Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to cure the CB pollution of the air waves by allotting more channels [July 26] has the same chance for success as a scheme to cure smog by building more roads...
...Bumper Thumper, Foxy Lady and all the other 5½ million "good buddies" out there in CB-radio country, there is good news from the Federal Communications Commission. Starting Jan. 1, the FCC will open 17 more channels (raising the total to 40) to the towering babel of the citizens, and may add still more in the future. New sets will be needed to use the added air waves, but for those who stick to their current models, traffic on the now crowded original 23 channels will probably be lightened-for a while...
...CB industrialists foresee a big boost for their booming business. But one manufacturer, Carl Korn, president of Dynascan Corp., warns that life on the new channels may be lonely at first: "A bunch of people will jump into it immediately and then realize there's no one to talk to except other kooks like them...
...populist community of the air -using many CB sets with illegally high power output-has overflowed the banks of its 23 federally assigned channels, filling the air with errant electromagnetic waves. Complaints from TV, radio and even stereo users are flooding Federal Communications Commission offices across the land. Some vigilantes with axes and sledges have invaded base stations (home-based CB transmitters) to smash offending sets...
...forestall further violence, FCC is working to increase the number of available CB channels, while Congress is considering legislation by Ohio Representative Charles A. Vanik that would require manufacturers to install filters on all new TV and radio sets as a shield against RFI. But nature may have the last word. By 1978, increasing sunspot activity may cause atmospheric changes that could interfere with, and sometimes blot out CB transmissions...