All this 'export' business is a 'work-around' to sell manufacture and sell 'CB' radios not legal for use in the USA by 'CB'ers. What could it possibly be except that?
The 'CB' service and the 'ham' service are two completely different types of services who's only connection is that they deal with using radios. They are defined and have completely different requirements and rules governing them.
Hams, or through Part-97, have the privilege of building or modifying equipment for their use. That privilege is 'paid for' with the responsibility of passing a license exam which covers some very basic checks about safety (don't kill yourself immediately) and minimum electronic standards you have to comply with. Taking and passing that license test just is supposed to show that you know those requirements. Keeping that license depends on complying with the requirements. Since there is no licensing requirements for 'CB', there's no corresponding 'privileges', you can't do any building/modifying. Simple as that. But there IS the requirement of reading the Part-95 rules! Which means you also have the requirement of following them. The way it's set up, just using a CB radio says you will comply with them. Don't like that part? Fine, change it. But do that 'changing' in the right way, or you are still 'wrong'. That's about as simple as it gets really. Same thing applies to driving a car, owning property, whatever, it's just a different set of rules.
Identity theft.
If you want to use someone else's call sign, you will eventually get found out. If someone sks you for a QSL card for a contact you didn't make (more common than you might think), tell them the truth, that they weren't talking to you. That can certainly cause problems, but if it wasn't you, you can't be held responsible for whatever 'they' did. Getting anyone to believe you might take a while though.
Suit yourself... Just be aware of the consequences, you know?
- 'Doc
(You can call your dog a bird, but I wanna see it fly or lay eggs.)
