Re: Export/Chinese made radio's
Watchman76 said:
Ten Tec and Drake are made in TN and Ohio, I have a common sense solution to the CB "freeband" problem and poorly built export crap BUT it will never fly! Expand the CB/11m band from 26.000 to 28.000 and divide it into 2 sections - 26.000 to 26.995 would be AM only and 27.005 to 27.995 SSB only, make these rigs here in the USA and get a American Co. to make them and make them to TX a peak of 50w AM and 100w SSB and so that they cannot TX SSB on the AM band and AM on the SSB band. Make them impossible to go below 26 or above 28 mhz. Add any amount of money and manpower the FCC needs to hunt down EVERY importer of the cheaply made export crap and shut them down.! This way we get higher quality radio gear at lower prices and they'd be legal and the only problem is the HAMS would go into fits and convulsions over this plan!!
You're right! Won't fly! FCC doesn't control *most* of that, and particularly 26 MHZ. That is military and, yes, it IS used; it just may not be voice. Mil comms often use spread spectrum and frequency-hopping modes. There ARE military agencies that DO use that area, and if you were to mess up a rescue mission, there'd be h** to pay. It HAS happened before and the fella that was on 26 MHZ got a huge fine for it.
Also, AM uses up a lot of space --around 6 KHZ--and it is the reason for the 10 KHZ spacing in the first place. SSB? Mmmmm, maybe
While it may be frustrating because CB
only has 40 channels and 4 watts, we aren't seeing that there ARE reasons why it is set up the way it is--tunnel vision because of the vested interest in ONE radio service; *My* radio is more important than any other consideration and the h** with anyone else. The philosophy of other radio services and the regulatory agencies see the thing from a totally different view.
CB thinks, well, I don't *hear* anything on them channels, I can't see why I can't talk on 'em. I ain't hurtin' anything.
How do
YOU know you aren't? Just because you *think* there's nothing on there doesn't mean there isn't. CB is geared to voice and unaccustomed to other modes like morse, teletype, and Pactor. So while someone is "ratchetjawin'", he hears "Brrrrrrrrrrrup" and thinks it's just noise. But that 50 watts of voice is causing the receiver's printer or screen to "skip" letters, or whole phrases. Basically, you are asking the military, the news media, forestry and other services to stop commerce so CB can "ratchet jaw"! :shock: Do YOU have the training to recognize that "funny" noise as actual transmissions? For example, I am listening to data transmissions on certain gov't HF frequencies. It has to do with FEMA and other safety agencies. So if spread sprectrum radios were being used and the conditions were favorable for 26 MHZ, the radio would land on that frequency(s) but, there's
"HOW 'BOUCHA, YA GOTTA AN OLE COPY ON THIS ONE SAND SHOVELER IN CENTRAL NAW'TH C'LINA, WE TRYIN'!!!!!" Whose communications is more important? CB or FEMA trying to marshal supplies into New Orleans? That, respectfully, why HF CB will not get any more "channels" or power. It will likely get more VHF or UHF as common carrier and TV moves higher in the Gigahertz regions. IF CB hobbiests had behaved, they might have, but with all the stuff about "extree channels", big amplifiers and encroaching illegally in others' channels, NO way!
FCC knows it allowed a mess to develop, but the people that allowed it to happen are gone, and the current admins have to deal with it with the manpower and funds they have.
Like I said, get that ham ticket if you haven't already.
73
CWM