| Author |
Message |
    
307 (307)
| | Posted on Monday, June 04, 2001 - 6:26 am: | 
|
I get tons of email with some of the same questions. For those of you that HAVE to have a radio that puts out over 50 watts , the question is "Can I buy Kenwood or Yaesu and convert it myself?" The answer is YES ,and you can convert it a lot faster. Most (Not All) are simple keystrokes on the front panel to enable ALL bands for transmitting , This is NOT legal to transmit out of band on a Amateur Radio , however I am answering the question ONLY. Don't let Amateur Radio Users tell you that this is so called "BAD" because most if not all Amateurs modify their radios the day they get them to enable MARS/CAP. The WORST case modification to an Amateur Radio is to remove 1 or 2 chip resistors and then do a few keystrokes on the front panel. I do not encourage you to modify an Amateur Radio , however you asked. ALL of them can be done with ease. |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 10:21 pm: |
|
307 it is not illegual to modify a ham radio for mars cap ect some people take me wrong but i do not beleve that the use of non cb radios helps the problem if the cb opperator wants more than 4 watts he is free to advance to some form of ham radio license You are correct it is not hard to modify most radios for wide band transmitt but you know and i know that if you can transmit on say 40 meters WHY NOT? it is not fair to say " HAMS MODIFY THE RADIOS " and apply it to illegual use by cb and other opperators since they are useing the radio under a license
bruce |
707
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11:37 pm: |
|
Bruce - I know plenty of licensed hams who modify their 2 meter radios to cover the 149-174MHz band. They also transmit there, because its a lot cheaper than buying commercial business radios. I'm one. I used it to monitor a RPU frequency. |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11:51 pm: |
|
707 i brought this up to gary at the fcc and have a letter from him stateing that it is not illegual to modify the radio but it is illegual to use the radio as you are stateing. you cannot use a ham radio on say 154 int freq or on the marine freq it is not type accepted for these services if you are cought you will risk your ham license. it is not illegual to lissen he made that plain but under no fcc rules are you allowed to transmitt outside of 2 and cap or mars. if you know someone remind them that they are in violation of type acceptance and have no grounds to stand on if caught.
bruce |
Skullman
| | Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 1:49 pm: |
|
Here's a question for you guys. Let's say you have modified a ham radio to talk on CB band. You have the proper licsence to operate it on ham bands. Is it illegal to trasmit on 11 meter CB if you use the proper mode, eg. AM SSB no FM. And turn the power down to FFC rules of 4 watts? If you did this the radio would be nothing more than a CB, so why would it be illegal? Just wondering.
DEADMAN INC. |
|
