The FCC gave the local jurisdiction authority to bust the big boys about 4-5 years ago... I pulled my gear after a few people got busted.
I was waiting for the heat to drop and still stay in contact with a few of my CB friends. I might slap the gear back in one day!
Well I would imagine, as I have seen it in the past, no mud-duck ever had any problem with the law, it was the few that could bleed through on business cameras and pa systems that always got tracked down, and that was never an FCC issue, it was always a public disturbance complaint.
In all my years I have never known anyone who actually got criminally charged for anything related to CB radio. I know there was always the big scare, but, mostly a myth, that the law was riding around looking for high powered radios.
I knew cops that had linears in their cruisers, so, I know it was a less than a .025% chance that any law enforcement agency around here was gonna waste their time and gas looking for some dude on a cb radio, heck, they were on there too!
I wonder if Stick is still around, I used to spend a fair amount of time in the backyard shed with him. After he moved across the highway, and I eventually got out of the repair business, I lost track of a lot of people.
And speaking of lighting up Flo. tubes, that was a hoot, we spent more time finding colored amusement park ride tube lights, than I think we spent lighting the bulbs we had, one buddy of mine used to use a plastic protector tube and just strapped it to his antenna and used to ride around town on the weekends with it, the cops we knew, knew him, so, it was more comedy relief for them than a violation. Then we discovered the short 6 inch flo. tubes and everybody had one zip-tied to the tip of the antenna.
