[AMRadio] Illegal 27 MHz dealers

[Charles Ring CSRE CBNT W3NU]

Ed Sieb wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> It's worse than you think!
>
> In the last few years, a new type of CB activity has become very popular -
> the "Keydown Superbowl".
> A group, or club of CB'ers will organize a meet where the participants get
> together to compete over who has the biggest linear, with the most power.
> Amps with power levels of anywhere from 10 KW to even 50KW are operated,
> (often into ruggedized vertical antennas).
>
>

I have heard of these events and the subculture that supports them, and I am
guessing that the FCC hesitates to go after them for the same reason as cops
hesitate to go after a well-armed biker gang - the real possibility of violence.

Also realize that their claimed power levels are most likely very exaggerated,
not that it isn't enough to make them the world champs of harmful interference.

On a more normal scale there is never a hamfest where i dont see a selection of
awful looking illegal CB amps. At the last one I saw one painted black, which
reminded me of this (written by Rod Newkirk?) from an old QST:

A CB with mind full of static
thinks Uncle is undemocratic
He daily demands
a dozen new bands
for his secret black box in the attic


73 de W3NU