From: John Smith on Wed 24 Aug 2005 19:04

Len:

If this were the 1930's, dan would be a dangerous man. Besides serving
hitler in the search for evil jews, he would also be pursuing cb'ers who
want an amateur license...

Cartoon character hero Buzz Corey remarked that there were no CB-ers
in the 1930s. Neither was there any "Commander Buzz Corey." :-)
Only Buck Rogers and the beginnings of science-fiction writing.

Buzzy baby just can't understand any allegories or analogies.

The 1930s didn't have a heckuva lot of radio of any kind except
broadcast receivers. The number of radio amateurs was small and
they made little impact on the radio world then. The "wireless
broadcasters," largely wireless coupling of phonographs to AM
radios, hadn't even started to pick up yet. Communications radio
was largely confined to the maritime world, the (many) radio
communications providers and carriers, and governments. SSB was
there on HF but nearly all of those SSB were of the 4-voice-
channel kind carrying both voice and TTY. A few police
departments were experimenting with two-way voice radios for
vehicle communications and finding it worthwhile. Aviation
radio was almost non-existant (compared to today) and the
"radionavigation aids" consisted of the LF two-antenna-lobe
"A-N" beacon. In smaller radio stations code was king. The
EM spectrum was far from being allocated beyond 30 MHz and
there would come many many changes in the near future. Morse
code skill was then a necessity in amateur radio since so few
radio amateurs had any other mode capability. The Titanic
sinking was only 18 to 28 years past the 1930s and the morse
myths of "saving lives" (via the new international 500 KHz
maritime distress-safety frequency) were in full flower.

With the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929, consumer
radio was having a tough time in the market, not much left to
play around with "technical hobbies" by many. By 1930 over a
quarter of the American work force was out of a regular job and
had to fend for themselves at whatever they could. The thought
of ANY kind of "personal communications radio" was a rare pipe-
dream...NOT possible for most of the denizens of this din of
inequity.

Buzzy-baby was born on the black and white TV tube and never
really left that fantasyland. Even today he is only two-
dimensional. :-)

dim two