NEW 10 Meter Radio

I've heard of this but never talked to anybody it actually happened to. I think you hit the nail on the head about the "cash cow" theory. I'm sure they have no concern whatsoever about making the airways more "pure" by removing the export radios.......they just want your money.

Maybe I'll get my ham ticket.......I read where a 10 year old kid got his extra class the other day......................

 

They nailed 2 of our Drivers. That's what made me get my Ham ticket. And getting it was very easy. And if I can get it anyone can. Now I am a Amateur Extra & a VE. It's not that hard. The youngest Ham that I know of was a 4 yr old girl. Youngest General class was 7. Mike, you can do it!

 

How does having a license make a difference? Using an export/10 meter radio on 11 meters is still against the part 95 rules, license or not, right?

 

I use to run a Ranger RCI-2950. Which is a 10 meter radio with push button memory channels. If needed I could've set it to show at 28.360mhz. Along with my License then I am using it as a Ham radio and not a CB set.

http://www.rigpix.com/cbfreeband/ranger_rci2950dx.htm

 

Sticky point of law but even that is not needed. You can receive anywhere just do not key it in front of them outside your ticket. If you have a license it does not matter what frequency it displays. If they ask you to key it out of band refuse and ask them if they are involved in a conspiracy to violate the rules. Also ask them to sign a statement verifying they have no intention of violating your civil rights.

 

Not so new. The sole function of LEO is to uphold the law. No where is it written their function is to protect anyone. There is a large difference between popular belief of the public and the reality. Try to sue for failure to protect. You will lose. Every time. You cannot sue a peace officer for either failing to protect you nor failing to maintain the peace. A doctor spends years in college learning to be a doctor. A technician spends years in study of things technical. Yet while the sole description of LEO is to uphold the law, they spend very little time in study of it. How else do you think trip and fall lawyers win so many cases. There is also a major difference between 'the rules' and 'the law'. If you have a valid ham ticket the Galaxy on your dash is not a violation of anything. Nor is using it to listen anywhere it will receive. Meaning if you are licensed it matters not what the display reads when anyone else sees it. It does matter where you transmit on it.

 

Sure wish we could all just get along, instead or quoting rules for pages and pages, I'm sure I'm wrong but I don't see the harm in making a few 'long distance calls' without a license. I made contact with a man in Ireland the other day, now that was neat.

 

You know Rat, the biggest drawback of the CB is the frequency it runs on and the mode of operation. I agree with you I wished CB were at a higher frequency and on FM so you could run a really short antenna and not have to encounter the skip, noise, electrical interference, etc. But instead they "stuck" the citizens band (CB) at 27 megahertz on the AM band, so that means you have to run a tall antenna and you have to endure the crap on AM. (think of listening to an AM radio station during a thunderstorm)

Of course they DID try to relocate CB to 220 MHz once back in 1973. Which had it have passed, you could have ran a MUCH shorter CB antenna and would have had some of the best range you could get on a typical semi truck. However that petition was shot down real quick.

And to think, when they came out with the first CB back in 1948 (I think it was), it didn't run at 27 MHz, but rather at 465 MHz...which is where those little hand held radios with the real inky dinky antennas...run at today...but they didn't have the technology back then to get them to work right, unlike now.

Sounds like you encountered heavy skip. On a typical day when skip isn't rolling, channel 19 is about the only thing active, and that's barely. The rest of the band will be dead. Now when skip rolls in then yes you can get something on all 40 if it's real heavy. That's just the nature of 11 meters. That's why they should have moved CB to a different frequency a long time ago. It would have alleviated some of the problems you have today.

 

I probably will. Problem now is time. Working two jobs doesn't give you much time for hobbies. At least now I'm thinking about it! That's more than I was doing a month ago.