"Dave VanHorn" wrote in
message ...

It does seem like a step in the right direction.

Amen.

It weakens all their regulatory efforts, when
they allow something like this
to continue for years.

It does prove when a group effort is made to
complain about a problem to the FCC that action
will sooner or later be taken. It took some years
for the Ham community asking the FCC to get rig of
the unlicensed 10m operators but they are finally
moving on the issue.

At best, it will get rid of the "off the shelf"
rigs, and force them to buy
ham rigs, or do it underground with mods.

It will go a LONG WAY to eliminate the ignorant
users, i.e. those who buy a radio with "extra"
channels all ready in them, from the
across-the-counter-dealers. This would be mostly
your typical truck-stop CB chop-shop.

Only some serious field enforcement will make an
impact on the use.

Check the truck drivers at the weight stations.
Find a non FCC aproved CB radio, and no Ham
ticket, give them a big fine and take the radio on
the spot. The truckers will get the word out, to
the general CB user population, that the ax is
coming down on the use of non FCC aproved radios
on 11m.


--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

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"I am a
bomb
technician
if you see me
running
try to keep up "