MOD's. Look at this and see what you think.

Does anyone know if there is a radio repair shope near Ontario Oregon or across in Idaho? The guy that was at the stage stop out of boise idaho isnt there anymore and i have 2 cobras that need fixed.

 

The CB shop could be one of those "well if he would have sent it back we would have fixed it...." types. But in all reality the days of the "good CB repairman" are about over. Now most of them are "snip" and "clip" shops that care nothing about the radio, they just want to "show" you them "big numbers" on their "happy meter" in an attempt to get even deeper in your pocket, knowing you are all over the road won't be back anytime soon to make them fix it. Plus they also know time is essence to you so they cut corners to get you in and out in a jiffy.

 

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There is NO LICENING or REQUIREMENTS to be a CB repairman

 

There are some very good techs out there regardless of whether they're licensed (note the spelling of that word) or not. There are plenty of licensed auto shops and contractors that SUCK at what they do. If radio techs were licensed it would not improve the situation one iota.

What I'm trying to say is...I don't think that a license is realevant.

 

NO IT IS NOT ......

The only control the FCC and local goverment had on radio repair is the FCC License .... that ended in 1982. Without it they shifted the rules to hold the owner of the radio for any illegalys of the radio it's self not the tech as it use to be .....

Even in what I do most agencys still require you hold a GROL ( FCC LICENSE ) long after the legal requirement is gone.

If you beleve this then you should have no problem with dong away with a drivers license since many people can drive a truck .... same logic .....

 

Because? It was and is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to regulate! Enforcement efforts were and are an expensive joke so it was decided (since C.B. is an irrelevant toy anyway) to do away with it.

That statement makes "0" sense! If the legal requirement is gone then there is no requirement.

Bad analogy here...No one ever died in a firey crash with an unlicensed C.B. radio tech , however the same cannot be said of unlicensed drivers.

 

MY SHERIFF OFFICE REQUIRED RADIO TECHS TO HOLD THE LICENSE which I do .... and have since 1967 ... All any license does is show some level of learning at some point .....

The license was done away with because the FCC wanted out of regulating ALL REPAIR it had NOTHING to do with CB just that CB was covered by the license too .... Even police and fire is no longer covered.

NOW I FEEL I SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DRIVE A 18 wheeler under the same logic that you beleve in that is there are lots of good drivers why should we save to show it to some tester .....

The FACT IS You ( and me ) are now the ones who must matain our radios and any tech who screws your radio up can just walk away .....

 

When CB shops were licensed there was a much better quality of work. Just like a most CDL drivers are a much better driver than NON-CDL drivers.