CB Radio Research Articles

Houseboat

Houseboat Susan Heeger (bio) One summer, as part of his campaign to win their mother back, their dad took the three of them down the Sacramento River Delta on a houseboat. It was breezy on the water. Their craft, a thirty-five-foot, diesel-powered RiverCoaster, trailed smoke as they chopped along between banks of farm fields spread like quilts under a vast, bleached sky. Marshes rustled. Trees nuzzled isolated houses. "Look," Shelley said, "a horse." It stood in an empty meadow, as if helicoptered there. Dad, wearing a captain's hat with his usual beat-up combat boots and Bermudas, a cigar clamped in his teeth—like a man who'd boated all his life—throttled up, throttled back, maneuvering smoothly around a jug bobbing in a snarl of wire. The kids argued over beds—who got which one bolted atop each other on two walls of their floating motel. A miracle of efficiency, it offered everything they'd need for a week. Besides those sleeping berths—which were to be their one scrap of privacy apiece—they had a closet-size bathroom and an alcove kitchen Dad called the galley, crowded with bags from a Stockton market. A dinette with benches doubled as a lounge. On its Formica table, they'd laid out a deck of cards and Dad his Carefree Angler and Life on the Mississippi. He loved Twain, loved water and boats, had always promised to take Joey fishing—Joey, now ten. He whistled for quiet and assigned the bunks, which, anyway, Shelley thought, weren't worth fighting for. Each had a porthole and a cushion that would work, the boatyard manager had explained, for flotation, "just in case." Outside, there was a foredeck and a roof deck, where, this same manager (longhaired, tattooed, missing a pinkie) had promised, they could "sleep out under the stars." A CB radio ("emergency hooter") hung in the captain's nook beside the wheel, which was wood-spoked and buttoned in the middle by a horn. Dad tooted it as they chugged across the blue-glass stream, which, he informed them, was full of sturgeon and bass, seasonal salmon and shad. Was it the season? It wasn't. But the other fish ran all year, according to the Angler. Lizzie, the eldest, who'd brought a Delta wildlife guide so she'd know what she was looking at, said, "You shouldn't fish for fun, Pops. Only to eat. Otherwise it's cruel." Big, square sunglasses covered her eyes. Her straw-blond hair was straight like their mother's, her face red from sunlamp treatments. Tetracycline, also for [End Page 121] acne, had whittled down her appetite and she had almost no hips, plus long legs tapering to wide, flat feet—her only, besides her skin, bad feature, which she exaggerated, Shelley thought, by painting her toenails pink. "Oh, we'll eat 'em, Liz-Wiz," Dad assured her, "Miss Fish-and-Game Police." "Oh yeah," echoed Joey, "Miss Fish-Witch Stupid Hag-Face." "Easy, Joe." "Not me, Pa," Lizzie said. "Not me," Shelley echoed. They bumped fists. Six rivers converge on the Sacramento Delta, according to the brochure Shelley had picked up in the boatyard's shop. The water pours south a thousand miles to San Francisco, slowed by dams and islands, swirling past Gold Rush towns and marinas, narrowing here and there to quiet lakes called tules and loops and trickles that don't show up on maps. Where you decided to go depended on what you were "into," the boatyard manager had explained, ticking off on his three good fingers, Fishin? Swimmin? Watchin birds?, which drew attention to the stub. Dad had winked at Shelley (Who was this clown?) and taken a seat in the makeshift office of the shop, which sold gear and snacks and reeked of fuel oil and fish. Some scratchy, hidden speaker played "Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra. While the manager scribbled notes on a map, Shelley, Lizzie, and Joe sipped Cokes he'd all but forced Dad to buy ("Kids look thirsty") and Dad had called "cavities in a bottle" as he dug for pocket change. Fishnets draped the walls with...

A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on (Im)politeness Issues in the CB Radio Discourse of Polish Drivers

This paper has two major objectives. The first objective is to present the phenomenon of CB radio discourse of Polish drivers and discuss its main features. The second goal is to analyse two of these features from the angle of the (im)politeness issues, using the perspective of Relevance Theory. The first part of the paper is devoted to a general discussion of the phenomenon under scrutiny: the socio-cultural background of the CB radio discourse as well as its basic linguistic features are presented. In the second part of the paper, I discuss Escandell-Vidal’s approach to politeness within Relevance framework (Escandell-Vidal 2004) and integrate the model with the habitus-based definition of politeness (Bourdieu 1977; Watts 2003). The final part of the paper shows how the integrated approach can be used to examine two major aspects of the CB radio discourse: its conversational structure and the use of diminutives.

