[Milsurplus] "More FCC Foolishness"

[Rod Hogg]

Yea, but wasn't that in -1946-?  And that was true back then, I remember
many surplus outfits selling BC-645s and saying you could convert to "CB"
back in the late 40s and 50s. (the 450Mhz Class A band then)

Even today, truck stops are selling "10 meter 100W mobiles" that easily
convert to CB freqs or are already there, with a -little warning label-
about being illegal to use, har. Farmers and truckers use -Marine Band-
radios seemingly without fear of being caught.

Gads what with today's FRS, GMRS, and MURS radios being at almost a dime a
dozen, who would want to use old military gear for commercial applications?
If it is nostalgia, just take guts from a $14.99 FRS and stick it in the
battery box of WWII radio set, you have the 'green looks' with dependable
electronics. 

Rod
KØEQH

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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hue Miller
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Subject: [Milsurplus] "More FCC Foolishness"

>From an editorial in Collier's Magazine, June 22, 1946

Making up the Federal Communications Commission where we
dropped it in our last editorial on it, we would like to tell of a
letter which one of our readers has written us about this group
of bureaucrats.