heck, one of the radios i had, and shortly got rid of, a modified yaesu 
ft23r could pick up the cab channels and i am not sure why to this day the 
guy did this, he had it so you could broadcast on that channel..i didnt 
say anything but i did notice you could not only listen to all channels, 
but you could transmit on them too..
is this how some are or should this guy have been in trouble?


if  helen keller is alone in a forest and falls, does she make a sound?


On Tue, 16 May 2006, Colin McDonald wrote:

> something wrong with CB frequencies?
> Just cuz they're not hams doesn't mean they should automatically be blocked
> from general coverage receivers....
> Same reason many general coverage receivers have the 45-50MHZ band in
> them...not because there is much there, other then baby monitors and some
> older cordless phones but because its just part of the general coverage...
>
> regards
> Colin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:35 PM
> Subject: just an item of interest and an observation
>
>
>> Hi everyone, I have noticed that a lot of the radios I have gotten have
> the
>> CB channels as coverage.  I don't listen to them that much, and haven't
>> operated on CB for years, but I have noticed that with my DX-390 and my
> F6a,
>> and my scanners I have CB coverage.  I am just wondering why so many
> radios
>> have this?  I happened to tune by someone on the CB band this afternoon
> and
>> shall we say he was conducting himself in a way that the ham community
> would
>> frown on.
>>
>>
>