How do CB radios work?

Posted by katebrandon250 on October 12th, 2014

Citizen’s band radios or CB radios work much like a regular radio, with a difference though; in the case of citizen’s band radios, the communication can be initiated by two different CB radio owners, not like it happens with regular radios where listeners simply set the radio to their preferred channel and do not have the possibility to provide any feedback through their radio.

CB radios are two-way radio communications systems that feature speakers allowing listeners to hear what their interlocutor tells them, and also a microphone designed to allow them to transmit information to their interlocutor. In general, when a person wants to send a message by voice, he needs to press a transceiver switch. To allow the other person at the end of the line to transmit their own message, the sender needs to release the transceiver.

Citizen’s band radios are very similar to the systems used by dispatchers when they communicate with cab or truck drivers, or to the intercoms used in buildings. There has to be mentioned that only a certain person can transmit something at a certain time; no other person can send information when another person is transmitting. For anyone else to be able to transmit, the person that has previously sent a piece of information needs to release the transceiver switch.

Modern citizen’s band radios are equipped with all sorts of buttons that showcase more capabilities than this kind of radios had in the past. For example, they have LCD screens, automatic volume stabilisers, calling tone functions, external speaker jacks, instant channel programming and recall functions, and many others. In addition, they come with an extension cable, microphone hanger, remote speaker, mounting bracket, DC power cord and an antenna that allows users to get access to around 80 channels.

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Radio waves represent a technology that converts voice transmissions into modulations that can be detected and then deciphered by radio devices. In other words, the voice signal is perceived by the radio system, captured and then transformed into an electrical signal that presents various oscillations that are decoded by end radio systems and turned into an actual voice transmission, without altering the initial information.

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