XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: roger@hayter.org   
      
   Ian Jackson  wrote:   
   snip   
   >   
   > "FCC to modernize Part 95 Regs - GMRS, FRS, CB   
   >   
   > The FCC is to legalize 27 MHz CB DXing and boost power of license exempt   
   > UHF FM Family Radio Service (equivalent of UK PMR 446)   
   >   
   > Under its new Chair Ajit Pai, the FCC is seeking to modernize radio   
   > regulations and is scrapping pointless rules like the 250 km (155.3   
   > mile) restriction on Citizen Band Radio contacts."   
   >   
   > It's that additional one third of a mile makes all the difference. I   
   > wonder if it is at the TX end or the RX end?   
   >   
   > Also, I believe that some people have difficulty in getting even quarter   
   > of a mile.   
      
   I find it a little mystifying that the FCC ever framed a regulation in   
   metric units.  Was it originally some kind of international obligation?   
      
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   Roger Hayter   
      
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