exported cb radio

If you really do hold an extra amateur license, then I'm sure you know that there are times when you flip to the CW segment (aka morse code) of 10 meters and hear voices when you should only hear dits and dahs. I believe that is the main reason why 10 meter exports are shunned.

Now as to why you can buy exports on the market if they're illegal....good question. I have heard in the past the FCC would walk into a truck stop, and confiscate all the exports for sale/fine the hell out of the store owners for selling exports. Yet you can go to all sorts of CB radio shop websites and find their store locations, and find them still selling these radios. Hhhmmm maybe the FCC finally came to it's senses and realized the sale of exports was more than they could control?

Of course I think another reason exports are shunned is because they produce more than the allotted 4 watts of power and some would rather be goody-two shoes and abide by the law/turn those in who break the law. These same people probably already know the antenna, not the transmitter power, is what makes the radio what it is, and thumb their nose up at those who think they need a big radio and a small antenna to get out.

I could be wrong but these are just a few of my thoughts off the top of my head. I'm sure others will chime in. Gadfly will not hesitate to give you his 2 cents.

 

You sound more like a troll than an extra class ham operator. The use of illegal export radios in the USA is contrary to the FCC regulations and as extra class ham you should be setting the example, not encouraging law breaking. Maybe the enforcement is lax, but it is still illegal in the USA.

 

Morning Level 1 .....

Sadly ... Many HAMS do not understand the " EXPORT " radio problem ....

" EXPORT " radios do not exsist there is no such thing go look up FCC rules and find "EXPORT " radios in Part 90, 95 or 97. " EXPORT " is made up to cover a just illegal CB set and sometimes called " 10 METER RADIOS " making thing even worse.

You see posts on this forum asking if they need a ham license to run one on CB ....it's not there fault they just don't know and the adds for these radios clearly say HAM LICENSE IS NEEDED TO USE THIS RADIO ......

NOW ....

As a extra class ham running a UNMODIFIED set on 10 meters even though the FCC is not happy no certification of transcivers is required for 10 meter ham use so they ARE legal for a HAM to use on 10 meters ...... but NOT CB even if you have that ham license.

This is how I understand it ......

Bruce
first licensed 1963

 

WOW THIS BOARD CHANGED! For a second I thought I went to a wrong website or this one had been hacked. I think I like the old one better.

Anyways as much as I don't care for gadfly's rants, I think he said it best....someone somewhere realized truckers wanted more power and since it's illegal to run anything over 4 watts carrier on 11 meters, they would just make the radios work on 10 meters and then sell them as 10 meter radios, with instructions on how to convert them to run on 11 meters. That way they could make the radios produce more power, and legally sell them with more power.

However anyone that knows anything about radios can clearly see these 10 meter radios are clearly aimed at the CB market; some of them do not have side band, most of them do not have PL tones for repeater use. Plus most of them are channelized. I'd even be willing to say all of them are not user friendly when it comes to frequency selection. I know on the Magnum 257 you can only change frequency in tenths unless you go in and tell it to change to single digits, then it only changes within that tenth of a frequency until you go back and change to to tenths again. Over this past weekend I spun the dial on a Yaesu 857 and noticed it goes up and down as much as you want it to w/o having to change anything.

 

My gripe is many don't know what the law is and asume that if it has it in there you can go on that frequency ...

You cannot expect non hams to understand FCC rules ...

 

I dont use 20 much ....If i'm going on HF i will go on 17 or 10 meters ... Mostly I'm on 2 meter simplex SSB/FM

 

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I suppose up above are several reasons I'm not a ham. I have never heard of exported radios. I have however heard of export radios, and technically they are only legal for use by highly edumucated licenced hams. They have no label on the back which certifies that "this device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules" rendering them illegal to use for the 11 meter band.