W3LAP: Not harming us? Indeed they are. Here's how:
-CBers causing RFI/TVI in residential neighborhoods. Ham applies for permit
to erect a tower and is denied because the neighbors, who have experienced
this RFI/TVI for years, all show up at the zoning board hearing and protest
"enough is enough" based on their bad experiences. Ham gets denied his
tower. (This isn't a dream, this happens daily throughout the U.S. -- many
documented cases.)
-CBers become dissatisfied with their measly 40 channel allocations and
begin spreading out, or "freebanding" as they call it, on to 10m and 12m
amateur bands, rendering those bands virtually useless in some areas. I
hear it every single day, hundreds of examples per day, this becomes
thousands if the band's really open.
There probably isn't an amateur active on 10m and 12m anywhere in the world
who isn't aware of this bad and growing problem. If all the CBers ran their
legal power limit, the problem would still exist, but it wouldn't be quite
as loud. Since so many are running amplifiers, it's worse.
WB2WIK/6
> Jim Strohm
> Please just keep your windows buttoned up at 902 SAVANNA LN and leave well
> enough alone. Where did you get your start - CB band. YES. Those guys and
> girls
> on the cb band are not harming you in the least. The world would be a
> better
> world if people like yourself wasn't continually looking for fault.
> My-2-cents-worth.
> --
> Jim Thompson - w3lap
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> Jim Strohm wrote:
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> > "Roger D. Johnson" <n1rj@pivot.net> says --
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> > > I've noticed a bunch of obvious CB amps for auction on
> > >e-Bay. I've been going through the FCC regs trying to
> > >find an easy way for a non-ham to tell the difference
> > >between a legal "ham" amp and one of the illegal "CB"
> > >types.
> > > Since 28 April 1978, amps have to be "type accepted"
> > >(the old term for certificated). My Drake L-7 just has
> > >a sticker saying that it's type accepted. Do later amps
> > >have an FCC ID number? Some of my gear has the FCC ID
> > >number some don't. What section of the regs determines
> > >which equipment is required to have the number? I can
> > >find all kinds of info on applying for the number, what
> > >tests the gear must pass, etc.
> >
> > I've seen some post-1978 CB amps bearing an obviously bogus label
> stating
> > "Certified according to FCC regulations effective 28 April 1978" or
> > something like that. Right now I don't have anything of that vintage in
> > the shack that's still pristine enough to have the label affixed.
> >
> > If you slide a T81-series Mitrek through a bandsaw, you get a dandy 100+
> > watt HF amp that'll drive to full output on a few hundred milliwatts.
> >
> > If you get a label printer, you can type "FCC Type Accepted" and print a
> > type acceptance label (at your own risk -- use of such a label is a
> > specific and flagrant violation). Just don't use the yellow label tape
> > with the smiley faces, okay?
> >
> > And -- I saw those amps on ebay. Usually I'll file a complaint if the
> item
> > shows up on a search for CB linear, AND the description says it was used
> on
> > 11, or is described as suitable for same. But the last time I looked,
> > there were so many chicken-choker amps on ebay that I just gave up.
> >
> > Jim N6OTQ
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