Calling it the biggest advance in Citizens Band radios since the CB spectrum was expanded from 23 to 40 channels in 1977, Cobra Electronics has launched a line of CB radios that can use FM as well as ...

It’s pretty amazing that CB technology in terms of its frequency allocation and limited power transmission has remained unchanged for over 40 years. That is until now—well sort of now. The FCC ...

Okay, so I’ve been around the block once or twice and remember when CB radio manufacturers got the green light from the Federal Communications Commission in 1977 to add 17 more channels for a total of ...

For this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, Mark Karnes tells the story behind the Cobra company's petition to the Federal Communications Commission some years back to allow the use of FM rather than ...

Considered the biggest change to the industry since CB radios were expanded from 23 channels to 40 channels in 1977, the new dual-mode AM/FM capabilities are now featured on Cobra's best-selling CB ...

Cobra Electronics unveiled its new line of AM/FM CB radios after spearheading a four-year petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enable FM mode communication on CBs within the ...

In the 1970s, CBs were hugely popular, and they are still popular today, though the user base is much smaller. The global CB radio market had a value of approximately USD 226.3 million in 2023, and ...

In 1981, buyers of new Cadillacs got an AM/FM stereo radio as standard equipment. Most buyers moved up to the AM/FM/cassette version (8-track was considered quite obsolete by the early 1980s), which ...

The radio spectrum is carefully regulated and divided up by Governments worldwide. Some of it is shared across jurisdictions under the terms of international treaties, while other allocations exist ...

The Federal Communications Commission will amend its rules governing short-range, low-power radio services that will affect the CB radio service, general mobile radio services (GMRS) and family radio ...