GE 40 Channel Transceiver Handheld CB 3-5979

hey guys today for your viewing pleasure I bring you something that I got for Christmas that I think is pretty cool this is a General Electric Model 3 - 59 79 handheld CB radio and this was made in 1995 so it has a few years under its belt but uh this radio is in fact brand new I got it brand new in the box for Christmas there is someone on eBay that has a few of these brand new in the box new old stock that you can get for 40 bucks each and I think 65 bucks a pair so first of all what is CB radio now I'm sure most of you if not all of you have a basic understanding of what a CB radio is and what CB radio itself is but I'll give a brief explanation the citizens band radio service was begun in the 1940s by the FCC in the United States but it was on a different band and stuff and then it was in 1958 that the current CB radio band was initiated the citizens band radio service was basically