CB Operator CAUGHT for using Amp! High-Power CB Radio!

This is a story I found online in a few places, including the FCC's own website. A CB Operator was caught using an Ameritron Amplifier and asked to stop - no fines were issued yet, according to this article, but I wonder what will happen if he doesn't comply with their warnings.

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[bobbynewton]

They need to go after mud duck, he is on 19 all day and truckers can't use 19 for traffic or road conditions

[chansetwo]

There's a misconception I often hear about single sideband. Single sideband does not operate in between channels anymore than AM operates in between channels. SSB just splits the AM signal in half and uses each half (USB or LSB) individually while suppressing the carrier. That's why AM is called double sideband.

[nzoomed]

The CB band is full of people running linears, they are not afraid to even say so on the air! We can DX them when the skip is good all the way here in little old New Zealand!

[style]

That's OK we send Billions to other countries and they buy illegal devices.... lol😅

[dennissmith]

I run a 10 meter in my truck. It's nice to have to be able to get out a little further when you're talking to someone you're working with, and be heard. The biggest problem I see is those who abuse these radios, pump them up, and go on for ever with nothing but mindless blabbering, with no other purpose than to annoy as many people at as great a distance as possible. There are a lot of them.

[manandatractor]

Meanwhile, this Mud Duck character in New Mexico is hammering CB channel 19 with thousands of watts and affects untold hundreds of truckers and others across state lines with his shenanigans, seems to get a pass.

[KurtClark]

There are both responsibilities and consequences to using equipment that isn't designed for CB. If I'm using my FT-1000 on 27.365 and my neighbor says he can hear me, then I'm going to figure out a way to make sure he isn't impacted by my radio. That was part of the Technician class i took, and it makes sense even if I'm using the radio on 11 meter. If someone approached him to say they could hear him through a music amp, I suspect the conversation wasn't all that cordial if that same person reported him to the FCC. Pretty sure he's leaving stuff out of his story.

[OutlawNix]

My dad was a Truck driver all his life until he passed away from cancer back in 1996. The company my dad worked for all the drivers used linear amplifiers with their CB radios. My dad had a wood workshop so he made him self a portable wooden box. Which held the CB Radio with linear amplifier, AM/FM Radio, Speakers. Once the other drivers seen the box he made they wanted one too. So my dad ended up making quite a few of them for the other drivers.

[TravisGilbert-dl]

I had a ham operator that turned me in because I had a antenna on top of the house did it three time and I didn't have a radio in the house.
And after that he called them several more time.
Thee Fcc ask me would I mind taking the antenna down and I told him I would mine because if I started talking on the radio again it takes a permit to put it back up.
So finally the judge I had to get a warrant to keep him from causing any more trouble for me.
There are some Ham Operators that think they should be the only one to use a radio.

[ward]

That mentality is bleeding over into Ham Radio. I have been a Ham sence 1975, Today, it is the bad language, the interference, and disrespect for FCC rules, is not what it was. It is heart breaking, because conversations have turned into nonsense, and if you have your Ham Radio Transceiver turned on, make sure children are not near the radio! Nonetheless, I see this across our entire society. SAD

[johnpublic]

My dad had a CB in the house, and one in both cars. He'd go from Yonkers to Manhattan to work.
His license was KYH-0398 and I remember him coming home and relaxing with a nice group on channel 25.
Way back before you had everyone yelling "Skipland skipland!" This was back in the 1970's when the CB radio craze was in full swing. I still remember those times and the fun we had. I miss those times. --KD7YVV :)

[joeblow]

Alright, so the FCC bagged this guy. But what are they doing about the operators using 10, 000 watts on CB channel six? The so called Super Bowl channel.

[dguiley]

It’s quite annoying to have someone from half a dozen states away blasting on channel 19 when I just want to know about local traffic conditions so I can be safe on the highways and byways. At least have the integrity to use the proper frequencies for DX.

[chansetwo]

It's about time. I remember as a kid in the 90's there was a CB operator across the street that ran a cubical quad antenna with a massive amplifier and had no clue what he was doing. He would interfere with everything from telephones to televisions. He was a neighborhood nuisance. I could even hear him on 160 meters when he was operating on 27 mhz. I once suggested to him that he put a 30mhz low pass filter to cut down on spurious emission. He responded "won't that lower my power". I explained that the power loss was insignificant. But, that was all lost on him and he continued his activities.

[NatComMag]

Thanks, Jason, for sharing our article from National Communications Magazine with your viewers. We have enjoyed reading through all the comments, too!

[EdPetzolt]

A Jupiter, Fl. man using the CB handle "Rabbit Ears" was fined and imprisoned (18 months) for deliberately jamming amateur radio frequencies and operating a CB station with illegal amplifiers. The FCC warned him by mail, visited him, fined him and he was told to cease his operations. He thought he was fireproof and flaunted the FCC. One early morning the FCC, FBI andPalm Beach County Sheriff deputies entered his home, arrested him, put him in cuffs and hauled him away. They confiscated everything with a plug in his "shack". The jury took about half an hour to convict him on all counts. The look on his face when the jury rendered the verdict was amazing. This guy really thought he was going to walk right up to the moment he heard the word, "guilty". Mess around and you WILL get caught.

[MrStaybrown]

I have a cobra cb in my truck and always hear heavy haul escorts over 20 Mike's away, just loud and clear. That's 3 towns. Why do they need to run amplifiers if they're only talking to the other escorts in front or behind the heavy haul?

[JrGoonior]

I wish they would go out to New Mexico and shut down Hard Drive. He blanks CB channel 19 for hours at a time speaking to nobody.

[cactushound]

I have a Stryker SR 955 HPC and it's a beautiful radio. It does its job very well:) BTW, I did run high power in my day (late 80's and early 90's) and the key is don't be disruptive or do anything that will piss people off, then you'll be fine. I'm glad that I was able that sell the Hawk 1000 tube type linear amplifier in 1995.

[izzy]

A minor clarification: SSB (more precisely is "Single Sideband, Suppressed Carrier") is not "between channels". The suppressed carrier frequency is the exact same as the AM carrier frequency, and using the same sideband that AM would've been using, just has the opposite sideband and carrier suppressed either by filtering, or now-a-days by DSP. There are things called "Double-Sideband, Suppressed Carrier" as well as Single Sideband with Carrier. My Flex will do DSB, suppressed carrier using PowerSDR (DSB button). Sometimes different information is transmitted on the different sidebands independently. I believe CHU uses Single Sideband with Carrier for the time broadcasts.

Regarding power, 4W of AM 100% modulated is 16W PEP. The rules state 4W carrier on AM, or 12W PEP on sideband. On AM, you *can* get more than 100% modulation if the negative peaks are limited and the positive peaks are allowed to go above the 100% level, assuming of course that the amplifier is capable of that level of PEP without clipping. Commercial AM broadcast stations do this often, and that same technique is used on AM in the ham bands. I've always enjoyed experimenting with that, but the op has to know they're doing and be able to monitor properly. An o-scope and/or a spectrum analyzer will take care of that (I use both).

I still love your channel Jason -- always fun watching what you're doing! 73 my Brother!