CB
Radios - Citizen Band - Brief
Citizens
Band (CB Radio Service) is a private two-way voice communication
service for use in personal and business activities of the general
public. Its communicating range is from one to ten miles. License
documents are neither needed nor issued and there are no age or
citizenship requirements.
You
may operate CB radios within the territorial limits of the
fifty United States, the District of Columbia, and the Caribbean
and Pacific Insular areas ("U.S."). You may also operate
your CB radio on or over any other area of the world, except within
the territorial limits of areas where radio-communications are
regulated by another agency of the U.S. or within the territorial
limits of any foreign government. You may also be permitted to
use your CB radio in Canada subject to the rules of Industry Canada.
Travelers to the U.S. may operate CB radios within the U.S. as
long the unit is FCC certificated.
For
structures, the highest point of your CB radios antenna must not
be more than 20 feet above the highest point of the building or
tree on which it is mounted, or 60 feet above the ground.
Rules & Regulations
The
FCC rules and regulations for CB radios are codified in Title 47
of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). They are initially published
in the Federal Register. The FCC does not maintain a database of
its rules nor does it print or stock copies of the rules and regulations.
That task is performed by the Government Printing Office (GPO).
After October 1 of each year, the GPO compiles all the changes,
additions, and deletions to the FCC rules and publishes an updated
CFR.
The
rules for CB radios are provided in text version and in portable
document format (PDF) and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
You
can check the Federal Register to review rule changes since October
1, 2004. |
