My legal CB with five watts output power.
radioguy
years ago, and right on the box by the manufacturer itself, it says
this 40 channel cb has "five watts output power".
an_old_friend
I thought the legal limits 4 w am and `2 ssb although it hardly
matters
I have a such strightlegal stion myself althoughas I understand I
could cross conect it to my ham amp for HF and it would boast it to
the same several hunerd watts if I felt a need for it
tn...@mucks.net
It was probably a Midland and it was talking about audio output power.
mopeyz...@yahoo.com
> >I still have my old FCC-approved 40 channel cb I bought brand-new
> >years ago, and right on the box by the manufacturer itself, it says
> >this 40 channel cb has "five watts output power".
>
> It was probably a Midland and it was talking about audio output power.
shut up doper
an_old_friend
> >I still have my old FCC-approved 40 channel cb I bought brand-new
> >years ago, and right on the box by the manufacturer itself, it says
> >this 40 channel cb has "five watts output power".
>
> It was probably a Midland and it was talking about audio output power.
i suppose it could after after does the FCC regulate audiooutput? I
doubt it
radioguy
>
> >I still have my old FCC-approved 40 channel cb I bought brand-new
> >years ago, and right on the box by the manufacturer itself, it says
> >this 40 channel cb has "five watts output power".
>
> It was probably a Midland and it was talking about audio output power.
No. It's a fourty channel CB. An old one. Bought in 1990, Or And said
on the box "five watts output power".
And is FCC approved.
And some other brands did also.
Which proves that 1. the old limit was five watts output power, not
five watts input power.
and 2. That the five watt power limit did not go away immediately
after 23 channel CB radios could no longer be sold.
Even a couple of decades after 23 channel Cb radios were no longer
allowed to be sold, FCC approved fourty channel CBs with five watts of
output
power were being sold.
I don't know what year it changed to four watts, but it definitely
wasn't before 1990.
I think those types of CBs were still being made and sold even in
1993.
silic...@gmail.com
Sorry, you're wrong. The 5 watt number you speak of likely is,
indeed, audio power and not RF power. The 4 watt AM carrier power /
12 watt SSB PEP power rule went into effect in the mid 1970s, before
40 channel radios were made. Do a little research!
Ecliptica
The question is, does it actually still output five watts? I have an old
5 watt 23 channel rig, but I only get about three watts from it now. I
guess it just declined with age.