Never know what you'll find moving...

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

I bought my first CB radio in the late 90's, a cheapie Radio Shack for the car, in case I needed aid when I was traveling cross-country back then. I found it useful to get information on road and traffic conditions from the truckers. There was foolishness though especially in the major cities.

I hooked the CB back up briefly about a year ago, and locally it's mostly jive talkers with echo chambers and sound effects - very ignorant stuff. Occasionally some trucker seeks directions, but half the time no one can hear/respond over the boosted trash talkers and their overmodulated garbage.

I just read the text of the Notice of Violation sent to the CB operator in Washington state, and was amazed how many of the rules that person was violating. It seems he was going counter to every rule listed in the document, including the one forbidding the use of sound effects, echo, etc. How or why they are getting away with it in Louisiana, however, is beyond me.

I also did not realize (until I read that NOV) that the FCC still monitored 27 MHz for violations of rules. I thought that since the agency ceased issuance of CB licenses over 25 years ago, this band had turned more or less into an RF "wild west" where there are no rules, regulations or anything else to stop anyone from turning the band into an utter wasteland.

What gets me, however, is how, as I mentioned above, these idiots are getting away with using sound effects, electronic echo, name it, when there are definite rules against such abuse of the Citizens Band. The man in Washington state who received the NOV I mentioned found out (the hard way) that 27 MHz is still watched by the FCC and violators will be cited for such abuse.

I did not, however, see anything in that NOV (unless I missed something) in reference to the man being fined for his antics. I cannot believe he got away with just a warning (a slap on the wrist, as it were); he went against regulations, so he should very well have been fined or even imprisoned, as any other violator of FCC rules would have been. If this man had done the same thing on any amateur band, he would have had the boom lowered on him--but good.