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
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