Walkie-Talkies, Wandering, and Sonic Intimacy

Walkie-Talkies, Wandering, and Sonic Intimacy

Understanding truck driver behavior with respect to cell phone use and vehicle operation

Distracted driving continues to pose threats to transportation safety as it impairs driver performance and increases crash risk. In recent years, cell phone use while driving has become the primary research interest regarding distracted driving. However, the majority of this research has focused on the prevalence and risks of such behavior in passenger car drivers and few have investigated its effect on the performance of drivers of large trucks. Due to the inherent job responsibilities, truck drivers are more susceptible to use a cell phone, or other communication devices (e.g., CB radio), while driving to coordinate delivery logistics. The purpose of this study is to further understand distracted driving in the context of large trucks by identifying the factors that contribute to large truck drivers’ decision to report using a cell phone while operating a commercial motor vehicle. Through survey data collected in 2017 from drivers of large trucks who either pick-up or deliver goods in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia), a random parameters binary logit model is used to identify these factors. Of the 515 respondents, 234 (45%) indicated that they use a cell phone while driving. Through the random parameters binary logit model, unobserved heterogeneity is captured, and specific driver behaviors, demographic, work, temporal, and management characteristics are found to affect the likelihood of truck drivers reporting to use their cell phone while driving. Of particular interest, are carrier management characteristics and safety training. Carriers who manage fatigue by imposing schedules to make it easier to take breaks result in a decrease in probability of drivers reporting cell phone use, while carriers who restrict the number of hours worked decreased the probability of reporting cell phone use for the majority of drivers. In addition, having participated in road safety driving resulted in a decrease in probability of reporting cell phone use for the majority of drivers. Such findings have the potential to aid government agencies and commercial motor vehicle carriers in understanding the factors influencing cell phone use while driving among truck drivers. Understanding these motives can aid in the development of programs and policy initiatives that are intended to mitigate distracted driving among truck drivers.

Time reservation system of customs clearance – Ebooking Truck

In recent years the Customs Service has been introducing several innovative electronic services (e-services) for clients (entrepreneurs, forwarders). One of the proposed solutions is the system of eBooking TRUCK, which enables clients electronic reservation of the date of customs for the trucks leaving Poland. The article presents basic information regarding this improvement, the aim of which is primarily shortening the time of truck spent on customs clearance (eliminating or reducing queues on the border crossings) and improving the work organisation of customs services. There is presented the concept of the eBooking TRUCK system, the premises of its implementing, the scope of data transmission by the entrepreneurs, the scope of handling notification by the customs officers, architecture of system and the ways of clients communication within the system (SMS, e-mail, CB radio, information panels, infokiosks). At the end, there is presented a description of implementing actions based on the pilot programme carried out from 5th October 2015 at Koroszczyn border crossing point (Customs Chamber in Biala Podlaska, Polish-Belarus border) and Grzechotki (Customs Chamber in Olsztyn, Polish-Russian border).

Językowy obraz wspólnoty komunikatywnej posługującej się socjolektem CB-radiowym

The subject of this paper is to determine the linguistic and cultural picture of communicative community of CB radio sociolect’s users, i.e. what image based on stereotypes and autostereotypes sociolect’s users create of themselves. The average CB radio user on the road is mainly perceived by the fluency of sociolectal vocabulary, gender, vehicle type and make, driving manner, place of living, origin and ethnic group. As a result (auto)stereotypical CB user is a complex construct consisting of several stereotypes and autostereotypes. The most prototypical CB radio user on the road is (tir driver) truck driver.

