Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 -=> Quoting Tom Walker to Joe Nicholson <=-

 JN>  
 TW> Not quite true Joe. Hams modify VHF Hi commercial units
 TW> for the 2 meter Ham band all the time.

 JN>  The 2 meter band falls between the military and VHF-HI band,  so
 JN> the covertion's much easier.  And Hams have the expertise  that
 JN> most others don't possess.  They can calculate values,  wind coils,
 JN> and select capacitors, crystals and the other
 JN>  components to make a convertion work.

That's the sort of thing I was talking about when I brought it up in the
first place.  While I don't consider myself at that level of expertise,  I
think it's possible I may get there someday.  But at this point I've not
enough experience with that sort of conversion to know what's practical and
what isn't.

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