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Subpart D--Citizens Band (CB) Radio Service

Sec. 95.410 (CB Rule 10) How much power may I use?

(a) Your CB station transmitter power output must not exceed the
following values under any conditions:

AM (A3)--4 watts (carrier power) SSB--12 watts (peak envelope power)

(b) If you need more information about the power rule, see the
technical rules in subpart E of part 95.
(c) Use of a transmitter which has carrier or peak envelope power in
excess of that authorized voids your authority to operate the station.


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Subpart D--Citizens Band (CB) Radio Service

Sec. 95.411 (CB Rule 11) May I use power amplifiers?

(a) You may not attach the following items (power amplifiers) to
your certificated CB transmitter in any way:
(1) External radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (sometimes called
linears or linear amplifiers); or
(2) Any other devices which, when used with a radio transmitter as a
signal source, are capable of amplifying the signal.
(b) There are no exceptions to this rule and use of a power
amplifier voids your authority to operate the station.
(c) The FCC will presume you have used a linear or other external RF
power amplifier if--

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(1) It is in your possession or on your premises; and
(2) There is other evidence that you have operated your CB station
with more power than allowed by CB Rule 10, Sec. 95.410.
(d) Paragraph (c) of this section does not apply if you hold a
license in another radio service which allows you to operate an external
RF power amplifier.

 

I was told my 959 had a galaxy face plate and everything else was made by ranger, not sure if that's good or bad but that's what the tech said.

 

That a good posabuility I would say. I know the RCI made alot of radios for differnt brands. I sure its a good radio for the price you gave for it.

Your ham radio guys are just cranky and want to argue about what truckdrivers do to the radios and get away with power wise. I like seeing them get cranky and argue myself. They say the rfx 75 sounds bad all the time but I gues they don't listen to the all day like we do in the trucks. Or maybe their ears are tuned to ham radio sound and our arent. All I know is that a cb radio moded up right sounds good to me. LOL I will take a 2.5 watt dead key putting out 120 watts and day over a ham radio the puts out less then 100 watts or has uses only 1 watt. High dead keys in radios causes heat. Heat causes disaster.

 

Then you would have loved this transmitter ..... Yep it did that and we were glad to see the last of them DIE

 

As a licensed HAM and CBer for 47 years I don't care what you do .

NO ONE said EVERY RFX75 sounded bad but most do also the one I played with here that I was going to try on 10 meter FM looked like CRAP on a spectrum scope .

It has been a very long time since I had to mod any HAM radio short of a return to the factory for a update on my FT-100D that was a required change. How come EVERY CB has to be worked on by people with a sad lack of good test gear and how to use it ?

NOT that every tech is that way but many are and there is no license required to do this.

BTW it takes SKILL to work DX with very low power or on bands like 2 meters and above ( see qsl card ) but running hunderds of watts on CB or 10 meters Heck with 4 watts on 29.600 FM I worked Alaska and Germany from the car.

I had friend ( SK ) first licensed in 1919 who with 1/4 watt worked stations at 1,000 miles on 2 meter AM his station was powered off BATTERYS ....

 

I think you nailed it without intending to-I'm not a "ham radio guy," but I don't want my radio to sound good for a CB, or good for a amateur radio, I want it to just plain sound good. If someone was talking to me on the telephone and their voice was booming and loud and had echo in it, I'd tell them we had a bad connection.

 

Josh .....

5 "S" units of swing sounds like crap on any band .....

If anyone wants to hear good sounding AM look for the oldtimers on 75 meter AM running 1930's to 1960's restored radios. You don't get that way with 500% positive peaks .... even though it looks cool on a scope.

Now I run FM and SSB since AM is almost gone outside of CB and aircraft.
I have some VERY good am transmitters for 6 meters and have worked people when that band is open. What sounds like CRAP on CB will also sound like CRAP on any ham band you can't build a CB or HAM radio it's a RADIO built for a frequency be that CB or HAM.

BACK 42 years ago I ran a VERY TOP END 6 and 2 meter AM station with high level modullation with clipping and compression at audio level. It was broadcast quialty.

Today it would be over 100 lbs of scrap .....

 

How come cbs that sound good look so bad on a scope? I am curious what a 29 with the rfx75 that custom cb builds looks like on a scope. I have heard his radios with a about a 6 watt dead if I can remember right from his video swinging 120 that sound great up to 10 miles. I don't know the exact specs on his because it wasn the one he made the video on but its sounds great and Doug tunes them all close to the same. I'd love to see just to see what they acualy look like on the scope.

 

Not all radios that sound good will look bad on a scope, it is mainly radios that have some sort of swing kit or some tech's "personal" mod (Sparkified,Rolling Tuned,Whackpack,Turbo Tune or whatever their cheerleaders are calling it).Most all type-accepted CBs sold today can hit peaks of 100% modulation and will sound good and look good on an o'scope

This or very similar:

 

Can you explain to me what that is showing? I haven't use a osciliscope since 9 grade science class. and forgot it all since. Lol I am thinking it looks like 120% modulation. But Doug said he sets his radios at 100% or just under in alot of cases.