In article ,
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

In article ,
Bill Turner wrote:

| On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:56:31 GMT, (Doug McLaren)
| wrote:
|
| What's illegal about selling an 800 watt AM transmitter that can
| transmit on 28.515 mHz?
|
| If they are not type-accepted by the FCC, they're illegal. I doubt
| these are type-accepted.

Um, last I checked, ham radio equipment does not need to be
type-accepted by the FCC. And 28.515 mHz *is* in the ham band ...

| 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.
|
| Read the above. Now you are sure.

Nope, still not sure ...

--
Doug McLaren,
Someday you will look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

In article ,
Bill Turner wrote:

| On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:56:31 GMT, (Doug McLaren)
| wrote:
|
| What's illegal about selling an 800 watt AM transmitter that can
| transmit on 28.515 mHz?
|
| If they are not type-accepted by the FCC, they're illegal. I doubt
| these are type-accepted.

Um, last I checked, ham radio equipment does not need to be
type-accepted by the FCC. And 28.515 mHz *is* in the ham band ...

| 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.
|
| Read the above. Now you are sure.

Nope, still not sure ...

--
Doug McLaren,
Someday you will look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

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.
They prob got their rigs from www.copper.com or some other company
specializing in sellin illegal equipment right under the fcc's nose. Check
out www.texasstar.com too. They have their "cw transmitters" in various
sizes up to 800 watts. 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 $$. Tired of all the trash...

Late this afternoon, I was driving down I-24 in southern Illinois, and
trying to listen to the last story on NPR's "All Things Considered",
their story about the shortwave "numbers stations", on WSIU-91.9FM.

As a semi passed, he keyed down his CB.

His fourth harmonic completely clobbered WSIU-FM.

I have a 50-watt transmitter on 29.6MHz **in my car**. It causes
absolutely ZERO interference to FM BC reception.

You can guess how much power this semi was running....
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

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.
They prob got their rigs from www.copper.com or some other company
specializing in sellin illegal equipment right under the fcc's nose. Check
out www.texasstar.com too. They have their "cw transmitters" in various
sizes up to 800 watts. 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 $$. Tired of all the trash...

Late this afternoon, I was driving down I-24 in southern Illinois, and
trying to listen to the last story on NPR's "All Things Considered",
their story about the shortwave "numbers stations", on WSIU-91.9FM.

As a semi passed, he keyed down his CB.

His fourth harmonic completely clobbered WSIU-FM.

I have a 50-watt transmitter on 29.6MHz **in my car**. It causes
absolutely ZERO interference to FM BC reception.

You can guess how much power this semi was running....
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com