You are right. You did used to need a license for CB, but no longer. I
dropped out of the CB scene in the '70s. I started in 1968, but it got
so popular that is actually got worse.
I;m not sure the year that they dropped the requirement, but for years
no one bothered anyway.
There is a new CB service int he 460 Mhz band. Radio Shack is making a
big deal over it and making a ton of money off of it too. The radios are
low power, but the FM modulation makes them sound great.
I've sold quite a few of the Motorola "spirit" line of portables myself
for groups or companies that require communications for short distances
(less than a mile) and I have repeaters up for those who require wider
area communicaions.

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