On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:13:02 -0400, Jon Teske
wrote:


I stand corrected: according to http://www.radioing.com/museum/tx4.html,
the Ranger II was made from 1961 to 1965. I didn't know the class D
citizen's band was that old.

William


The Citizen Radio Service began in 1947, and the first Class D Citizen
Band licenses were issued on September 11, 1958. Not sure when they
were discontinued.


There was some sort of Citizens service throughout the 50's as you
say, but it wasn't on 11 meters, or at least not on what had been the
11 meter ham band.

That's true. The original Citizen Band prior to the one we know today
was on 460 to 470 Mhz, and there were two licenses. A and B. The
problem with that was that there was very little equipment that could
operate at those frequencies. That was when the FCC took the 11-meter
band away from the amateur radio operators and started the 11-meter
Citizen Band with the Class D license in 1958.

Dick - W6CCD



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