I have no intention of dragging this out into a debate. I simply meant that these radios are not what they are made out to be. More power does...
Fair enough, Brickhauler, and good luck with your radio. Just to let you know, the Connex radios are illegal because they aren't a 'better' radio...
Well, Brickhauler, I'm not going to rant and rave about it, but yes, you can go up into the ham bands if you want to. It won't be the radio nazis...
OK, so he edited his post--but that didn't seem to be the case at the time. He must have changed his username too because it looks now like...
Then a question to the staff--why did you not delete that ham callsign from the post? That callsign, if looked up on an FCC search engine...
Yes, that is splatter. Its caused by too much power being used in the final stages of the CB with insufficient filtering in place. Most CB radios...
A lot of us hams got our start with the CB radio service, and as has been said, we're not all busybodies eager to stick our noses in everybody...