But what do rats really smell like anyway? Hope I never find out!
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On 6/6/2015 3:46 AM, Colin McDonald wrote:
> well yeah, it's a cb radio, just one that has been made to put out high
> power, well beyond the legal limit along with other options, that if used,
> on the alocated citizens band, would be illegal.
> Glenn, you can find used HF rigs with 10M on board for less than a couple
> hundred bucks at flea markets and on qth.com eham.net and ebay.
> If you want to talk to your CB friends, simply use a cb radio to do so.
> But using a cb radio that happens to have 10M 28/29.69MHZ capability is not
> ethical or really in the ham spirit if you will.
> But, like steve says, it's a free country, do what you want...but asking for
> advice and help from this list on CB radios etc will get you strong opinions
> on the matter.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 12:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: I smell a rat
>
> Well when I read the reviews on this galaxy dx98, they are all using it in
> the 27-28 MHZ band, rather than in the 28-29 mhz band where the web
> discribes its working frequency band.
>
> That means there is an unspoken agreement to make this radio work where it
> is intended to work.  That is illeagally in the citizen's band.
>
> You understand when each and everyone of us deffends the dignity and
> professionalism of our hobby, respects that we earned the right to use our
> privilledges, that we resent the damage done to the radio communications
> hobby by CB operators.  They need nothing but a radio, and often get us
> blamed for their interferrence actions.  You can't run more than 2.5 watts
> of audio on 5 watts of carrier.  The rest is distortion.
>
> Many of us got our start on CB, but we decided their has to be more.
>
>
>
> You can't become a code operator with this radio, there is no access for
> didgital communications, and it runs a band that will be dead for 7 years.
>
> You won't talk to anybody and you won't hear anybody.
>
> That is at least in the 28-29 MHZ amateur radio band.
>
>
>
> With what you'll get out of that, you'd be better off with a tmv-71 and
> stick to vhf-uhf.
>
> At least then you'll have somebody to talk to.
>
>
>
> Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
>
>