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I have a question. If it has to do with the band switches why is the HTX-10 legal if it is just because of the band switch ? I think a lot has to do with how easy it is to modify.

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How did these "come up" in your conversation ???

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"Cobra" is a very marketable name brand. That's all.

It kind of made me sick to see that POS on the shelf.

I see for the right price, riley and his gang of hoodlums can be paid off, or made to grab their ankles just like the rest...only it's not CC paying the ticket.

Because it came up in the conversation with Mr. Brock.

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The HTX 10 doesn't have "band" switches and is a dedicated, TRUE 10 Meter radio. It, too, has no "channel" indicators. Also it can't be easily modified because Radio Shack had the sense to MAKE it that way. When it first came out, I snickered to high heaven at all the forums and questions about "How can I modify my HTX10 for extra channels". It took a long time for someone to figure out how to do it :twisted: and I thought that was great. Radios in the US are illegal simply because and if FCC says so. And if they put it on a "hit" list, it is because it doesn't meet technical or spectral standards.

Cobra is putting the 150 and 200 in all major retailers. All of their direct buyers will most likely be offering these for sale. And yes they have documentation to provide on legalities. I believe mr bandaidkit and cwmorse get a law degree they can dispute them.

I don't insult posters' handles here. If you have a gripe with me, bring it out like an ADULT; don't play foolish games. If you don't agree with what I write, bring it out on that level and we can get right to it.

I'm questioning this business decision to sell amateur radios as a commercial market decision. There are not that many potential customers for an anatuer radio in the marketplace. 600,000 names in the computer. Too few for a big business like Circuit City to make any dent in their businesses. And yes, I question the legal status of the radios, but that's the FCC's concern, not mine. Whatever the FCC decides on these things is fine by me. If they truely ARE ham radios as the FCC may says, fine.

Do the sales people even know what those radios actually do? They'll most likely be given a cheat sheet to memorize and half it it will be a mystery to them. Amateur radio and CB are going to become interchangable in the sales staff's minds. Trust me. I've seen people who confuse the two many times.

Those are facts. Dispute the facts. Diapute the business logic. Don't make insults. To do that is juvenile. Should I treat you like a juvenile? If that's how you wish to act, I'll be happy to treat you as one. I've got 17 long, dreary years of work in the juvenile justice system here. Trust me, you don't want me treating you like a juvenile lawbreaker.

I've learned a lot of law on this job and how law works and why it is set up the way it is. If a Federal agency decides that certain items are not legal, then all items with similar contructions are also not legal by precedent and need clearence from the agency. That is way it is.

I don't have the time to sit and argue with people that have nothing else to do. Big Business will sell anything to make a buck.

I know what you're saying Bandaid. That if CBer's weren't targeted also that the market would be small, yet Yaesu and Kenwood and Icom face the same issue for sales to the same 600,000.Cber's are also buying those rigs also.I hear a lot of them on SSB for CB. They are also designed to modify easily for 11 meter Transmit.

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I know at R&L they said atlast 2 or 3 times a week they sell a High Dollar HF Rig to someone who is buying it for CB. Asking for mod info which R&L does not give out. I was their one day and talk to couple sales guy they said the owner asks cbers if they are gonna spend $2k or $3k on a radio why do they want to talk on CB with it? They can't really give him a answer other than they saw someone else doing it. American people are followers.

Just courious, did you bring them up to him ?

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