Citizens Band radio, or CBs, are gaining a following in El Paso and across the country. Survivalist TV shows such as "Doomsday Preppers" and "A Prepper's Paradise" show the importance of CB radio.

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt) was you could make phone calls using a “phone patch.” In the 1970s, calling someone from inside your parked ...

Citizen band radio, more commonly known as CB radio, was first developed in 1945, but took a while to reach the truck-driving masses. By 1958, the FCC had established the first regulations and 23 ...

Anyone of a certain age will remember the CB radio craze of the 1970s, when everybody wanted to get on the air and say “breaker 1-9.” That fad has passed, but the citizens band radio is still very ...

"Mastersergeantangry" has a chat room on wheels. No Internet connection required. Through the citizens band radio in his truck, his ears are always on. Known outside radio circles as John Appel, the ...

The car world's gone tech-crazy -- or is it the tech world that's gone car-crazy? -- with CES doing its best to feature more personal mobility pods than the Detroit auto show. But automakers and ...

‘Listen to this,” the Michigan State Police trooper told me as he turned on a CB radio mounted in his Plymouth Gran Fury police car in 1985. The cop was parking on the side of Interstate 96 outside of ...