I agree.. he truth is, if you are not an idiot none will ever care how much power you run on cb, especially from a mobile. it is one of this issues that so many hams get all uptight about, but I do not know a single ham who actually has a cb and an hf radio. they just turn their power down to what is necessary to make the contact they desire and call it good. I truly wish they would just give up and open the entire spectrum to us at full power and lets chase he trash off the “freehand” areas between cb and 10 meters. Back when the created cb, the ccc and the rest of the agencies were 100% bonehead stupid to even think that it would stay legal
I have never run “legal” cb and never intend to because i am not a jerk on the air and therefore will never have any issues with the handful of times I actually would are to use cb.
73 kb8nla
Michael Thurman
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On May 5, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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