>-=> Joe Delahaye wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
 >
 >JD> I'm being questioned on this, elsewhere, but, I was taught right from
 >JD> the beginning that we could not do that.  We did have modified
 >JD> commercial equipment where you could just put in several crystals and
 >JD> operate legally.  I had one of those.
 >
 > Well, it doesn't logically make sense for a ham not to be able to modify
 > a CB
 > for use legally on 10 metres, especially when they can legally build an
 > identical radio from scratch and use that.


Or convert existing commercial two-way radios to amateur frequencies and use,
something still done today usually for repurposing repeaters.






                       .....Bob, VE5XEF


btw, you did say you're from Bendigo.  Do you happen to know Ross, VK3CE, also
from Bendigo? I've talked with him once or twice albeit briefly, and still
regularly hear him On DSTAR XRF005B


--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50