"Richard Cranium" wrote in message
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(twistedhed) wrote in message
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You are being targeted for busts in 2004. You keykweenz are going to
get nailed. Read below and get ready to feel the heat. We can't wait
to post the FCC notices on the NG, it will be great fun.
Make certain to laugh when one of your ham friends goes down, too. We
might believe that you're unbiased if you do so. (that'll be the day!)
FCC rule 2.815(b): After APR 27, 1978, no person shall manufacture,
sell or lease, offer for sale or lease (including advertising for
sale or lease), or import, ship, or distribute for the purpose of
selling or leasing or offering for sale or lease, any external radio
frequency amplifier or amplifier kit capable of operation on any
frequency or frequencies between 24 and 35 MHz.
Signed,
Your Losers and Faggots, the AKC
Equipment in and of itself and mere possession of such equipment is
not illegal. Only certain uses of some equipment can be considered
illegal. No matter what you would like to believe.
I could have an entire house full of amplifiers and the FCC couldn't
touch them without presenting PROOF of illegal use. Read the CB rules,
Yes, (I'm not part of the antis-) you can have lots of illegal amps and not
get cited. And you could "collect" them on a shelf to keep forever. If you
have not committed some *other* infraction, then it is a moot point. You
have to do something to get FCC's attention
to start with. Then the rules (Rule 10 and 11) apply and *could* cause you a
'rathuh sticky wicket, eh wot" as the old Brit aristrocrats used to say.
And the rule (and it has been quoted many times) states as follows:
RULE 10 - Power Output
{A} Your CB station transmitter power output must not exceed the
following values under any conditions:
AM [Amplitude Modulation] - 4 watts carrier power [CP]
SSB [Single Side-Band] - 12 watts peak envelope power [PEP]
{B} If you need more information about the power rule, see Part 95/
Subpart E.
{C} Use of a transmitter which has carrier [CP] or peak envelope power
[PEP]in excess of that authorized voids your authority to operate the
station.
RULE 11 - Linear Amplifiers
{A} You may not attach the following items (power amplifiers) to your
type-accepted CB transmitter in any way:
[1] External radio frequency [RF] power amplifiers, also called linear
amplifiers, or linears;
or
[2] Any other devices which, when used with a radio transmitter as a
signal source, are capable of amplifying the signal.
{B} There are no exceptions to this rule and use of a power amplifier
voids your authority to operate the station.
{C} The FCC will presume you have used a linear or other external [RF]
power amplifier if-
[1] It is in your possession or on your premises; and
[2] There is OTHER EVIDENCE that you have operated your CB station
with more power than allowed by CB Rule 10.
{D} Paragraph C above in this section does not apply if you hold a
license in another radio service (HAM, etc.) which allows you to operate an
external RF power amplifier.
So, you can see that it is Rule ll, sec 1 that could
bring about that "sticky wicket". By getting atten-
tion called to *some* other activities, those ampli-
fiers are now in FCC's headlights, so to speak, and
are in danger of being seized, or causing you a
fine. But, again, you are still right so long as you
don't call attention to those "illegal" radios/amps.
They could sit there forever----just as you said.
J
dum@$$. If you know how to read, that is.