In a message to me you wrote,
 HS> There is a new CB service int he 460 Mhz band. Radio Shack
 HS> is making a big deal over it and making a ton of money off of it too.
 HS> The radios are low power, but the FM modulation makes them sound great.
        Without getting too much into detail, What is the difference
in the radio you mention and the standard C.B. that we used in the
197O's? What about Sideband? That was quite a thing. I think Simba
is a name that pops up in my mind.
        Some folks were placing sliders on the Sideband which really
made the reception of some very unusual stations and transmitting
illegally.
        On Plymouth, Massachusetts with the skip over the Atlantic Ocean
we would pick up places in Europe, and even the mid west part of the United 
States. It has been so long now since I have even looked at a C.B. radio
that with Cell phones for safety on the roads, it was like graduation from
a C.B. radio to a cell phone that made the cars today drop C.B. from the
road ways. Just about all the C.B. being done today from what I know
is the Trucks on the highways. Some State Police still have a C.B. radio
in the police vehicles.
 HS> I've sold quite a few of the Motorola "spirit" line of
 HS> portables myself for groups or companies that require communications for
 HS> short distances (less than a mile) and I have repeaters up for those who
 HS> require wider area communicaions.
The ones in the past would probably go 4 to five miles. Isn't that better?
Bill Tracy
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