FireWatch: Creative Responses to Bushfire Catastrophes

FireWatch: Creative Responses to Bushfire Catastrophes

Driving Away from the New Deal: Independent Trucking and the Deregulatory State

Driving Away from the New Deal:Independent Trucking and the Deregulatory State Jeffrey P. Moran (bio) Shane Hamilton . Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xii + 305 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $29.95. Breaker 1-9, we've got us a new book on trucks, trucking, and truckers. In Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, Shane Hamilton makes the case for trucking's centrality not only to CB radio and country music, but to the modern nexus of agribusiness, virulent anti-statism, and consumer gratification. Independent, unregulated trucking, Hamilton argues, dissolved the old railroad monopolies, highlighted the limits of the New Deal approach to governmental regulation, weakened organized labor, and made possible the connection between modern agribusiness and consumers' tables. These are weighty changes to ascribe to a single technology, but Hamilton's clear prose and careful analysis bear the burden well. At the heart of Hamilton's thesis is the so-called "farm problem" of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Although Hamilton never quite comes out and defines the phrase, the farm problem was (and is) roughly this: farmers want high returns for their products, but consumers want to pay as little for them as possible. While the explosion in farm productivity and the growth of an urban consumer population would seem tailor-made for solving the problem, from the era of Populist revolt onward the two trends never fully meshed. The Great Depression was the critical moment for this farm problem. Farmers had done very well during the Great War, and in the 1920s they continued to invest in tractors and other heavy equipment to chase the lure of prosperity. In order to pay off their debts, they needed to cultivate still more land. The result was, in part, a boom in productivity, but this boom also caused agricultural prices to plummet, as productivity outstripped domestic and foreign demand; thus, the Depression hit farmers particularly hard. Initially, New Dealers vacillated between seeing this problem as one of underconsumption and viewing it as one of overproduction. As in other New Deal initiatives, the overproductionists soon won out, their victory exemplified [End Page 617] by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's notorious programs for killing six million hogs and plowing under one fourth of the Southern cotton crop—solving the problem of want amidst plenty by doing away with plenty, as Roosevelt's critics charged. After that initial shock, New Dealers tried to hold together a coalition of farmers and consumers with production limits and price supports, but with limited success in propping up farmers or feeding the hungry. Historians have also found that these programs led to greater agricultural consolidation, as large landowners found it more remunerative to kick sharecroppers and other laborers off their land in order to collect government subsidies for reducing production. For different reasons, New Deal attempts to regulate beef prices also generally failed, for the meatpackers strenuously evaded regulations; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for its part, was never fully invested in busting the "Beef Trust" in the first place. Most of the New Deal agricultural initiatives failed, Hamilton argues, because they ignored the major connection between overproducing farmers and underconsuming urbanites: transportation. While he denies that transportation technologies were determinative, Hamilton points out that railroads were almost the sole means of moving goods from the farm to the table, and thus all farm problems in the Depression era occurred within the framework of a "rail-bound nation" (p. 24). As the Populists had charged long before, the railroads were by nature monopolistic and thus wielded disproportionate power over the prices farmers paid to have their goods shipped to market. Further, railroad access helped determine which companies would succeed or fail. In certain cases, such as the beef industry, railway transportation heavily favored large companies that could afford the massive capital investments for stockyards and refrigerated railcars needed to do business by rail. This high barrier to entry fostered the development of an agricultural oligopoly, the so-called Beef Trust. Only when independent truckers became a force did this framework begin to crumble and to take down...

The chilling effects of network externalities

Conventional wisdom suggests that network effects should drive faster market growth due to the bandwagon effect. However, as we show, network externalities may also create an initial slowdown effect on growth because potential customers wait for early adopters, who provide them with more utility, before they adopt. In this study, we explore the financial implications of network externalities by taking the entire network process into account. Using an agent-based as well as an aggregate-level model, and separating network effects from word of mouth, we find that network externalities have a substantial chilling effect on the net present value associated with new products. This effect may occur not only in a competitive framework, such as a competing standards scenario, but also in the absence of competition. Drawing on the collective action literature in order to relate network effects to individual consumer threshold levels, we find that the chilling effect is stronger with a small variability in the threshold distribution, and is especially affected by the process early on in the product life cycle. We also find a “hockey stick” growth pattern by empirically examining the growth of fax machines, CB radios, CD players, DVD players, and cellular services.

