The civilian full legal limit is 4 watts, but you can find people who will bump that up by 11 watts giving you 15 watts of output.
And those guys would be performing ILLEGAL modifications.
Hence the reason why I made the statement "The civilian full legal limit is 4 watts."
I however am also one of a very selected few, who is authorized by the FCC to have such equipment and transmit at high levels using the citizen's band radio.
Never heard of that. Can you cite FCC rules and regs so I can be better informed in the future ?
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I am in the Coast Guard, if you own a vessel that is 7meters or less you are not required to have a Marine Band Radio, most of the guys with the little skiffs, however will take a CB radio with them. The Coast Guard however is not required to monitor any VHF Marine Band channel except for Marine band ch. 16 (156.8mhz). Civilian Marine Band radio's, legal limit is 25 watts, however, the Coast Guards Chicago "High Site" which happens to be on top of the Sears tower transmits at a lot higher wattage. I really don't want to go into detail about exactly what the Coast Guard does in regards to the use of Marine band and Citizen band radios. The radio in question, was only used for Search and Rescue, I bought it, and it was modified later by the electronics technicians in the Coast Guard. I however did not buy the antennas nor the coupler associated with the radio. So I turned those back into the Coast Guard before I left that unit. So to answer your question, I am not sure of the laws or regs in regards to such an issue, I just used what they gave me and I didn't question it.
