Galaxy DX939
Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by greenskyy87, Apr 27, 2008.
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the 939 is not illegal it is a standard 11 meter cb radio! A ham radio, 10 meter or other modified for 11 meter is illegal!
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All this hullabaloo about the rules and power output...
All I have to say about that is... Part 95 was written in the 1950s. The times have changed drastically since the 1950s, so is it not unreasonable to say Part 95 ought to be revised for modern times? 4 watts is outdated. -
Believe it or not, 4 watts can go a long ways, the problem is/was everyone wants to do a "one up on the next guy", and so that's why we have what we have today. Sort of like the speed limit....set it at 50 and everyone wants to go 55 or faster....so lets make it 60, now all the sudden they all want to go 65 or faster...should CB be more than 4 watts? Maybe now so....but even if it was moved to 100 watts, it wouldn't be long until 100 watts wasn't good enough and CBers would want more power....sad but true.
However the FCC is not going to change the 4 watt rule. In fact I'm almost willing to bet CB already has more power than some of the other non licensed required radio frequencies....for example MURS is limited to 2 watts, and I forgot what FRS was at, but I'm pretty sure it's under 2 watts.
If anything, CB IMO should have been moved from 27 MHz AM, to a VHF band, on FM....you'd have clearer reception, you could run shorter antennas and still have max range, etc...and you wouldn't have all the skywave propagation issues....yeah I know they tried this in '73 and it was shot down....they shoulda went with it..... -
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interesting...next question would be..."Why?" -
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