Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sat Sep 17 2016 05:55 pm

-=> Joe Delahaye wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JD> If you owned one, you could continue to use it, and obviously they were
 JD> sold privately.  Back then you also needed a license to operate a CB.

A lot of 23 channel CBs found their way down here too.  Technically illegal I
think, but once the 40 channel band plan was adopted, authorities pretty much
turned a blind eye, as they were operating within specs on the 23 channels they
were capable of.  The 18 channel sets were officially phased out within a few
years, but remained on air for many years afterwards.  Probably some still out
in the wild now. :)

The latest round of obsolescence occurs when the 40 channel UHF spec sunsets in
2017, leaving only 80 channel radios legal for use on the UHF CB band, but I
suspect we'll see old gems like the Philips FM-320 on air for many years to
come. :)

And we also needed a licence in Australia to operate a CB until 1994.  I did
have a licence, two actually - one for UHF, one for 27 MHz.  We were supposed
to licence each individual radio, though I went with one per band, since I had
at least one radio on each band.  For most of thoe years, I had at least 2 CBs
on each band.  All licences held by the one person generally had the same
callsign, so it was hard to tell.


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