Collect Calls

Collect Calls

Upside down: seasons among the Nunamiut

In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century's worth of innovations, from electricity and bush planes to snow machines and the Internet. Anthropologist Margaret B. Blackman has been doing summer fieldwork among the Nunamiut over a span of almost twenty years, an experience richly and movingly recounted in this book. A vivid description of the people and the life of Anaktuvuk Pass, the essays in Upside Down are also an absorbing meditation on the changes that Blackman herself underwent during her time there, most wrench-ingly the illness of her husband, a fellow anthropologist, and the breakup of their marriage. Throughout, Blackman reflects in unexpected and enlightening ways on the work of anthropology and the perspective of an anthropologist evermore invested in the lives of her subjects. Whether commenting on the effect of this place and its people on her personal life or describing the impact of progress on the Nunamiut - the CB radio, weekend nomadism, tourism, the Information Superhighway - her essays offer a unique and deeply evocative picture of an at once disappearing and evolving world. Margaret B. Blackman is a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Brockport.

Gender as a Factor in the Uptake and Use of ICTs on Family Farms in Southern Queensland, Australia

It is often suggested that farming women ’s increased access to technology, particularly information and communication technologies (ICTs), will increase their power on the farm and in related agribusiness activities. A study of the use of ICTs on family cotton farms in southern Queensland, Australia, sought to discover whether tools such as cellular phones, CB radios, computers, fax machines, and the telephone had gendered patterns of usage. An analysis of these patterns of usage, applying a well-known theory of the social construction of gender and technology, was carried out in the context of family cotton farms in Southern Queensland, Australia. The focus of the analysis was on the gender-based division of labor and on the power relations embodied in the usage of the technologies. The study found that access to such technologies did not result in appreciable changes in women ’s power, nor in changes to the established gender-based division of labor. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that Internet-based ICTs will deliver on their promises of women ’s empowerment, particularly in family farm contexts.

When is a Colony Not a Colony? England and the Isle of Man

Manx emancipation from English tutelage still falls short of independence. Island courts' and constitutionalists' efforts to reconcile the continuing role of Crown and Parliament with insular aspirations are typified by dicta of the Staff of Government Division in Crookall v Isle of Man Harbour Board and Re CB Radio Distributors. These cases suggest the Queen legislates for the Island as Lord of Man, successor to its former rulers; whether with Parliament or with Tynwald is secondary, so an Act of either body can repeal inconsistent Acts of the other. This article contests the claim of continuity between former rulers and the Kings of England, also the assumption that there can be no hierarchy between different legislative acts of the one ruler. This article argues that the law considers Man conquered by English arms in 1399, a continuity breach which gave King and Parliament unfettered law-making power as explained in Calvin's Case and Campbell v Hall. Centuries of government by royal tenants-in-chief do not affect the position after the surrender of their estate. Royal continuance of the former Lords' concessions to Tynwald, and Man's exclusion from the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, are both explicable on policy rather than constitutional grounds.

Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book ReviewFull AccessDamages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of MedicineSara C. Charles, M.D.Sara C. CharlesSearch for more papers by this author, M.D.Published Online:1 Aug 1998https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.8.1097AboutSectionsView EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail On February 25, 1983, Donna Fitzgerald drove to a coffee shop on Interstate 95 near Washington, D.C., to join a 27-year-old trucker, Tony Sabia, whom she had met some minutes earlier on her CB radio and whom she would soon marry. Thus begins the tale of an American tragedy that features a brain-injured surviving twin; parents overwhelmed by circumstances beyond the scope of most; an obstetrician-gynecologist sued for attending a mother she had never before seen; a hospital, insurance companies, mediators, and experts, each with their own interests; and a bevy of lawyers who come and go for almost a decade. It is a sad but gripping story repeated in myriad variations throughout our country. No one, however, has previously written the human story—and the stage on which the players perform—with such sensitivity, detail, and evenness.On April 1, 1984, the now Donna Sabia went into labor. She had been followed at the Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital clinic alternately by nurse-midwives and obstetricians. Dr. Maryellen Humes, who was on call that weekend and had never seen Donna, was awakened and informed by nurse-midwife Barbara McManamy that Donna's labor was progressing and that one twin was breech. After a storm of activity, the first baby, delivered by Barbara McManamy, overseen by Dr. Humes, was surprisingly limp, with an Apgar score of 1. As it was too late to do a caesarean, Dr. Humes quickly delivered the second twin, who was dead and already showing macerated skin. The surviving infant, Tony, eventually was found to have seizures, blindness, microcephaly, mental retardation, and feeding problems, and he required total care.Almost three years later, a lawsuit was filed in Bridgeport Superior Court containing eight pages of allegations against Norwalk Hospital, "its servants, agents, and employees," and Dr. Maryellen Humes.Barry Werth, a journalist and successful author, traces the progress of the case meticulously, using real names. He interviewed most of the participants, and he explored the thoughts they had about the experience at the time and in retrospect. For example, after Dr. Humes' insurer settled the suit against her out of court for $1.3 million, Michael Koskoff, the plaintiff's lead attorney, observed that "she wasn't responsible for the injury," that it occurred "through no fault of her own." He did not want Dr. Humes to evoke sympathy among the jurors, and he felt that with her out, the case was "cleaner" and had a more unified focus. Because the emphasis had shifted to the hospital's prenatal care, "she'd just have been in the way." Dr. Humes herself described the litigation as "the most difficult experience of my life."Anyone who has any affiliation with the health care system—practitioners and policy makers as well—should read Damages. It is an accurate, engrossing, and, unfortunately, true story of what can happen when unforeseen events occur. Few books have described as well the inefficiency, self-interest, and plain tragedy that the current malpractice system, which requires an accusation of fault, supports. It is the best argument yet for devising some other system for compensating negative events that occur in the health care sector.Dr. Charles is professor of psychiatry (emerita) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.by Barry Werth; New York City, Simon & Schuster, 400 pages, 1998, $25 FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 49Issue 8 August 1998Pages 1097-1097 Metrics History Published online 1 August 1998 Published in print 1 August 1998

Always Getting Ready-Upterrlainarluta: Yu'pik Eskimo Subsistence in Southwest Alaska.

In this remarkable book, James Barker follows the Yup'ik Eskimo of Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta through their year's cycle, beginning with spring seal hunting and ending with the winter dancing that celebrates life on the land. Striking black-and-white photographs and accompanying text capture a people alert to every opportunity. Whether they are waiting for the weather to clear for hunting or preparing testimony on the effects of oil exploration, they are, in the words of Yup'ik Agnes Kelly Bostrom, always getting ready. For the Yup'ik, the realities of life on the delta have underlined the practicality of their traditional culture. Living in a difficult climate, far from job centers and sources of supplies, the Yup'ik still rely on the land for food and materials. Their fishing, sealing, trapping, and berry picking are not sentimental reminders of a bygone way of life. They are practical necessities, bringing in as much as a thousand pounds of food per capita in some villages. A flexible and innovative people, the Yup'ik have been quick to integrate snow machines, CB radios, and other items they find useful into their lifestyle. They have revived the traditions of potlatches and dances-banned for years by missionaries-composing new songs that comment on snow machine joyrides, bingo games, and basketball. James Barker has photographed the people of the delta for eighteen years. Like his Yup'ik friends and subjects, he has been ready at a moment's notice to participate in whale hunts, trapping trips, steam baths, and the annual exodus to fishcamp, one of the highlights of the year. The photographs and conversations he presents in this book are neither elegies nor souvenirs, but something more basic and more valuable. When there is a moment of real connection or understanding, he writes of his Yup'ik companions, then perhaps because we are different, I have a sense of catching something universal.

