Small counterexample: 11-meter radio. It is trivial and common to turn a 4 watt radio (legal, as sold) into a 25 watt radio. It is not unusual to hear someone bragging about having hundreds or thousands of watts available, and there are, for lack of a better word, notorious base stations just about everywhere. It would actually be really nice, for what's left of the community, if the fcc would actually participate in the band, just a little.