Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 86, No. 191, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 1, 1975 Page: 27 of 52
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stopped a speeder, was reported
over Channel 9 — the emergency
channel used by CBers — by a pass-
ing truck driver in time to have the
lawman rushed to the hospital where
his life was saved.
"They've helped us on some cap-
tures of robbers and burglars and
when we put an auto description out
on the air, we have a lot more peo-
ple looking," added Matheson. "You
couldn't get enough policemen to do
a job like that."
"A great many citizens in the area
do have CB radios and it just facili-
tates our communications," Maj.
Nutter explained. "The first day or
two we had them installed, we got a
call on a stolen vehicle and were
a week-long CB Jamboree, described
as the largest of its kind in the U.S.
"The CB's major attraction is that
it's a way of making friends and
helping people," explained Isaac
McBee, president of the Okie Club
which has about 600 dues-paying
members. "You'll find a club in al-
most every town throughout the
state."
The 3s & 8s Club, named after a
common CBer term meaning "good
luck," maintains a fund of about $150
to help people in need.
During the Christmas season and
other high-crime periods, CBers co-
ordinate with Oklahoma City police
to "stake out" convenience stores,
service stations and other places tar-
geted by robbers. Members of the
Citizens Band Radio Patrol often
have duel memberships in other, fel-
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whereas we used to be 30 days be-
hind," said Federal Communications
Commission official Carl Pyron.
Pyron heads the regional FCC of-
fice in Dallas, whicb shares the
processing of 200,000 CB license ap-
plications a month, up from 4,000 a
month only two or three years ago.
By Pyron's estimate, Oklahoma
has 42,000 CB radio owners, com-
pared to 18,720 a year ago. That flg-
' ure doesn't include the hundreds
more who are using CBs illegally.
While illegal operators may be un-
der the notion that they're immune
to FCC dictate, they're another of
Pyron's problems. Periodically,
teams ot FCC agents come to Okla-
homa and use electronic directional
finders to zero in on unlicensed
broadcasters and violators of other
FCC rules, he said.
Of the 100 violations cited by the
FCC In Oklahoma this year, more
than 30 per cent were against people
who didn't have licenses, according
to Pyron. Those cases are turned
over to the U.S. Department of Jus-
tice for prosecution, while less seri-
ous offenses — like using over-pow-
ered quipment or broadcasting over
the 150-mile limit — are subject to
$50 fines by the FCC.
Another common violation has
been to use the CBs for "chit chat"
— small talk — but that rule was
stricken from FCC rules this month
since that was the very purpose for
which many CBers bought their ra-
dios. Also stricken was an unpopular
rule outlawing the use of "handles,"
or nicknames.
"In effect," said the FCC official,
"It legalizes what they have been
doing all along."
There's been no let up in the in-
crease of antennas sprouting up
from car tops and root, tops since
truck drivers popularized the CB
more than a year ago. Applications
for licenses from Oklahoma have
been coming in at the rate of 5,000 a
month, Pyron said.
While CBs have been in use by pri-
vate industry and a few radio buffs
for years, it didn't catch on in a
large way until truckers disclosed
tljpy were using CBs to keep track of
speed traps by Highway Patrol
troopers, an attempt to sidestop the
then-new 55 m.p.h. speed limits.
Feeling the CB's advantages far
outweigh its misuse, the Highway
Patrol no longer frowns on truckers
and other motorists -who broadcast
the location of "Smokey," a CBer
term for trooper.
As one Highway Patrol official
said, It doesn’t matter whether driv-
ers slow down because they sight a
trooper's radar or because they hear
a "Smokey" alert, just so long as
they slow down.
With the drastic increase in the
number of CB radios has come an
increase in the number of com-
plaints to the FCC. CBers are fre-
quently the cause of interference to
television reception and other air-
wave traffic. Of the 55,000 complaints
received by the FCC last year, about
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Popularity of citizens band radios
(CBs) in Oklahoma and elsewhere in
the past year has been nothing short
of staggering.
By the thousands, people are lay-
ing down $100 and more to install
CBs in their cars, businesses, farm
trucks, homes and even motorcy-
cles. .
While the CB boom has created
headaches for government paper patroT chiei"
shufflers swamped with license ap-
plications, law enforcement officials
generally welcome it as the greatest
thing since teletype machines.
