User's Manual Addendum
(3) The name of the person operating at the time of the apparent violation.
(c) If the FCC sends you a letter asking you questions about your CB radio station or its operation, you must answer
each of the questions with a complete written statement within the time period stated in the letter.
(d) You must not shorten your answer by references to other communications or notices.
(e) You must send your answer to the FCC office which sent you the notice.
(f) You must keep a copy of your answer in your station records. (See CB Rule 27, §95.427.)
§95.423 (CB Rule 23) What must I do if the FCC tells me that my CB station is causing interference?
(a) If the FCC tells you that your CB station is causing interference for technical reasons you must follow all instructions
in the official FCC notice. (This notice may require you to have technical adjustments made to your equipment.)
(b) You must comply with any restricted hours of CB station operation which may be included in the official notice.
§95.424 (CB Rule 24) How do I have my CB station transmitter serviced?
(a) You may adjust an antenna to your CB transmitter and you may make radio checks. (A radio check means a one
way transmission for a short time in order to test the transmitter.)
(b) You are responsible for the proper operation of the station at all times and are expected to provide for observations,
servicing and maintenance as often as may be necessary to ensure proper operation. You must have all internal repairs
or internal adjustments to your CB transmitter made in accordance with the Technical Regulations (see subpart E). The
internal repairs or internal adjustments should be performed by or under the immediate supervision and responsibility of
a person certified as technically qualified to perform transmitter maintenance and repair duties in the private land mobile
services and fixed services by an organization or committee representative of users in those services.
(c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, each internal repair and each internal adjustment of a CB
transmitter in which signals are transmitted must be made using a nonradiating (“dummy”) antenna.
(d) Brief test signals (signals not longer than one minute during any five minute period) using a radiating antenna may
be transmitted in order to:
(1) Adjust an antenna to a transmitter;
(2) Detect or measure radiation of energy other than the intended signal; or
(3) Tune a receiver to your CB transmitter.
(Secs. 4(i) and 303(r), Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i) and 303(r), and sec. 553 of the
Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. 553)
[48 FR 24894, June 3, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 20673, May 16, 1984]
§95.425 (CB Rule 25) May I make any changes to my CB station transmitter?
(a) You must not make or have any one else make any internal modification to your CB transmitter.
(b) Internal modification does not include:
(1) Repair or servicing of a CB station transmitter (see CB Rule 24, §95.424); or
(2) Changing plug-in modules which were certificated as part of your CB transmitter.
(c) You must not operate a CB transmitter which has been modified by anyone in any way, including
modification to operate on unauthorized frequencies or with illegal power. (See CB Rules 9 and 11, §§95.409
and 95.411.)