citizens band
Amateur radio service
Citizens band is a range of radio frequencies allocated for short-range personal communication, especially popular among truckers and hobbyists in the 1970s and 1980s.
CB radio requires no license and allows ordinary people to communicate within a few miles: We monitored the citizens band for traffic reports.
Often abbreviated CB.
- truckersCommercial freight drivers
- good buddyCB radio address
- big rigTractor-trailer combination
- long haulProlonged difficult undertaking
- hobbyistsRecreational pursuit enthusiasts
transceiver · mobile unit · licensing · convoy · handle · smokey · modulation · antenna · emergency responders · slang · breaker · copy that · over and out · microphone · squelch · radio waves · frequency · channel
- radioFM radio, crystal set, AM radio, radio station, radio broadcast
- radio frequenciesradio wave, radio waves, radio frequency, FM, AM
institutional vs. popular access
citizens bandmilitary communications
Armed forces information exchange
citizen, citizens, citizenship, band, bands, banded, banding, bandsman