• In the United Kingdom, CB radio was first legally introduced in 1981, but had been used illegally for some years prior to that. In December 2006, CB radio...
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  • 27 MHz CB27/81 Bandplan (category Mass media in the United Kingdom)
    The 27 MHz CB27/81 Bandplan is a list of the channel frequencies for FM CB radio in the United Kingdom. Unlike CB usage in the United States, and subsequently...
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    Citizens band radio (CB radio) is a land mobile radio system, a system allowing short-distance one-to-many bidirectional voice communication among individuals...
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  • Look up CB, C.B., or C.-B. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. CB and variants may refer to: CB postcode area, British post code for eastern England served...
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    and many other nations by the United States Air Force. Illegal use of licensed radio spectrum (also known as bootlegging in CB circles) is fairly common...
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  • Midland is the oldest U.S. manufacturer of CB radios.[citation needed] In the 1990s, CTE International acquired a significant share of Midland Radio Corporation...
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    Postal codes used in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies are known as postcodes (originally, postal codes). They are...
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  • Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom is commonly understood to be an electrical installation for operation by end users within domestic, commercial...
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  • Sally Boazman (category British radio presenters)
    reports from motorists on mobile phones and lorry drivers on CB radio. Boazman has presented Radio 2's weekend travel bulletins since 2014, alongside Orna...
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    such as CB radio and the United States MURS allocation) and forbidding modified radios. Most personal walkie-talkies sold are designed to operate in UHF allocations...
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    Cell Broadcast (redirect from SMS-CB)
    Broadcast (CB) is a method of sending short messages to multiple mobile telephone users in a defined area at the same time. It is defined by the ETSI's GSM...
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  • Retreat (film) (category Citizens band radio in popular culture)
    the island. A few nights in, the generator in the cottage explodes, injuring Martin's arm and leaving them without electricity. They use the CB radio...
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  • Call sign (redirect from Radio call sign)
    international regulations. In addition, in some countries lawful unlicensed low-power personal and broadcast radio signals (Citizen's Band(CB), Part 15 or ISM bands)...
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  • events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the United Kingdom. There is evidence that LGBT activity in the United...
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    to unlicensed personal radio services (such as CB radio, FRS, and PMR446), which require type-approved equipment restricted in mode, range, and power...
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  • suffixes, even where the base call sign is a CBC/Radio-Canada O&O in pattern "CB(insert third letter)T", "CB(insert third letter)ET" or "CB(insert third letter)FT"...
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    (Birmingham CB, Coventry CB, Solihull CB, Sutton Coldfield MB and Meriden RD), Staffordshire (Wolverhampton CB, Walsall CB, West Bromwich CB, Dudley CB and Aldridge-Brownhills...
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    components. At its peak in 1999, Tandy operated over 8,000 RadioShack stores in the United States, Mexico, and under the Tandy name in The Netherlands, Belgium...
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  • ITU prefix (category Amateur radio call signs)
    the ITU prefix rules: Since 1936, it has used CB for its own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations, whereas Chile is officially assigned the CB prefix...
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    Leeds (redirect from Leeds, United Kingdom)
    is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city...
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  • two-way radios, in use by the armed forces, in civil aviation, police and fire dispatching systems, citizens' band radio (CB), and amateur radio. Voice...
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    available during the popularity height of CB radio in the 1970s. The first scanners often had between four and ten channels and required the purchase of a...
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  • introduced for the harmful impact from high frequency, Canada (CAN) CB-02 Radio Equipment ANSI/IEEE 1.2 mW/Cm for antennas 1800-2000 MHz range. Radio Communication...
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    broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by the BBC, then the British Broadcasting Company Ltd., as its general manager; in 1923 he became...
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    Jam sandwich (police car) (category Law enforcement in the United Kingdom)
    popularised on TV shows such as The Bill, The Sweeney and Minder; as well as spreading through the use of CB radio. The "jam sandwich" first came into...
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  • Telecommunications in the Falkland Islands includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Radio: Radio services provided by the public...
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    power limit for the other 26-28 MHz frequencies) but is shared with CB radio channel 23 and is not protected from interference from CB radio transmissions...
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  • own call signs. Call signs are allocated to ham radio stations in Barbados, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Many countries have specific conventions...
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    102.5 Radio Pembrokeshire, 97.1 Radio Carmarthenshire, 97.5 Scarlet FM and 106.3 Bridge FM in the T&CB portfolio. In 1999, Win 107.2 (later 107.2 Win...
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    Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson (category Eurovision Song Contest entrants for the United Kingdom)
    sing and dance. She worked in a C.B. Cochran show, and later joined the Three in Harmony singing group, which appeared in the revue Best Bib And Tucker...
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