In 1976 the FCC changed the rules for Type Acceptance of CB radios.
Any radio that met type acceptance prior to that date was allowed to
be used but their sale was made illegal.

yes, I remember the sale of 23 channels being made illegal.

However, I'm still not sure that it was even legal for the FCC to do
so.

Although they did so, anyways.

From what I learned in school, which was before that happened, it's
illegal for the FCC to do so.

Or the mandatory transition to digital tv (although it was a past
Congress who decided to do that instead of the FCC)

Or them busting the CB shops for selling 10 meter radios today they
bbought before the new FCC rules prohibiting selling them went into
effect.

You can still legally get scanners wih cell phone coverage, if you can
find one, as long as they were manufactured before a certain date.

So the salee of those are still legal. So why not the sale of 23
channel CBs?

I thought all analog tv had to be shut off next year, but last night,
I seen the tv station run a crawl explaining thatonly full power tv
stations have to switch, and
explained that low power tv stations and tv translators are both
allowed to continue broadcasting in analog after that date.

We don't have any LPTV we can pick up over the air here, so over the
air tv will effectively be gone from here, since indoor antennas,
stationary roof antennas,
roof antennas with rotors all didn't work to get clear digital tv
reception. Digital tv reception didn't even work through the cable tv
company even though they
have the best reception equipment and location allowed around here. It
still frequently breaks up into blocks with audio cutting out when it
does so.

Unwatchable.

And neighbors with a lot better lot more expensive equipment than we
can afford who also had digital tv capability couldn't get any
watchable digital tv reception,
even though there's several digital tv stations around here.

The analog versions of those same stations are completely fine around
here.

And other people than just me also noticed the analog cable tv
breaking up into blocks since the cable company picks up the cable tv
stations' digitally and
retransmits them as analog.

Once all the full power broadcast stations switch over to digital,
they'll be unwatchable even on analog cable tv from the digital signal
breaking up at the cable tv
companiy's reception point and retransmitting it over analog cable tv.

From what I learned in school, obviously before it ever happened, the
FCC's busting of the CB shops for selling today 10 meter radios they
bought before the
FCC changed the rules is completely illegal.

If it's legal, then ham radios have to be certified by the FCC to
legally be used on the ham bands.

And hams say ham radios don't have to be certified to be used on the
ham bands.

But if those hams are correct, then the 10 meter radios are perfectly
legal.

however, the FCC says they aren't legal

And if they are not legal,

then ham radios do have to be certified by the FCC before they're
allowed to be used on the ham bands.

Which makes almost every ham radio that exists today completely
illegal to use on the ham bands.

Beccause according to what the FCC has been doing recently, it doesn't
matter how old those radios are.

According to the FCC rules, old ham radios are illegal since they're
channelized radios which can easily be used on the cb band.