Originally Posted by
Desert Flower
Never heard of VHF CB. I think you mean UHF. And when I first started out with 27Mhz CB's in the early 70's it was necessary to have a license.DF.
I attended one of the public forums on CB licensing which would have been about 1978. The argument from the CB fraternity was that they wanted a licence for the individual rather than each transceiver.
Tailwheel is correct, it was a dismal unenforceable failure and everyone including the government lost interest in licences after about 2 years and it died a quiet, peaceful death.