Walkie Talkie Americana born in the USA

in blockietalkie •  7 years ago 

Walkie Talkie made famous with this 1975 Song Convoy

The Citizens’ Band (CB) Radio goes back further than most people probably realize. In the late Forties, the U.S. government made space in the 27 MHz range available for radio enthusiasts and businesses to use, generally without a license. That frequency literally became the “citizens’ band.” By law, CB radios are limited to four watts of transmitter power, and thus have a useful range of about five miles. Many countries have allocated the 27 MHz range for similar purposes, so CB enthusiasm goes well beyond U.S. shores.

Were it not for the CB radio’s popularity with truckers, many Americans may never have learned of its existence. Then came the 1975 hit single “Convoy.” The country twanger of a song chronicled the formation of, and subsequent bad behavior of, a band of truckers traveling East through the U.S. The song’s lyrics—which are mostly spoken, not sung—are full of CB radio exchanges rich with the colorful lingo of the medium.

Shortly after the song was released, CB radio sales in the U.S. hit a brisk 7-million-unit annual pace. This, from a sales volume of just 10,000-15,000 units only a few months prior. Companies including Cobra, Midland, and Royce were cranking out CB radios as quickly as they could make them. By 1976, General Motors was offering a factory CB-radio option–usually listing for a cool $750, including an integrated tape deck.

The 1977 release of “Smokey and the Bandit” and the 1978 release of “Convoy” packed movie theaters and helped to fan the CB radio flames for a couple more years.

Like all fads, the CB radio craze has mostly come and gone. Today, the CB radio is mainly a tool of over-the-road truckers.

Source
The Daily Drive (http://blog.consumerguide.com/convoy-madness-12-classic-cb-radio-ads/)

Here, we have amassed a collection of 12 CB radio ads, most of which were seen first during the heart of the Citizens’ Band craze. Included below are a few of our favorite bits of CB radio lingo—let us know how many of these vocabulary words and phrases you remember.

Mama Bear: Female law-enforcement officer

Bear in the Air: Law-enforcement helicopter or plane

Polar Bear: Unmarked white law-enforcement vehicle

Bed Bugger: Moving-company truck

Black Eye: Broken headlamp

Reefer: Truck with refrigerator unit

Salt Shaker: Truck that spreads road salt

Road Pizza: Roadside animal carnage

Skins: Tires

K-Whopper: Kenworth tractor

Home 20: A driver’s hometown

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Did you have a Walkie Talkie or CB radio when you were growing up?

I think the Blockchain provides us with an opportunity to make The "Blockie Talkie" the Walkie Talkie for the Blockchain.

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Damn! I had no idea the history of the CB radio, or the influence the song had on it. Very interesting!

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yeah it took me a minuet to put all that together from the blog I found it on. I added the songs to make a better point of the story. It is an interesting story for sure. That is why we are building a Dapp that will work like a voice based walkie talkie. So with our Dapp it will run on the Steem Blockchain much like Dtube works only the replies will be with audio and the main post is also an audio file. Unlike a Walkie Talkie that has a limited range and is only live our Dapp will store the audio file on the ipfs and allow users to have a conversation on the blockchain. @herbertholmes thank you for the tiny vote I feel your pain I am always over voting my power is really low right now too.

In the opening shot of the Convoy it is at White Sands New Mexico just a few miles from where I live. So are most of the shots in that...