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I use a 10 meter radio and do take advantage of it when I run with another driver that has one to get away from the BS on the regular 40 channels.I find most people that do use these channels are respectful,professionals that know how to behave themselves in public unlike those on ch19 {for the most part}This is where [ch 19 etc...] some sort of enforcement and fines should be done to the over modulated,over powered,over echoed,reverbed,muffled,back round noised welfare telephone drawling bucket mouths that can't finish a statement without saying come on back morons.This is where the problem is so we should naturally expect them to go after the few that try to get away from it,good job.(SARCASIM)
You have 40--COUNT 'em--channels in which to "get away from 'it'"! You do NOT have an special dispensation to "steal" frequencies that belong to other users who have followed the L A W for the use of them. Those frequencies are ASSIGNED to other users. Tell me, I respectfully ask you, what makes YOU more "special" than those LEGAL users? If EVERY single group could decide for themselves which laws they will obey or not, we would be destroyed. Laws and regulations, within reason, are what make a nation and a society function.Originally Posted by mudawg
I don't get it.Our gov't. can find a couple guys talking on a CB in a country this big so they can fine them :?: :!: :?: :?: Yet they can't find a 6'8" Arab in a country 1\2 the size of Cal.I'm glad my country has its priorities straight,lets keep on dumping money into the most useless branch of the gov't.I use a 10 meter radio and do take advantage of it when I run with another driver that has one to get away from the BS on the regular 40 channels.I find most people that do use these channels are respectful,professionals that know how to behave themselves in public unlike those on ch19 {for the most part}This is where [ch 19 etc...] some sort of enforcement and fines should be done to the over modulated,over powered,over echoed,reverbed,muffled,back round noised welfare telephone drawling bucket mouths that can't finish a statement without saying come on back morons.This is where the problem is so we should naturally expect them to go after the few that try to get away from it,good job.(SARCASIM)
To those being INTERFERRED with, FCC IS doing its job, and they are to be applauded. People are SICK and TIRED of this thing about CB radio and its "outlaw" and "rebel" image that mandates that people somehow have a "right" (the user of a radio under US law is NOT a right; like driving, it is a privilege). One of the catch phrases, I believe, in the CB world is "stomping mudducks.
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Whether we like it or not, CB radio in the USA must, by law, have 40 channels, 4 watts of power, and the radios must be FCC-certified. Why?
It is all about interference and the ability of the most people to use CB for their own purposes by limiting power and the types of equipment that may be used. Let's face it: MOST of us are NOT radio technicians and are not capable of making the decision of which radio will meet the criteria above. We are appliance operators the same way we use a cookstove, or a refrigerator!
Indeed, there seems to be some peculiar effect where when we purchase a CB radio, we suddenly become "experts" in its use (NOT)! WE think we are, but we are not. That's why those FCC agents ALL have electronics, physics, engineering, and LAW degrees while WE drive trucks! That's not an insult, just the reason we are not qualified to decide for ourselves that "I am so special, and I have a "right" to use them 'extree' channels".When a driver flips those "band" switches on his ILLEGAL radio to talk on 'them 'ere 10 meter channels' he is a THIEF and can become subject to the SAME $10,000 fines as those base stations who recently got hit! :shock: No ifs ands or BUTS! I don't mean to be harsh, but the RIGHTFUL users of those frequencies have been working for a long time to get something done about this. Those same people studied and tested for their privileges AND many of them spend HOURS volunteering their time and radio resources in disaster relief such as Katrina. In fact, Amateur Radio is one of the FEW radio resources that WORKED while the authorities scratched their heads over "interoperability"! Same with those
so-called 'low channels"; they are assigned to others and if you talk there, you are subjecting yourself to some of those big fines---which, I might add, users assigned these frequencies have been actively attempting to get applied more often thru efforts in Congress and appointments of officials within FCC--one of which has done a LOT to go after illegal users of the 10 Meter band.
So, if you want to "get away", go to channel 11, or 30-----or SOMEWHERE besides those frequencies that BELONG to other people via license or authorization!
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