What's the max legal power for a CB

[AirMoore]

They are basically offering you a CB that has been what is known as a simple peak and tune. An almost universal upgrade to CBs... getting caught with such a modification is almost unheard of... most of the time people with large amps are the ones to get caught... or those that tick off their neighbors... and this stinks on a mobile.

[Lucky225]

And them FCC fines aren't cheap! If you get caught.....

Sound like a familiar paradigm?

Yes, and practically NO ONE gets busted for freebanding CB band so I don't know why the hell people trip on Radar Jamming

Because it's a lot easier for a cop who can't get a reading to spot the offender than it is to find (and for people to care enough to report) an illegal radio user.

Local Law Enforcement != FCC

There's a reason there are STATE laws for jamming radar, and the fines on those are not $10k. There's a reason there are computer hacking state laws and marijuana posession State laws as well, your local LEOs aren't going to turn you into the feds unless it's something major, they're just gonna charge you with the State code and be done with it.

[Motor On]

Gee guys I was just talking about civil speeding not Felony radar jamming.

Amps for CB tend to be cheaply made and leak emissions, making them more obvious to spot than Cobra users to someone else trying to use a CB or cross mod onto nearby 10M ham stations; get enough other users on any band ticked off any you're going to get unwanted attention, either legal or someone cutting your coax or picking a fight or cutting you off. There's some clean amps, but they aren't the norm, and the peaked and tweaked is much more common, and unless it's a botched job is usually not all that noticeable compared to a good quality 4w signal, just the handful more watts do increase the range.

All of this is a mute point without a good antenna though and that is where your emphasis should be placed, esp if you're expecting primary use for countermeasure.