Courier 23 Question

[danmcclain]

Someone asked me the question of why are some of the channels on the Courier 23's and the Courier Ranger
channel selector in the color green. To wit: channels 9-14 and 23 show green in the channel selector window and the rest are white. Does anyone know why this is???

 

[nomadradio]

The green channels were legal to chat with stations that had a different CB license and call sign.

The white channels were legal only for unit-to-unit contacts holding the same license.

Seriously.

This rule was supposed to cut down on "chit-chat", or using the CB for "hobby" communications. FCC said to get a ham license to do that.

Honest.

73

 

[Rwb]

The green channels were legal to chat with stations that had a different CB license and call sign.

The white channels were legal only for unit-to-unit contacts holding the same license.

Seriously.

This rule was supposed to cut down on "chit-chat", or using the CB for "hobby" communications. FCC said to get a ham license to do that.

Honest.

73

and its hard to get anybody to chitchat on 2 meters and 70 cm. interesting theory from fcc. but hey its the GUBBERMUNT

 

[guitar_199]

That is an interesting bit of info!!!! This made me go look at my JC Penney Pinto 23 Channel.... and it is the same color coding...and I never even thought about "why" it was that way. Thanks Nomad!

 

[Hurricane145]

That's going back a few years! That was before channel 9 was for emergency only communications. I am not sure when that started. Sometime in the mid 70s I guess.
I wonder why they picked 9 thru 14 and then also channel 23?