[BC] What is this?

[Alan Kline]

I've always understood the rules to apply to original manufacturers and 
*retail* sellers, not Joe QRM who wants to run a classified ad and 
unload his old 23-channel rig.

An analogy here would be TV sets with only an NTSC tuner. A manufacturer 
or retail dealer may no longer import or sell at retail sets with only 
an NTSC tuner, but there's nothing to prevent an end-user from reselling 
an old set, and certainly nothing that says an end-user must stop using 
such a set.

Tom Spencer wrote:
> I read it as saying all certifications issued prior to 09/10/1976 are 
> void.  And since the TX has to be certified, and the certification 
> issued prior to September 10, 1996 is void, then the unit is no longer 
> certified, and can't be used.
> 
> (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./*_