Another CB Shop Gets Busted By The FCC...

Selling equipment to CBers can be a bit costly if you get caught. I don't know what the rub is anymore, nobody uses the CB anymore anyway.

 

Could of fooled me.

 

You would think the FCC would have bigger fish to fry. Good Grief!

 

Maybe the DOT is helping them out?

 

Throw the CB out the window and you will realize how much more preaceful the day will become... Unless you like hearing 10 year olds whine daily...

 

If it were YOU being splattered on, or finding people on YOUR assigned frequencies that have no right to be there, it would be a different story. True, CB itself is not all that important in the scheme of things. But lest we forget, there are OTHER radio users above and below 11 Meters. Those unfiltered amps can generate harmonics quite a distance from 27 MHZ, and those modified and so-called "10 Meter 'amateur' radios" create interference to other services. It is often just too great a temptation for unlicensed CBers to stray out of the 27 MHZ area onto adjacent bands. They often land in the 10 Meter ham band. For those who have listened to (Why, that racket is ruining my private channel!) the morse code and digital signals that populate the lower part of 10M, are authorized users of those frequencies who are USING them in accordance with US law and International treaties. CBers often think "them channels is empty and nobody uses 'em anymore", and that is a myth. That "racket" IS communicating: its just in a different mode. That's where FCC comes in. These authorized users---US military, commercial, government and the Amateur Radio users----all hear the AM signals of CB ops chatting away interfering with THEM! They complain about the splattering interference of amps, illegal signals, and the botched up radios wid dem "extree" channels, and FCC then gets involved in busting those who facilitate the interference. They also go after individuals, too. There's usually one or two CBers being busted as well via FCC's website.

Its all about fairness. CBers should be able to use their radios without interference so long as they are legal. Others outside CB should be able to use THEIRS, too, without interference from CB. You must know that some CBers take great store in being "loud 'n proud" and that often this is achieved with BIG splattering amps and boogered up radios. These people don't CARE about who they mess up. Indeed, to them its part of the fulfillment, filling the void of inadequacy in their lives. Being discourteous and stomping mudducks is their forte'!

If it were YOU being bothered, you'd think differently about what FCC does.

 

Not true, CB is still in use, but even if it weren't, the law is the law....until the FCC wants to lift their rules on CB, they are what they are, regardless of who uses them.

They probably need revenue money in this Obamanized economy we live in...what better way than to go after violators. Not much different than the cops who sit and run speed traps.

 

CB is still in use, but barely. I really do think it's probably going to die out in a few years, and that usage will drop as the solar cycle heads toward minimum and the skip stops rolling. I suspect it will die out shortly thereafter. Or who knows - maybe once the clowns with 10,000+ watt base stations can't propagate for a decade, there will be a resurgence of local chatter. One can hope, anyway.

Sucks. I finally picked up one of my dream radios last week, a Cobra 148, been wanting one of those since I was 13... but alas, hardly anybody to talk to anymore.

Sure wish I was born 20 years before I was sometimes...