[BC] What is this?

[Tom Spencer]

FALSE

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=ce731ebf3f5c1e21883f758a83ddae8e&rgn=div8&view=text&node=47:5.0.1.1.5.5.146.2&idno=47

http://tinyurl.com/47CFR95-603

§ 95.603   Certification required.

(c) Each CB transmitter (a transmitter that operates or is intended to 
operate at a station authorized in the CB) must be certificated.

_*/ No CB transmitter certificated pursuant to an application filed 
prior to September 10, 1976, shall be manufactured or marketed./*_

Endquote (Emphasis added)

Check the date - if it was certified before 9/10/76, no can use - period

Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD wrote:
> As I recall the rule from way way back...  New radios IMPORTED after a
> certain date had to be 40ch, limited to 4w on AM and seems like maybe
> limited to 80% modulation.  Most of these were so skimpily built that
> they struggled to make 4 watts anyway.
>
> Otherwise any existing 23ch radio can still be sold.
>
> KJ4HYD wrote:
>   
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Wayne Woollard" <woollard at inreach.com>
>>
>>     
>>> There were some 11 meter business band frequencies intermixed with the 
>>> early
>>> CB frequencies in the early 1960's.
>>>       

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Tom Spencer
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