Music On The CB Radio

We've talked in previous posts about the annoying practices that often occur on the CB Radio that prevent others from using the channels and even back in the Eighties alongside the users of high powered amplifiers to stamp all over other everyone else's signals was and still is the playing of music.
Whilst this still continues to be the favoured way to completely 'block' a channel, in truth there was a slightly more legitimate reason for people wanting to play music over the CB Radio.  One has to think back to a time when it wasn't possible to set up a personal radio station such as is possible over the Internet nowadays.
Going back as far as Radio Caroline in the 1960's the desire for people to play their 'own' music for others to enjoy.  The process back then to set up your own CB Radio was difficult to say the least.  Getting hold of a transmitter was probably the most difficult aspect of the set up since these are the sort of thing you can pick up in your local shop.  Then having set up a transmitter you would need to find a frequency that wasn't already in use and have the ability to change the frequency that your transmitter was using which for most people would be quite a technical challenge back then.
The construction and erection of a big enough aerial would also present something of a challenge and then there would be the required studio equipment including Record Decks, microphones and sound mixers.

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