Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: SW or CB Mobil Radio: Legal? Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 89 21:37:58 GMT Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 36 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 348, message 8 of 10 In article msmith@hardees.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >Actually, CB Radio, which doesn't require a license, is located >between 27 and 28 MHz. I don't know what the channels are exactly in >that range, but I do remember that they are not in a purely sequential >order, due to the expansion from 23 to 40 channels. Also, many CB >DXers (people who go for distant contacts) use either the Upper >SideBand or the Lower SideBand (USB and LSB, collectively know as >SSB), which allows separate communications to use the same base >frequency as a normal AM channel. >Mark Smith | "Be careful when looking into the distance, |All Rights You've got me. You're right. With the exception of CB, there's noplace to use a "Short Wave" transceiver without proper licensing, and CB really doesn't qualify as short wave. They still have power and antenna limitations, don't they? -edg -- Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg [Moderator's Note: Power and antenna limitions in CB? You've gotta be kidding! I *know* what the rules say, but gawd a'mighty! At least here in Chicago some of those boogers are running a thousand watts if they're running a hundred milliwatts! And they get on the so-called 'high channels', meaning illegally squatting on the upper (usually, sometimes lower) side of 27.415 all the way to 27.805. Some of them even get all the way up in ten meters running power talking skip all day. The worst offenders are now starting to pollute the rest of the spectrum. They go to 'swap meets' and come home with some piece of junk then sit on forty meters tuning up and fooling around. Their idea of humor is to feed their power mike into a reverb unit and then b-rr-eak break break break break for a radio check check check. If it is true what 'they' say, that a real man ought to be able to tune and peak his radio, then we have a bunch of little infants here. PT]