohnB57]

And don't forget Watt, Volt and Di Pole.

Di Pole? The one who invented dancing?

[beamer320i]

And of course, Lenny R. Ampleefire invented the 'burner'

[mof000]

and not forgetting Mike r Phone

[Tim]

Also Anne Tenna.

[JohnB57]

Yagi Bear?

[WeatherWatcher]

Roger Bleep

[Tim]

Mike Gain.

The Chap from Norway, Sig Nall.

[beamer320i]

Going back to Lenny R. Ampleefire, I know he had a long term partnership with R.F. Burns...