NEW 10 Meter Radio

A lot truckers will talk on 2 meter simplex, great conversation with out all the CB mess

 

A few years ago, the FCC deligated authority to state, county,and local authorities to help enforce part 95 rules and regs, they will take action on interference complaints, I have even encountered Federal Dot officers that have thier tickets and will challenge you at the weigh stations, and roadsides, please don't think you can't be caught, try this little experiment, with a handheld cb with a removable antenna, [you are encountering another driver raising a stink] you know he's close by signal strengh in the parking lot, get out of your truck and remove the antenna, walk around while he is transmitting, and when the signal is max, knock on his door and say hello. The reason I say this is it happened to me. I was on a wired payphone in a truck stop in southernmost maine a few yrs ago, and was talking to a customer when this screwball came in after another driver, and was running illegal power. He was calling this other chap everything in the book, my customer was hearing all this, thought it was me and you can only imagine the explaning and embaressment that I had to endure. I got this situation cleared up after about half an hour, and promply went out to my truck to grab my handheld to do a little signal hunting. I called the state police for an assist, they met me out in the parking lot, I explained what I was doing. showed him the law the we were working under, and found the perpatrator. you can imagine what happened next,73's"best of luck" Rick

 

Actually daywolf I wanna hear the rest of the story.

 

I'd like to see proof this actually happened

 

TRUE ..... It is called PL 106-521.

 

Here's the link....

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/laws/106/publ521.106.txt

 

I am fimiliar with PL 106-521. I was refering to daywolf's story.

 

I always wear my boots when I read this forum, just in case a story like that pops up.

 

A driver starts this thread talking about his new radio. Soon thereafter it is dragged down into the same trashcan pit of hammers coming in with their desperate need to badger and warn, no I say to threaten the poor driver with laws about illegal use of their radios for CB. Thread after thread after thread. One can only surmise that such a desperate need to hold power over others indicates their complete lack of 'attributes' in their own miserable lives. How pathetic I say. What a poor excuse of a way to garner new recruits for their ranks. In all the ham sites I have been to I do not remember an unending stream of drivers coming in to warn hammers about their driving any vehicles they are not properly licensed for. When in the hell is enough actually enough for you people. The law you keep quoting means nothing unless said state or local authority has actually enacted legislation to enforce CB rules.

Every single thread on this site is dragged down into this endless cesspit of hammers badgering truck drivers on their own site over something which is none of their #### business unless they are actually suffering interference which is almost never the case. Ham radio was once something decent and noble proudly proclaiming their use of 'Elmers' to build and enhance their ranks but you people like most I meet in ham radio are nothing more than the 'Dr Jacob "Jack" Kevorkians' of radio. You turn people away from ham radio by being the poor excuse for human beings you show yourselves to be. How powerless in your own lives you must be to dedicate your existence to badgering endlessly poor truck drivers who have never once in their useful lives ever so poorly treated you. Every single thread on this site ends this way and I for one am sick of hearing it. Or should I say 'reading' it.

So few of you are even my peers on this site. I drove 18 wheelers for a living at one time in my life in the 70's. I made certain, shall I say specialized, parts for thermonuclear weapons before this. Then one day the second most worthless President in history Mr Peanut decided we are going to be nice and disarm ourselves thus ending the need for my job. My brother being a veteran driver and trainer talked me into truck driving for a while. Which I did until I could get back into technology as a career and I for one liked the adventure of being paid to see the country. As a side hobby I repaired CB radios in Phoenix and became so well known for it I started making better money doing that than my chosen profession and thus another career was born. All through the 80's I looked at what a certain amateur group in Phoenix was doing to the CB community in their endless undeclared war on CB. It made me sick. Writing down the address of a hated CB'ers neighbor, filling out and turning in phony complaints to the FCC. While at the same time jamming CB in Phoenix running their ham gear through their Henry 4K's. Day after day after day it never stopped.

In one instance of your phony complaints you cost a decent family man 'T Charlie' $1,500 in legal fees defending himself in federal court. Money taken from his care of his children I might add. He was one of the most honest decent hard working people I have ever known. Kind, friendly, always helping others in need, and quite nice to everyone on his CB, the only social life he had outside of work and family. The address you used was his next door neighbor who was his childhood friend and even after this friend swore in court he did not make any complaints the FCC still saw fit to prosecute T Charlie for merely a tuned up base station with no amplifiers and no illegal channels. This while you ran your kilowatts and your many frequencies on 11 meters using your 'legal' ham stations. T Charlie won his case but his family who never had much never got their $1,500 hundred back. How much do you think a grocery clerk makes? He worked honestly for a living, he did not sit around on welfare and food stamps tormenting innocent CB'ers with the ham station their daddy gave them. Yes I know some of you who fit this profile and the amateur group member who turned in this complaint we recorded on 2 meters bragging about it actually exactly fit this profile. This went on for years in Phoenix by members of this group. For all I know it still does. After years of you trashing my local group who held nice conversations on 35 LSB nightly I decided I would get my license just to tell you what I thought of your lack of humanity and simple human decency. I got my ticket at 20 WPM one minute solid copy so A- few of you were my peers, and B- I could go tell you what to go do with yourselves. Which I have done many times and hey, I am doing it right now!

So why don't you as a group stop turning every thread on this site into a warn-fest dare I say even a threat-fest, against truck driving CB'ers who work for an honest living and have never once in their lives ever bothered you nor have they ever tried to hold power and threats over you. Us decent working people who may or may never be hammers thanks to the endless stream of bottom dwellers in the hobby are tired of all of you and all of the horses you rode up on.

Think I'll end with a quote from page 1 of this thread which points out my position so well.

Groundpounder : "I have my ticket and are well aware the rules.....and when that ticket comes up for renewal it will drop because of all the holier than thou a-holes I have encountered on 10m.......73 GP"

 

I have a Galaxy DX 44V, it seems to do a good job, good transmit and recieve, but I know what you mean by, never getting a reply on the CB, I've had drivers not reply when trying to get there attention, do to they had a problem on there truck, that i just wanted to make them awhere of, like hood being unlatched, And after they dont reply, I just say, OK?, guess you'll find out the hard way, then they usually say what the problem with my truck, and I'll say, you'll find out one way or another