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Chop, UNCERTIFIED EQUIPMENT. That is the thing that could've backfired on you. As a licensed ham, YOU are responsible to KNOW the rules of the service and Part 97. You may NOT use your amateur radio on ANY other service. PERIOD. That includes MURS, FRS, Police, Fire, Business Band, Rescue...

Ummmmm........Isn't this backwards? :mellow: A state can pass laws that either parallel or equal to Federal law, but they cannot PREEMPT Federal laws----which is why they can't regulate radio. Since radio does cross state lines (RF is regulated by the Federal government in the form of FCC)...

That's one of the reasons that FCC is so ineffective these days. They replaced ELECTRONICS Technicians with POLI-ticians! :thumbdown: CWM

We sent out some Packet on 28.085 to see if anyone was around and a couple of truckers just started raising you-know-what because they couldn't communicate. They kept talking (or trying to) about that *&^%$#@ "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-up, tweeeeeeeeedle, tweeeeeeeeedle, tweeeeeedle" that they...

You CAN also just transmit right over the TOP of them using the appropriate mode.:whistle: It will create havoc with the interlopers---especially if they are trying to use AM and you send out some Pactor. Nope, they DO NOT get "protection" from interference because they are not licensed and, as...

No its NOT a "bad" analogy! It illustrates the REASON for all laws and regulations. Whether they are perfect or not, the reason for them is to protect citizens from harm, damage, or loss whether it be a piece of tangible property or an IN-tangible one like a "frequency". I never SAID frequencies...

More often than not, it is done by one or two hams instead of this huge group of people mobilizing to go "hunt' a bootlegger station. With the truckers (who have been one of the worst about straying up into 10 Meters), sometimes they get caught because the hams simply listen or scan 28 MHZ while...

What you are going to run into is an FCC CERTIFICATION issue. Let's talk only about the CB/VHF/UHF thing. Generally speaking, (and I am assuming you are in the US as laws are different in different countries) you CANNOT LEGALLY get or operate a ONE radio-does-all kind of setup. Sure, there can...

"An 8 y/o can't use a ham radio" ?????????????? Are you even READING this in the thread? I SAID, "I just got thru talking with AN 8 Year Old on 75 Meters. " Funny. He's been licensed since AGE 6!!! The "elistist" (as you call it) didn't prevent HIM from getting the ticket. There is NO age limit...

I would simply refer you back to CB. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEE, HOOOOOOOOWLLLLLLLLL, ROOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR! All caused by the actions of the users. More POWAH, MO POWAH, BIGGER AMP, MO WATTS! ALL someone has to do is take a little test. It ain't perfect, but it is to (hopefully) promote SAFETY...

UMMMMMM..........you might have caught the part of the sentence where I said, "or malfunctions"..........which is any correction needed. People CAN make change out of a cigar box if needed(Or they USED to) Today, they have to close the store. In those "old" days, they actually TAUGHT kids to...

And did I NOT TELL YOU I WAS EXAGGERATING IN ORDER TO MAKE A POINT? Some of us are WAAAAAAY too sensitive, cannot STAND ANY criticism whatsoever and quickly run to the windows (QUICK! The posse is coming!!!!!!!!!) to defend the slightest perceived put-down. There are some in ham radio that...

:crying:It's already available----a 35 or 50 question test and VOILA! As to the testing? There IS good reason for IT, too. While not perfect, it is designed to create a more organized, more stable, and more useful radio service as well as being a hobby. Without that testing, it would...

The 718 was the very one I was going to mention! For not much more $$ you can get a NEW radio and buy an Astron PS and have a WARRANTY to boot. In its day the 757 was a good radio & I had a complete 757 station back in the 80's. Sold it for the reasons everybody has mentioned: its AGE, and I...

Sorry, but FCC can't "take" the 10 Meter band. There is a pesky ITU treaty the the US signed. Sure, they could prevent amateurs from using it, but because it is reserved for use by treaty, they couldn't just re-assigned it in the US for something else. Leastwise, that's the way I understand...

Doc, I hear you. But being put in that sort of situation would only ENRAGE me to the point that I would go after the local 2-digit IQ "law" types in the Federal courts where it belongs. Their "rulings" would be thrown out, and, yes, I would spend the money to show them just what a-holes they...

"you tune your antenna by trimming coax!" (with certain exceptions, it's biggest myth and bit of horse---- ever to be born on CB! That's where it came from and that's where it lives in perpetuity!!!)

This is where I found an example of individual "licensee". Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Jean White ) File No. EB-09-DV-0027 Licensee of Citizens Band Radio Service Station ) Rapid City, South Dakota ) NOV No. V200932800006 ) ) ) )...

IF we weren't "licensees" then we could tell FCC to take a flying leap; we aren't subject to Part 95! Last I heard, they're popping CBers right and left down in Florida right now, some of them who must've felt they "weren't licensees"!:lol:

Go read the rules! They allude to it in their "civilian" interpretation of Part 95. You might not think so, but we all are still "licensees" under Part 95, just as hams are "licensees" under Part 97. I didn't just make this up. Why don't you call them and tell them you aren't subject to Part 95...