Hi, A KX3 user and lurker who is also an FAA A&P mechanic with inspection authorization.
To use any radio transmitter in the aviation bands it must meet standards from and be approved by both FAA and FCC. The bandwidth, power, and emissions requirements are a lot different from amateur equipment. It's probably not cost effective for a producer of amateur equipment to obtain the necessary approvals to operate in the aviation bands. Also, the station must be licensed either as an aircraft or ground station to be legal (usually if the aircraft has existing radios it is already licensed). This is something that is supposed to be verified during the annual inspections. Also a lot of owners of handheld aviation radios ignore the requirements for a ground station license and use it for air to ground comm - it's not something that's heavily enforced and probably not a big issue. Spurious emissions from a non-aviation radio would be, though. Anyway, bottom line is it's OK to have a general coverage receiver that covers the aviation VHF bands, but any transmitter must be approved and the station specially licensed. 73s Ed/WE2H ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
