For the last two weeks I have been testing out the new Connex 3400HP (some nice new features, same board as the Connex base station). Listening to the freeband and Amateur frequencies, (using both the modified and unmodified versions of the radio) I hear exactly one call in 40 hours of listening which may have been by an unlicensed user (I say may because there was no swearing, no Tarzan yell, no echo, no Roger beep, etc. just a normal conversation which lasted about a minute, but no call signs used). If this is a regular pattern, I don't see what the problem is with the 10 meter radios. If CB users want to modify a 10 meter to get a little extra power because their certified radio cannot transmit more than 10 miles, what's the problem? Is there some area of the country where freebanding and unlicensed operation by knuckleheads is rampant? If so, it ain't in Southern Cal.