Uncrowding the Air

For Bumper Thumper, Foxy Lady and all the other 5 1/2 million "good buddies" out there in CB-radio country, there is good news from the Federal Communications Commission. Starting Jan. 1, the FCC will open 17 more channels (raising the total to 40) to the towering babel of the citizens, and may add still more in the future. New sets will be needed to use the added air waves, but for those who stick to their current models, traffic on the now crowded original 23 channels will probably be lightened--for a while.

CB industrialists foresee a big boost for their booming business. But one manufacturer, Carl Korn, president of Dynascan Corp., warns that life on the new channels may be lonely at first: "A bunch of people will jump into it immediately and then realize there's no one to talk to except other kooks like them."

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