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speaking of getting facts straight, 11m dxcc is recognized by dx groups all over the world. as well as many other awards for 11 meters. again OUR laws do not apply to people in other countries"
I'm not talking about our laws. It would appear that some of the most popular "11m" Dxing "channels" are in between the top of the legal US/Canadian/Australian/Indon10m ham band.
As far as I know there is no way in any ITU region to legally work DX in the range 27.500 to 28.000 MHz, and yet that is where a lot of the activity takes place.
And for at least several legal CB allocations worldwide, DX is not permitted.
From G4NSJ's site:
"It's always amazed me to think that the international CB community are so well organized. The international SSB calling frequency is 27.555mHz, and this works extremely well. "
If you'd like to point me to the specific governmental organizations that authorize hobbyists to use 27.555MHz, I'd be happy to know of them so I don't put my foot in my mouth in the future.
But I'm pretty damn sure it's illegal to be an unlicensed operator working DX on 27.555MHz no matter where you live, and I'm also pretty sure that the "meteorological aids, fixed, and mobile" services allowed to use that area of the spectrum are, by international treaty, licensed services.
DX groups are not governments. And I'm quite sure that there are no laws allowing unlicensed operation over most of the range where a RCI-2950 operates.
And before you come back with "maybe this guy has a license," he doesn't have a callsign consistent with international callsign rules.
Again, there are international treaties about this.
An interesting site for information is the website of the Indonesian CB organization, which is governmentally approved (but go find the freq. allocation!). They have a list of "CB" callsigns:
http://www.idxc.org/callsign/index.php?cur_page=6&sort=id%20DESCYou'll notice the Indonesian ones all start with JZ, which is an official Indonesian radio prefix per the ITU.
You'll notice they don't start with their "country code" like the other "callsigns" do.
Now nothing I've said is strict proof of extralegal operation (for example, you get to pick your identifier in the legal CB bands in many places), so I don't expect you to be convinced, but I also don't care.
We can afford to be shunned by a few CB enthusiasts and freebanders.
esian/etc/etc/etc CB band and the bottom of the
Now look, Reg seems to be a nice, polite guy, seems to have a good looking antenna... and we share something in common... the fact that we like to DX. But eHam just isn't a site for CB and freeband DXers, an activity which is largely extralegal anywhere on the globe.
It's certainly not legal to work 270 11m DXCC if 11m "DXCC" uses the same list of countries as ham DXCC.
By the time you delete all the EU CEPT CB participants and their overseas dependencies and the USA and all it's territories you're going to start really whittling down the list.
Plus, in France, where the original poster "originally" hails from by his profile and probably still hails from by his call prefix, CB's have to be approved and have power limits under that of a RCI-2950.
It's almost certainly an illegal rig there just like it is in the U.S.
And you certainly can't use a Kenwood TS-850 on the CB bands in France.
If you want to make points about us not being overly harsh with other radio enthusiasts, fine, but I'm not going to buy a vague "maybe the laws are different" argument.
73
Dan