Thanks to the Coos County Radio Club website, a member of the public came forward with an illegally modified Citizens Band radio. And due to that interaction the radio has been removed from circulation.
Prohibition of Sale: The FCC strictly prohibits the marketing, advertising, or selling of non-certified or illegally modified radio equipment. This applies to everyone, regardless of whether they hold a Ham license or not.
If you modify your radio for extra “channels” or freeband operation the radio is now illegal to use to transmit. If you modify your radio’s clarifier to adjust TX frequency your radio is now illegal to use to transmit.
If a CB shop (any CB shop) does a “peak and tune” to your CB radio and it increases the modulation or output power over FCC levels the radio is now illegal to use to transmit. It doesn’t matter that it’s a CB shop with a business license that did the work on your radio, it still becomes an illegal CB radio to use for transmitting.
It’s simply illegal to make any modifications to your CB radio. What does this mean? You cannot legally change anything inside the radio and then use the radio for transmitting.
This is one service the Ham Radio community is ready to help the public with – What to do with legacy radio gear of all kinds.
In this case, a member took possession of the gear and will assure proper disposal of the radio.
The 80 watt HF amp might work well for POTA though!
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