I have burnt finals out of a stock unit before cause it wasnt properly tuned.I have no doubt it will happen alot faster with lenear amped unit

 

nothing does only 4 watts anymore. they will dead key at 4, but once you get to jaw-jackin in them, they will swing up to about 12 watts.

i personally like my dead key at 30 watts, and then it swings to 45 watts when im talking.

 

Not out of the box, unless it's on single sideband. They can go up to 12 then. An AM CB radio, by law, can only be four watts, and that's what they'll push out of the box. If you bought one which swung more than four, then it was either peaked and tuned (which is pretty common), or it was a 10 meter ham radio converted over to 11 meter Citizens Band.
The FCC may not be able to do much as far as enforcement goes against individuals in mobile units, but they very well can against manufacturers. Know of quite a few home basers who've been tagged, as well.

As for me...



I also have an Elcan one pill or a Dave Made five pill I can put behind it if I ever get the mind to.

 

i know that you are correct, and i dont want to get in the politics and all that, i am just saying from what i see, most of them swing to 12 watts. from what was explained to me several years ago, is that when the FCC checks those, they only dead key them. of course i could be wrong, i am just going off of what i was told. havent done much research myself on it. but i do know that the home baser's that are putting out some power do have a better chance of getting caught. and i know that me putting out 45 watts is technically illegal, but i am not "advertising" anything. so much gray area with some older stuff like CB radios. i've never had a problem with the law, but i am, at least right now, only using mine in the line of work that i do.

 

The advantage the home basers have in output actually isn't power... they can do a lot more with a lot less. It's that they have 11 meter long antennas which can transmit a full wave, and produce actual DB gain... if someone tells you their short antenna produces gain, that's incorrect - transmitting at less than a full wave, there is only DB loss.
It's doubtful the FCC is going to take much of an interest in a 45 watt radio. Now if you start cranking out thousands and disrupt other communications, it becomes a whole different matter, which is why they end up busting home basers.

 

I know I had their attention when I was younger LOL.Those were the days.I had this older guy as friend he tweeked all my radios and taught me about amplification and home base attenas.The starduster tripples were bad to the bone.You guys may have a clue or not IDK.You could rotate them and lock on somebody`s signal.Anyone inbetween was dead noise.10ft higher than they should have been I had a hell of tower.I was 14 and put it up by myself.Tied here down with cables.