10 meter radio in a truck - legal question.

You'll know that the Mirage is a Ranger- RCI product, don't ya. Has a Ranger board and their mike. This isn't some cheap China knockoff.

 

Sorry but when ever there is a channel selector on a ham radio, it is a CB and not a ham radio.

 

You need to get ahold of the FCC then. One of you are out of synch. Because, this Mirage 86HP, I have sitting on my dash has the FCC's amateur radio sticker on it.

 

I use a Motorola Maxtrac on 6 meters that has a channel selector. Does that make it a CB ????

 

Seriously? you know what I'm talking about.

My point guys is that most of this is a marketing thing, not a true performance or design thing and you all seem to think they are better because they are 'made' for the ham radio bands.

Take MD's Maxtrac radio, he uses it on 6 meters but the radio product line is for commercial use and it is laid out in a different format, it isn't easy to work on, a lot of surface mount parts and the design is older but not reaching back to the 70's. His product line can be used on 10 meters, on 6 and vhf, uhf with literally a large number of accessories and configurations.

 

Tell us the certification number. I just got thru LOOKING at an advertisement for the Mirage. Every bit of the claims of being an "amateur" radio is a forgery. The Mirage 86HP is NOT an "amateur" radio. The first thing on the channel selector displayed "channel 40". There IS no "channel 40" in amateur radio. It has a "band" switch. Yes, an amateur radio can have a "band" selector.....BUT! It is to select a different operating band entirely--bands for which the operator is licensed to use. CB radio has ONE "band" of 40 channels for which there is no NEED to switch "bands". The major selling feature in these so-called "10 Meter 'amateur' radios is the additional power (ILLEGAL) and the extra "channels" that are outside the CB band (also ILLEGAL) and for whom the legal users of these frequencies have been known to LOCATE and DF interlopers who have NO BUSINESS ON them!

Someone may have forged a "sticker" with a claim of FCC endorsement, but it is what it is: an ILLEGAL radio that masquerades as a "ham" radio in order to skirt the law. Again, show us the actual FCC CERTIFICATION NUMBER that we can verify with FCC! If you have an Amateur ticket, then using such a radio is completely legal. IMHO, these "export" radios are mostly junk sold as consumer fodder and to avid CBers.

 

Gadfly- So you're telling me that I highly respected C.B. shop put an fake FCC sticker and sold me a product that they willing knew was not as advertised?

 

Gadfly- Guess I've got two fradulant radio's. Called my stepson, he can't find a number on my 2970n2.