TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: amateur_radio
to: Joe Delahaye
from: Tony Langdon
date: 2016-09-20 08:09:00
subject: Re: Wannbe HAM

-=> Joe Delahaye wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 JD> Indeed.  That is where that type approval comes into play   Go out
 JD> of band, and no longer type approved.  Some of them could also be
 JD> turned up some in power, but not by a lot.

Yes, but that only applies to non amateur services here.  So a modded CB is no
longer type approved for CB, but perfectly legal for use in any amateur band
it's capable of transmitting in (by a licenced ham, of course!).

However, the use of land mobile HF radios (4WD clubs/RFDS) on the amateur bands
does not voide their land mobile type approval, because this is not a mod,
simply reprogramming by a dealer.  In face Codan did make a HF radio that had
ham VFO functionality.  It was designed for the hams who travel the outback. 
They could have all of their remote area frequencies and the amateur bands in
the one radio, and the VFO let them tune around the amateur bands freely.

Similarly, Those with a commercial frequency and appropriate radio can get
amateur frequencies programmed in as well, to save installing an additional
radio.  Can't go the other way and use your ham radio on the commercial
frequency though.  There's that type approval thing again. :)


... 100% of people who breathe, die.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
* Origin: Freeway BBS - freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)
SEEN-BY: 633/0 267 280 281 410 412 712/848
@PATH: 633/410 280 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.