Re: Those so-called "10 Meter" radios


"gringo" <gringo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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richard wrote:
"Jerry" <joxendi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As a licensed Amateur, I often listen to and use the 10 meter band. I
also hear truck drivers who have bought illegal "10 meter" radios and
are transmitting up there without license.


Well dude, just to make you feel a lot better, I was one who actually did
something about the problem.
With truckstops selling the radios like candy, I wrote the FCC director
about the problem and made known that these truckstops were doing so.
Charges were filed against the Pilot truckstops once it was determined
many of them were doing so. They lost the battle and are no longer
selling the radios. Other truckstops removed the radios as well. IOW,
it's damn difficult for truckers to find them unless they know some rogue
cb shop that still sells them.

If a trucker still has one, get his truck number, company name and turn
his ass in.





BS. I just left a Pilot; they still have the CB/10-meter radios on the
shelves. As do most TA's, most Petros, most mom-and-pops and a few
thousand CB shops. Truckers once in a great moon going to, say, 28-meter
band for a few minutes is not of much concern to the FCC.


Are you referring to the new radios made by the same company that made the
illegal ones?
Look closely. Those are type accepted CB's and they are 100% legal.
Yeah those are being sold everywhere, but not the illegal ones.
Know the difference.


.

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