NEW 10 Meter Radio

Now that is an excellent idea.......bet it will never happen! Makes too much sense. Beginning to wonder if this whole forum isn't run by hams (including admin) trying to get the good ol' American trucker and is Galaxy radio in trouble and close down all the "un-regulated" CB shops. Tell me why I wrong!!

 

Mike ......

1ST Who are the :Unregulated CB shops you want not closed?
2ND What Galaxy radio are the nasty HAMS after ?

Fact is the FCC NO LONGER requires a license to work on CB sets and NEVER will again. Local goverments do not have the right to tell a 2 way shop how to repair/modify a radio so that's a dead issue too.

AS for radios AGAIN the FCC only will step in IF they cause a problem or those NASTY HAMS don't like someone on THEIR 10 meter band .
The KEY HERE is THEIR band As long as anyone stays within the 40 CB ch it is unlikey this will change.

 

BHW, I understand were you are coming from but please understand were the rest of us are coming from. There are a few hams here that only come here to insite an arguement by posting FCC rules, regulations etc. One particular Ham comes here are starts posting certain slurs making CBrs all look like backwoods hill billies or something. I have yet so see an infraction handed out even though these posts have been reported.

Truth be told, most of these self proclaimed radio police would leave if they were completely ignored by everyone.

As far as 10 meters being their band, nope sorry. A liscense does not give ownership to anything other then the liscense that is in the persons pocket. If it did inply ownership then I could say that people without a drivers liscense could not be on any roads no matter if they are riding a bicycle, walking or otherwise. Only people holding a drivers liscense could use the roadways because they OWN them.

All a ham liscense does is give you certain permissions to use certain frequencies. These persmissions can easily be taken away by the FCC if found violating rules of that liscense.

But personally, I could careless about liscensed or non liscensed drivers as long as they are following the rules of the road and not driving with their heads up their backsides.

Same goes for driving a truck, I could actually give a rip less if someone has a liscense or not. I care more about how they are operating the truck. Having a CDL means that people have shown they can properly operate a truck and know the basics other then just holding the steering wheel and slamming a shifter.

Too me a liscense is just another way for the local and state governement to extract money from peoples pockets.

I don't get the idea behind paying money to do such a dangerous activity such as talking on a radio over the air. LOL

But too me a respectable ham is someone willing to help possible new hams get into the hobby. Not to come on the internet posting rules and regulations constantly and causing bikering on internet boards.

Way off topic, but has anyone noticed the amount of skip lately???? Wow. I heard someone talkign loud and clear yesterday while I was rolling down the road. I answered back and he was way across the country in Florida and I was up here in North Eastern North Dakota. Had a nice short convo with the gentleman.

Isn't there supposed to be some rule about purposly trying to talk farther then 100 miles or something???? I know I did not do it on purpose. I had no clue were he was. He sounded local.

 

Morning Rat .....

Now you know working stations over 155 miles is illegal so CUT THAT OUT

On 10 meters .... The FCC does not asign bands the ITU does the asignments are world wide and 10 meters is HAM ONLY world wide.
Now the FCC CAN and DOES set rules for licensing for bands like 10 meters. IF they had a reason to start a NEW class of HAM license they could and allow them on 10 meters ... but don't hold your breath.

The reason for this is radio waves don't stop at boarders so controling them world wide is a logical way to keep order.

At least at HF VHF/UHF is a bit diffrent.

SO ......

The HAMS don't like intruders and get a bt anal over hearing them it is more than just the license thing.

Did you REALY hear Florida Hummmm ... sounds like there is hope we can talk one day OOPs now I didn't say on CB

 

Well .....

Then his taste in radios is a good as his taste in women .... He shows class in both .....

BTW ......

We have been married 30 years and she has her General class license.

 

Come now, you are the one always complaining about the the unregulated cb shops. I don't care who hangs out their shingle.

Galaxy = non type accepted CB. Every time a non-type accepted radio is mentioned here, one of you alphabet guys post the FCC rules to "inform" us we are being bad boys.

So why keep bringing up the rules? Most of us, if not all of us, use the export radios, stay fairly close to the legal CB band, at least out of the ham band (most mobile antennas aren't broad banded enough to work well at a wide range anyway, so we're limited even if we wanted to go up near the ham band). Most of the drivers I know have even quit running amps because of the computer systems in the newer trucks. And yet all we read on here is the FCC rules and how we are going to get in trouble if we dare run a export radio or tune up a Cobra over 4 watts! Give it a rest!

 

Now that's a relief.......got to keep that record un-blemished!

Cute...

 

Mike .......

Come now, you are the one always complaining about the the unregulated cb shops. I don't care who hangs out their shingle.

NO I What I SAID IS FACT .....

It's not about regulation it's about a level of training right now there is NONE ZERO NADA ...... IF a shop screws up your $500 radio how can you get recorse SUE THEM ? under what law ? There is no standard and you will find in most states you would not get very far .... EVEN going to court over a bached car repair is a nightmare and there IS a standard for CAR repairmen ....

As for running any radio as long as you stay outside of the ham bands
I don't care if you run a sparkgap ..... Thats between you and the FCC.

As for EXPORT RADIOS it is not illegal for a ham to use one on 10 or 12 meters it's the USE and by WHO not the radio and that's not my problem ... IF you like them have at it ......

RELAX .......

 

If you were running sparkgap you probably would be in every ham band (others as well) from mediumwave through UHF.