>   Re: Wannbe HAM
 >   By: Bob Seaborn to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 10:44:01
 >
 >>> Originally it was 23 channels.  When the 40 channel sets came in, it
 >
 >BS> Actually, originally it was 19 in Canada channels, 1, 2, 3, & 23 were
 > not
 >BS> permitted for the first few years.
 >
 > I did not know that.


I started playing with CB when I first lived in Windsor, in 1960.  That was
a few years befor it was authorized in Canada, but when the nearest DOC
monitoring was in London, 120 miles away, and one lived a few hundred feet
south of the US border, well.....  :)





                       .....Bob


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