Introducing the Breakers Yard

A new CB Radio website called thebreakersyard.com was launched this week and I wanted to share the news with you first.  With the reemergence of CB Radio as a hobby first made popular in the early Eighties, more and more people are rediscovering CB Radio and regular events around the country as well as the growth of Facebook pages and YouTube channels on the internet is attracting increasing numbers of people to it as an interest.

Following the legalisation of the FM frequencies in the UK, the CB Radio craze took hold for a number of years but eventually feel out of favour caused by the advent of the Internet and the development of the mobile phone.  The airwaves began to get a bad press because of the misuse of the channels and the sale and use of CB Radios fell sharply through the 90's and was all but forgotten as the new Millennium approached.
CB Radio was made licence free in the late 1990s and then in 2014 the AM and SSB Modes were made legal which created the opportunity for manufacturers of  two way radios to produce a range of more modern CB Radios which cover several 'bands' and can produce more power which allows them to have a far greater range than their 1980's counterparts.

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