"At no time did I say turn on your radio to an illegal frequency and transmit, or use it on a legal frequency and cause intentional interference."
However you did say this which could be taken as endorsement:
"I think some more freeband stories would be great!"
"Freeband stories" often smack of making contact which naturally involve transmitting.
"It could even be an SWL report."
That would be a better way of putting it, however a CB set being a transceiver nobody's really going to use one as an SWL receiver. Are you guys getting my point?
"I would bet most members do illegal things everday with or without knowing..."
You win that bet hands down! I was licensed as KMD7606 in June 1965 and from a few months prior I operated as a unit under an uncle's license KKD9035 which is in itself illegal unless I was talking to him related to his business or personal communications. There's a sticking point under the rules which among several others are illegal even today because while licensing requirement was dropped the rules have not changed. Simply put, if all the rules were followed CB wouldn't even resemble what it has been for the most part all along, a hobby band. Yup, that's the stickiest one of all, hobby use is illegal and so are "noisemakers" to attract attention.
Heh, it didn't take long for me to build a "gooney bird" oscillator and wire in my tape deck as an echo chamber (not for everyday use mind you) so I'm not Little Mister Innocent either. The point I'm getting at here is before the band went to hell in a hand basket the FCC monitoring stations tended to ignore everyday violations and concentrate on "shooting skip" and other far more serious ones like foul language and deliberate interference. The only real trouble we had was with a local resident Field Engineer who had some sort of personal quest going on and the "pink slips" flew thick and fast until a storm of complaints finally put an end to him but that's a story in itself.
"But illeagl or not its there and people want to know so thats why this site is here for info and talk about the subject."
I've seen your point long before you made it and have made mine in several ways before, putting it all together we get to the well known phrase "it's not what you say but how you say it". Because everyone and every situation is different all I can do is outline it, when it comes to what is posted it is left to your discretion guys, be discreet about things that you say. In this way we won't drag Radio Reference through the mud as has become of many once great CB and other radio related publications I gave up on in disgust.
"But practice what ya preach in a area's of life Illegal use of radios speeding j - walking swearing in public. murder illegal rite turns on red."
Care to untangle that mess? (;->)