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OneFourLima wrote:

| Has everyone been hearing all the trucking activity on 10 lately? I
| listened to 3 truckers running together, transmitting on 28515, for over 4
| hrs yesterday. They were running WIDE am, never mentioning company names.

How wide is WIDE?

| They prob got their rigs from www.copper.com or some other company
| specializing in sellin illegal equipment right under the fcc's nose.

What's illegal about selling an 800 watt AM transmitter that can
transmit on 28.515 mHz? That looks to be right in the ham band. The
ARRL band plan says that space is allocated to phone (with I assume is
SSB) with AM being a bit higher, but I don't know if the band plan has
the force of law behind it or not.

| Check out www.texasstar.com too. They have their "cw transmitters"
| in various sizes up to 800 watts.

The specifications say `the maximum power output is less than 5 watts
RMS'. I guess this is a lie?

The CW transmitters look like ... CW transmitters. Though it looks
like they also sell amplifiers? It's not really clear what's what.

| No wonder 10 mtrs has so much illegal activity. They need to shut
| "Old man Copper" down. He sells 10 mtr am only "channelized" rigs
| dirt cheap to anyone with $$.

Is it illegal to sell 10 meter equipment (or any ham equipment) to non
hams? Assuming that this equipment cannot be easily modified to work
on 11 meter (CB), I'm not sure what law is being broken by selling the
equipment.

Now, from the way you're talking, it sounds like the truckers are not
ham radio operators, and are acting like it's just another CB channel
-- if so, that would certainly be illegal, but I don't see where you'd
shut down the people who sold them the equipment. If so, you'd better
shut down Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom, etc.

--
Doug McLaren,
`I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't
see why I should have to believe in it in this one.' -- Strange de Jim