The Visit

The Visit by Howard Hull 13 I went back home last week. It was time. I had waited over a year. She died in April, and it is now August. He has stayed there by himself all of that time. I didn't really want to go, but I wanted to see him, to see how he was. It's a miserable place much of the time, hot and humid in the summer, and frigid in the winter. The drive up the long stretch of Interstate between Knoxville and Bristol was routine. Since my CB radio was broken, I rode the back door of an "eighteen wheeler" with the words HAGERSTOWN FURNITURE printed on the sides. He never got below sixtyfive . I turned off at the Abingdon exit, and started up Highway 19 to Bluefield* It is typical foothills country with bald knobs speckled with a tree here and there. Most of the low hills except for a few grazing sheep, and a house or two look as if they had been swept clean with a giant broom. They are old hills but have a timeless look about them. I stopped in Lebanon and had lunch at the Carriage House Restaurant. It had changed since the last time I had eaten there. It's now cafeteria style, and the food is not as good. By two o'clock in the afternoon I had reached Bluefield, and begun the tedious trip down Route 52, the last leg of the journey. It is winding and narrow, too narrow, as if the state begrudged every inch of asphalt added to it three years ago in an effort to make it tolerate the large trucks hauling coal up and down the mountains. It is no more than thirty-five miles from Bluefield to the homeplace near Welch, but it never fails to require at least an hour of driving time to get there. It is almost maddening . Each time I return, I find myself being washed in a shower of fine black mist rising from the surface of the dusty road, or worse yet, driving behind a native wearing a baseball style cap two sizes too large, cocked to one side as he chews and spits tobacco juice. He has never driven over forty miles per hour in his entire life, and never will. Down through Elkhorn, Kyle, Maitland, Big Four, Keystone, Kimball, Superior, Welch, and Junior Poca. Each beginning where the other leaves off, all with posted speed limits of twenty-five miles per hour. When I was growing up I never thought anything about a place being call Junior Poca, but now, it strikes me as being a very odd name for a town. Even in summer, the drive through McDowell County is not a pleasant one anymore. Although the hills and valleys are green, they are covered with rows of neglected nondescript coal company houses with an occasional mobile home surrounded by assorted dead automobiles. The few streams that run through the valley towns are still sluggish with coal dust. Low hanging tree limbs serve as flagpoles for paper and rags washed up when the streams were swollen by spring rains. It is a depressing sight. By three o'clock in the afternoon, I was almost there. As I left the two-lane highway, to drive up the dirt road that I had walked so many years ago, I looked toward the house, almost hidden by trees. I wondered if he would be on the porch. He was, but the place where my mother used to stand was empty. As I stepped from the shiny new car, I felt out of place. It was tobacco road, moved to West Virginia. Growing up, I had not loved it or hated it or anything else. I had just lived there because I didn't live anywhere else. Now it was different, I had lived somewhere else for thirty years. I had come to realize that I had grown up materially poor, but not spiritually or morally, and I guess that is what is important after all. As I walked up the weatherbeaten steps he smiled and said, "Slipped up on me—got here...

CB'ers and Cibistes: The Development and Impact of CB Radio in France

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 19, Issue 4 p. 145-154 CB'ers and Cibistes: The Development and Impact of CB Radio in France André Prévos, André Prévos André Prévos is Assistant Professor of French on the Worthington Scranton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University.Search for more papers by this author André Prévos, André Prévos André Prévos is Assistant Professor of French on the Worthington Scranton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University.Search for more papers by this author First published: Spring 1986 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1986.1904_145.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume19, Issue4Spring 1986Pages 145-154 RelatedInformation

Back burner

January: Special couriers are des‐patched from the Central Office of Information with the Folio edition of the Works of George Orwell. Book Marketing Council special promotion for National Book Sale is 101 answers to 1001 questions (Guinless Superlatives). Management buy‐out of British National Bibliography is followed by an agreed takeover of The Standard Book Numbering Agency Ltd. Avon County equips mobile libraries with CB radio. Aslib Marketing Group buys European rights in new personal computer for information managers, the Avocado. In a draughty ceremony at Walton Corner, Maurice Line is given the freedom of Thorp Arch Industrial Estate, and invested with a Gannex raincoat. Task Force to consider LA insignia merchandising operation meets at offices of Touche Ross. Unusual weather conditions at Heathrow delay departure of Royal Party for Trinidad and Tobago.

FCC policy on CB radio: Impact on consumer decision making

A consumer decision making model was created and tested in research sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC was considering a series of policy changes with regard to equipment and rules of operation. Discriminant and regression statistical results were combined into a simulation model which projected the impact of the proposed policy changes.

Emi Shielding Through Conductive Plastics

Abstract Electromagnetic interference (EMI) received increasing amounts of press in the past few months, and will continue to do so in the future. Regulatory agencies in the United States have begun to come down hard on manufacturers of home computers and video games which link to television sets. These units, like the early CB radios, are adding additional electronic noise to the environmerit and interfering with sensitive electronics. Other forms of EMI are generated from natural sources, such as precipitation static, lightning storms, and solar flares. These natural sources, coupled with the largest source of EMI, legally operating transmitters which happen to operate in the range in which unintended receivers are susceptible, combine to form the “polution problem of the 80s”.