Satellite radio has several advantages over conventional AM and FM stations: It's broadcast over clear, static-free digital signals from orbiting satellites. You can receive the same radio content ...

A CB radio is often one of those items that you don't feel you need until you are the one guy on the trail without one. Everyone is having a great time chatting on the road, and you are left out. Not ...

It’s hard for me to believe, but it has been 40 years ago today that “Convoy,” by C.W. McCall, was the number one song on the U.S. pop charts. Citizen’s Band radios were flying off the shelves and ...

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt) was you could make phone calls using a “phone patch.” In the 1970s, calling someone from inside your parked ...

‘Listen to this,” the Michigan State Police trooper told me as he turned on a CB radio mounted in his Plymouth Gran Fury police car in 1985. The cop was parking on the side of Interstate 96 outside of ...

My very first car was a 1969 Toyota Corona sedan, purchased for $50 in 1981. It had a factory AM radio, and on that radio's face were little triangle-in-a-circle symbols at 640 and 1240 kHz. What are ...

At a dinner I recently attended, someone made a joke about the citizens band radio fad. I chuckled along with everyone else, but I don't agree that CBs should simply be dismissed.CB radios were a ...

"Mastersergeantangry" has a chat room on wheels. No Internet connection required. Through the citizens band radio in his truck, his ears are always on. Known outside radio circles as John Appel, the ...