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MURS is in the 150 MHz region and the rest are in the 460 MHz area. Unfortunately, that means yet more radios in the cab... True - and this is a good approach on paper - but such an arrangement would be misused... Do what many do: Learn it - pass the test - then pitch the key afterwards...

We must have been classmates, then...pickins was slim indeed, eh? :P

Those laws and the definitions therein most certainly do apply - including rights of the accused to access court dockets, be present or respresented at evidentiary hearings, the right to a fair trial, appeals before an administrative law judge and so forth. You might be thinking of the NTIA...

There are several discrepancies here. First: Not true. The 26.7-27.2 MHz range was until 1957 jointly allocated to ISM (industrial, scientific, medical) service as primary users, and the amateur radio service as secondary users. The forerunner of 11M CB radio was the old Class A...

Enforcement is left up to the governmental telecommunications sectors of each ITU member country. In the U.S., the organization responsible for adherence to treatied band plans, the establishment of country-specific rules of usage and the enforcement of those rules is the FCC. Industry Canada...

There used to be a number of 10M nets in the Akron, OH area...one still hangs on (28.337). I keep a rig parked on 28.400 when I'm in the shack; that's the SSB calling frequency. Another scans the FM/repeater subband looking for activity while a third searches for signs of life in the...

That bit was meant for others - not yourself. You know...the ones who constantly harangue us with 'The Sky is Falling!' when it ain't. Put up a large (6-el+) widespaced Yagi on a tall tower and watch the band come alive via backscatter and a number of other esoteric modes that most don't...

Mine? Just some letters and a number that I drew out of a hat... :P

'Knowing who is doing it' doesn't fall under the same legal definition as aiding and abetting. Especially if the perpetrator(s) have no knowledge whatsoever that they're being monitored. A workable analogy would be that you knew Joe Blow was stealing cars; you heard it through the grapevine...

A year or so back, we had a local 11M op whose 25w rig put out a spur on 28.020 when the fundamental was on 27.165. The spur was ~20dB down from the fundamental and was quite noticeable. This condition resulted from an improperly-tuned mixer/IF/RF chain in the transmitter section of his rig...

Or an old Chinese proverb which cautions against looking for dragons under rocks...

Sporadic-E openings are another propagation method that can boost activity on 10M. There are two main seasonal 'peaks': One in the springtime, and another in the late fall. A popular - though unproven - theory holds that localized Es is directly tied to regional ionization as a result of...

Beetle: That aerial is a peanut whistle compared to the 5-el 80M Yagi constructed in JA-land. There was a link to it from a thread on the 'Zed some months back. Its performance was described as '...wonderful...'. That is, until the monster Godzilla comes into town and tangles with it...

Go read my reply in one of the other sections. To summarize...in two years, I've heard: One (1) conversation on 28.085 between two truckers. A lot of Spanish-speaking ops in the 28.300-28.350 area who may or may not be licensed amateurs. Regardless, they're not our (or the FCC's)...

A few thoughts: 1) CBers and freebanders are big boys. They know the stakes and what they'll lose -IF- they get caught. 2) What happens outside the ham bands is simply none of my concern. That is, unless someone is running an overly wide signal that generates interference to said bands...

Barefoot, with my Drake TR7 stuff: The MN75 With an L7 amp in line: The MN2700 I have a variety of Cubic antenna tuners to use with my Swan/Cubic gear. The ST1A, ST2A and ST2B will each handle 2KW with ease and work well with Cubic's 1500ZA (600w PEP) amps. The ST3A/B/C and the ST5 will...

All of you folks with general-coverage receivers may wish to park them on 13.556 LSB and give a listen for 'Omega One Radio'. The station - which is sitting smack-dab in the middle of the Part 15 segment of the 22M ISM band - is being heard across the U.S. Format is 24/7 music with an...

I hope the event will continue to attract enough buyers and sellers to maintain its current size. We went to a local 'fest yesterday; in past years one of the better ones in the area. Was held on a college campus near Youngstown and in years past there wasn't a free inch of lawn to be found...

Here in Ohio it's illegal to use any radio apparatus for purposes of coordinating a hunt. One hopes that whomever is steering folks into obtaining their amateur tickets so they may use a ham rig while hunting is also directing them to their local DNR regs regarding the matter. Carrying a...

You can still use your CB radio gear if you're a licensed ham...just stay within CH1-40, keep the power down to legal limits and use AM or SSB - no FM and CW. You won't have a problem. Both me and my XYL are licensed; we use CB quite a bit - for things such as bike-to-bike comms when we're...