yep, it's illegal to knowingly seek out and talk to dx or distant stations 
on the designated north american citizens band frequencies IE 26.965 to 
27.405MHZ.
I read it once, but I forget exactly how they define distance.
I believe it actually might only mean outside of your own country.
there are also regulations surrounding antenna gain and types of 
antennas...your not supposed to use a directional antenna on the cb 
frequencies or exceed a certain EIRP...in canada anyway
of course, the band is very seldom regulated or regulations enforced unless 
there are complaints to industry canada, or the FCC in the US.
there is nothing you can do if your signal is being received by a dx 
station, as long as you don't knowingly try to contact that station.
again, it's also illegal to use more than 12W of transmitter power into the 
antenna on SSB on the cb frequencies and how many CB'ers actually adhere to 
that reg hi hi.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: The bands


> I got my first really good short wave receiver in 1966.
> It was a Halicrafter's SX100 and its upper limit was 34 MHZ but
> it would do pretty well up to 37 MHZ due to rather poor image
> rejection at the very high end.
>
> In 1966, the Sun was starting to wake up again after the
> preceeding minimum so I remember a number of Winter days with
> nothing but hiss and power line buzz above about 23 MHZ. One
> could usually hear some broadcasters above 15 meters and that
> was pretty much all.
>
> There were a few faint Sporadic E openings in which one
> could hear the CB stations on eleven meters, but it was the fact
> that you could always tell when ten was open to somewhere by
> checking eleven that really burned in to my brain. Here it is 44
> years later and I still do the same thing only the modern way. I
> have three CB channels programmed in to an ICR75 receiver. One
> is 27.025 which is CB Channel 6, 27.185 which is CB channel 19
> and sideband channel 38 because a lot of CBers hang out there
> and talk skip on sideband. Talking skip, by the way, is still
> illegal in the United States for the CB service but if there is
> even the slightest opening, you hear a bunch of them with their
> made-up call signs and rather odd speech mannerisms but it sure
> lets one know if ten meters should be open.
>
> CB Channel 6 is where a large number of AM stations with
> really biiiiiiiiiig linears appear to create their own
> ionosphere by brute force.
>
> Is talking skip illegal in Canada, also? When we have a
> big band opening, I hear loads of canadian stations doing the
> same things that their American brethren are doing here and I
> suspect that it is probably just as illegal in Canada as it is
> here.
>
> My wife even commented one time that what you hear on
> the ham bands is generally smarter and more well behaved. I have
> not played her some of the garbage that used to go on on twenty
> meters and on 80 late at night but I have told her about it and
> we both comment on what a waste of time it must be to get an
> amateur license and then spend days just being a total jerk.
>
> When I decide to kick back and see what's on, eleven
> meters is the first place I check and then I check ten if eleven
> was hopping. Another really good place to check is the repeater
> subband at the high end of ten. You would be amazed at times
> what is there.
>
> Several years ago during early November, I discovered a
> New York repeater which is part of a large system in New York
> state. That's nothing special except I picked it up at 2:30 in
> the morning here in Oklahoma. Reception was poor but the fact
> one could hear them at all was interesting.
>
> If you want to see if 6 is open, it is still worth
> checking the television channel frequencies between Channels 2
> and 6. Canada is supposed to go digital next year but Mexico is
> not scheduled to go digital until 2021 so we should hear lots of
> Spanish on those channels for years to come.
>
> There are lots of neat ways to know if the bands are
> open and you just never know when the higher bands may wake up
> and let in the whole world.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
> colin McDonald writes:
>> and yet there are still guys who will go on at great length about how
>> terrible HF is and to not even bother getting on the HF bands when 
>> they're
>> talking to new hams.