User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1.0 Operation
- 2.0 FCC Provisions
- 2.1 What are the Citizens Band Radio Services?
- 2.2 How do I use these rules?
- 2.3 Am I eligible to operate a CB station?
- 2.4 Do I need a license?
- 2.5 Where may I operate my CB station?
- 2.6 Are there any special restrictions on the location of my CB station?
- 2.7 On what channels may I operate?
- 2.8 How high may I put my antenna?
- 2.9 What equipment may I use at my CB station?
- 2.10 How much power may I use?
- 2.11 May I use power amplifiers?
- 2.12 What communications may be transmitted?
- 2.13 What communications are prohibited?
- 2.14 May I be paid to use my CB station?
- 2.15 Who is responsible for communications I make?
- 2.16 Do I have to limit the length of my communications?
- 2.17 Do I identify my CB communications?
- 2.18 How do I use my CB station in an emergency or to assist a traveler?
- 2.19 May I operate my CB station transmitter by remote control?
- 2.20 May I connect my CB station transmitter to a telephone?
- 2.21 What are the penalties for violating these rules?
- 2.22 How do I answer correspondence from the FCC?
- 2.23 What must I do if the FCC tells me that my CB station is causing interference?
- 2.24 How do I have my CB station transmitter serviced?
- 2.26 May I make any changes to my CB station transmitter?
- 2.27 Do I have to make my CB station available for inspection?
- 2.28 How do I contact the FCC?
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2.11 May I use power amplifiers?
(a) You may not attach the following items (power amplifiers) to your certificated CB transmitter in any
way:
(1) External radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (sometimes called linears or linear amplifiers); or
(2) Any other devices which, when used with a radio transmitter as a signal source, are capable of
amplifying the signal.
(b) There are no exceptions to this rule and use of a power amplifier voids your authority to operate the
station.
(c) The FCC will presume you have used a linear or other external RF power amplifier if--
(1) It is in your possession or on your premises; and
(2) There is other evidence that you have operated your CB station with more power than allowed by CB
Rule 10, Sec. 95.410.
(d) Paragraph (c) of this section does not apply if you hold a license in another radio service which allows
you to operate an external RF power amplifier.
2.12 What communications may be transmitted?
(a) You may use your CB station to transmit two-way plain language communications. Two-way plain
language communications are communications without codes or coded messages. Operating signals such as
``ten codes'' are not considered codes or coded messages. You may transmit two-way plain language
communications only to other CB stations, to units of your own CB station or to authorized government
stations on CB frequencies about--
(1) Your personal or business activities or those of members of your immediate family living in your
household;
(2) Emergencies (see CB Rule 18, Sec. 95.418);
(3) Traveler assistance (see CB Rule 18, Sec. 95.418); or
(4) Civil defense activities in connection with official tests or drills conducted by, or actual emergencies
announced by, the civil defense agency with authority over the area in which your station is located.
(b) You may use your CB station to transmit a tone signal only when the signal is used to make contact or
to continue communications. (Examples of circuits using these signals are tone operated squelch and
selective calling circuits.) If the signal is an audible tone, it must last no longer than 15 seconds at one time.
If the signal is a subaudible tone, it may be transmitted continuously only as long as you are talking.
(c) You may use your CB station to transmit one-way communications (messages which are not intended to
establish communications between two or more particular CB stations) only for emergency
communications, traveler assistance, brief tests (radio checks) or voice paging.
2.13 What communications are prohibited?
(a) You must not use a CB station--
(1) In connection with any activity which is against federal, state or local law;
(2) To transmit obscence, indecent or profane words, language or meaning;
(3) To interfere intentionally with the communications of another CB station;
(4) To transmit one-way communications, except for emergency communications, traveler assistance,
brief tests (radio checks), or voice paging;
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