Citizen's Band Radio - Google News for Tuesday 18 June 2013

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Honda Gold Wing Motorcyclists Enjoy Better Radio Sound Quality with New
CB ... - PR Newswire (press release)

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:36 AM PDT
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Honda Gold Wing Motorcyclists Enjoy Better Radio Sound Quality with New
CB ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The adapter is a response to Wing owners who wanted to upgrade their bikes
current audio by replacing it with a MotoChello system, but still wished to
use the CB radio previously installed on the Gold Wing to connect with
their groups. The new adapter ...

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Star Wars Rally Mercury is a long way from Tatooine - AutoWeek

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:56 PM PDT
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Star Wars Rally Mercury is a long way from Tatooine
AutoWeek
(Rest in peace, Porkins.) Thats the kind of thinking that earns you Rebel
Alliance medals, unless youre Chewbacca. The CB radio is included and is
capable of operating an external speaker; we suggest playing John Williams
scores on repeat and ...



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Technology exhibit among new features at Fulton County Museum -
Gloversville Leader-Herald

Posted: 16 Jun 2013 09:28 PM PDT
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Technology exhibit among new features at Fulton County Museum
Gloversville Leader-Herald
Among the oddities in the room include an exhibit dedicated to the nearly
lost art of CB Radio communication. The exhibit shows how the Adirondack CB
Club thrived during the 1970s and 1980s, its members sending each other
special postcards featuring ...



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Windows Phone Support Planned for Zello Push to Talk Application - TruTower

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 06:58 PM PDT
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Windows Phone Support Planned for Zello Push to Talk Application
TruTower
The application is similar to Voxer and Heytell, but has a unique “channel”
feature that turns it into a kind of app-based, wide-reaching CB radio or
walkie-talkie, allowing up to a whopping 300 participants to group chat in
real-time. The app also has ...

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The spoken word may be a thing of the past - Bluff Country Reader

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 06:14 AM PDT
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The spoken word may be a thing of the past
Bluff Country Reader
I noticed that people who were usually reticent about talking to strangers
became quite vocal and chatty when doing it via a CB radio. Even though
they were talking, it was not face-to-face, and they could remain
anonymous. People chose a CB "handle ...



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Cabaret Voltaire Line Up New Re-Issues - Clash Magazine

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 05:52 AM PDT
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Clash Magazine
Cabaret Voltaire Line Up New Re-Issues
Clash Magazine
Its popularity now dimmed, CB radio was a kind of exceptionally slow
version of Twitter coughed up by the 80s. Cabaret Voltaire lynchpin Richard
H Kirk: "we were thinking about doing a pirate radio at that time, which
never happened, but buried in the ...