There's no way of estimating how
many burglaries, car thefts, robber-
ies and assaults have been deterred
or prevented by CBers but, as one
lawman put it, the number is "sig-
nificant."
Police say the emergence of the
CB has been coupled with an emer-
gence of citizen participation, some-
thing police have long pleaded for to
help in their losing battle against
thugs.
Jrtost area police departments
have received some help from CBers
in the past year and the Oklahoma
City Police Department reports an
average of 10 to 15 calls a day from
citizens band operators. Citizens'
eye-witness accounts of crimes are
tunneled through a city-wide "moni-
tor" who then passes the message on
to police, said police dispatcher Lt.
Neill Griffith.
While police are enjoying their
new-foiind friends, government offi-
cials —r charged with licensing and
regulating air waves — are experi-
encing a nightmare. s
"We're three months .behind, , able to make an apprehension of a
suspect while driving the car."
Nutter hopes funds will soon be
available to install a CB in the sta-
tion so dispatchers can transmit CB
messages to officers more quickly.
The central figure in the CB net-
work is the "monitor" who keeps
tabs 24 hours a day of messages
over Channel 9, reserved by the FCC
as a nation-wide emergency channel.
Local merpbers of REACT (Radio
Emergency Associated Citizens
Team) spend a couple of hours each
month on a rotating basis, monitor-
ing calls from their home receivers.
The job might involve giving direc-
tions to lost travelers of notifying
firemen of a busted water hydrant,
but often the calls are a matter of
life and death, said REACT presi-
dent Roy Allen.
It's not only police who are enjoy-
ing the CB boom, but also radio
dealers, some of whom report more
business than they can handle.
"We've experienced a 200 per cent
increase in CB sales since last
year," said Del City salesman Dar-
rell Hatfield. "There's been an in-
crease in dealerships, but many are
folding because they can't get radi-
os."
Some of Hatfield's customers
have waited as long as nine months
for their CB to be delivered from the
factory and it's not uncommon to
have to wait four to six weeks for
antennas, he said.
Many of his clients who begin with
a simple $69 set catch the "CB bug"
and return fob sets that can cost as
much as $400 and home units that
may reach $900. Add another $13 to
$400 for antennas and a person can
easily have $2,000 invested in a car-
home system, be said.
Del City potice installed a CB at
their station after an alert motorist,
whose vehicle had a CB, notified po-
lice of a robbery and enabled them
to make a quick arrest.
"We had heard reports on how
good they were and how they ar»t
being used in departments In other
states/' said Norman police dis-
patcher Gene Waggoner, "so we de-
cided to give it a try. It's paid off for
us."
Waggoner, who said he has been
"sold" on the CB since one was in-
stalled at the police station eight
months ago, has also equipped his
home, car and wife's car with the
gadgets.
"I'd just as soon forget to bring
my gun to work as my CB," said
Waggoner.
While helping police is an Integral
part of many CBeni' lives, mostly
it's fellowship that brings them to-
gether. Clubs like the 3s & 8s in Mid-
west City, the Okie CB Club, the
Capitol Hill CB Club and as many
as 10 others in the area claim thou-
sands of members who spend hours
chatting with one another over the
air or discussing equipment at club-
sponsored picnics.
Last month, local clubs played
host to an estimated 10,000 people
who came from across the nation for
45i000 were against the citizens band
folks, the FCC said.
1 Several police departments in met-
ropoiitan Oklahoma City have
cashed in on the CB's popularity by
installing CBs in patrol cars and dis-
patch offices so that information on
traffic accidents, hold-ups and other
emergencies can be received more
quickly. The Department of Public
Safety thlr year purchased CB units
for its commissioner and Highway
"L... , and many troopers
have bought them with their own
money to install next to their re-
gular two-way radios.
Patrol Chief Jerry Matheson esti-
mated that 20 per cent of his patrol
cars now have CBs, all paid for at
the troopers' expense.
If troopers hadn't already seen the
value in the CB, they did when fel-
low trooper Allen Scherman, 25, was lowship-oriented CB clubs. •
gunned down by a Missouri man jn event of a crime, the radio
near El Reno last April. The shoot- patrol doesn't take any action on its
own but instead notifies police.
Oklahoma City police installed
their first two CB units during the
past two weeks to communicate with
residents of far southeast Oklahoma
City who, patrol commander J.C.
Nutter said, have poor telephone
service.
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