At 06:49 AM 6/11/2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > > Do people purchase non-FCC-certified commercial rigs and use them on > > the amateur bands? Yes. > > > > Is it legal to do so? No. > >It might be illegal in the US, but it's not illegal in the UK. Over >here, you are responsible for operating your equipment in-band, no-one >else. Certainly not the manufacturer.
Same for Australia, it's the amateur's responsibility that they are operating in band and transmitting a clean signal. I can use any old radio on the amateur bands, providing that I am actually in band, and not transmitting spurious junk all over the place. However, like much of the world, I can NOT use a modified amateur transmitter on another service (e.g. CB, commercial 2 way, etc), because it is not type approved for that service. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
