Citizens Band radio has been around a long time.  It evolved from a bulky short-range UHF radio service created in the late 1940s to a 27 MHz band carved out of the amateur radio 11 meter band in the late 1950s.  It morphed into a fortified CB service in 1977 when the number of channels expanded from 23 to 40.

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