Well, michael, there are certainly some technically legal/regulatory things 
to be aware of.
However, if you get a radio that will transmit on 10M, and run that mobile, 
and also happen to have 11M in it, then it's easy enough to consider it a 
10M mobile radio...most good quality 11M mobile antennas will work through 
to the upper end of 10M without additional tuning.
I have a Ranger RCI2950 which works very well as a 10M radio...and it has a 
button on the front, called lock, that when pressed, puts the radio into the 
40 channel cb mode....still with 40W output on ssb and about 25 on am...but 
it also has an rf power control on the front so you can easily turn that 
control all the way counter clock wise and, wonder of wonders, it makes the 
radio put out exactly 4W am and 12W SSB....now how wierd is that one 
ahahahahaha.
Is it a legal CB, no, not for the average person, but if you have your ham 
license, you can legally own and use the radio on 10M...and if you happen to 
use it on the cb frequencies from time to time, who's going to make an issue 
out of it?
11m in canada, though there are regulatory standards, is not regulated 
anymore by industry Canada unless there are significant complaints, and even 
then, you have to send a letter and pay a fee for them to investigate any 
complaint of improper use on cb frequencies here.
As for compact, well, most of these so called export radios are not small 
really, being the size of large commercial mobile radios...some of the 
newest versions have removable face plates and so on...anytone the chinese 
brand, make a 10/11m mobile radio with all modes, 40w output on ssb and a 
removable control head for easier mounting options.  They are between $150 
and $200 on ebay.
and like I said, having a 10M mobile in the vehicle is nice from a ham 
perspective especially since 10m is so good right now.  Get yourself a 
wilson 1000 antenna and talk the world on 10M and 11M if you so choose lol.
I'm a little surprised 11m is still so popular and heavily used in NL.  It 
used to be here in AB as well, but all the transport guys have gone over to 
VHF FM and most of the old cb hobby crowd have gone to 2M and 80M.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 8:01 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re_compact high output 11M mobile

> Good point John.
> I never thought of that. I could be jeopardizing my amateur radio license 
> as the CB band is regulated to 4W A.M. and 12W SSB. LOL
> Probably forget that and just get a legal one. There's more CB activity 
> here in NL which was why I was looking at one.
>
> 73:
> Mike VO1AX