Citizen's Band Radio - Google News for Thursday 25 February 2016
 

"CB Radio" OR "Citizens Band" OR "Radio Emergency Associated Communications
Team" -Football -"Council Bluffs" - Google News

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DAVE'S PEOPLE: Still captain of my boat - Eureka Times Standard

Posted: 24 Feb 2016 03:12 PM PST
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DAVES PEOPLE: Still captain of my boat
Eureka Times Standard
I had to believe the same about my drive down Dyerville Loop Road — the sky
growing darker and the land more desolate. Finally, in a clearing, I saw
the sign “McCann Ferry,” a shack with a CB radio and life vests and a
slippery, steep path to the ...



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Dick Smith shuts for good after 48 years - NT News

Posted: 24 Feb 2016 09:15 PM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...a64cf0dfb10149


Dick Smith shuts for good after 48 years
NT News
The retailer, which blossomed with the CB radio boom of the 1970s and went
on to sell computers and stereos to generations of consumers, will close
363 Australian and New Zealand stores within eight weeks. A total of 2,890
staff will lose their jobs ...

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Want to know about the weather? Ask BP - Palm Coast Observer

Posted: 24 Feb 2016 12:48 PM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...weather-ask-bp


Palm Coast Observer
Want to know about the weather? Ask BP
Palm Coast Observer
“I was lucky to have gotten home from school and made contact with others
on the CB radio and devised a plan,” he said. “There was no central
coordinating in Flagler County. The 85 wildfires were a huge wake up call
for emergency responders.” At that ...



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The fall and rise and rise and rise of chat networks - Ars Technica

Posted: 13 Feb 2016 06:12 AM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...chat-networks/


Ars Technica
The fall… and rise and rise and rise of chat networks
Ars Technica
The CB prefix was important, because it represented citizens band radio, a
technology that had earlier reached its apogee when the 1975 novelty song
Convoy reached No 1 in the US, based on the worldwide fad for CB radio.
This song by C. W. McCall was ...