I think the main argument against these regulations and particularly the band restrictions is that they insult our intelligence. Presumably the bureaucrats believe that the fact that, out of the box, a transceiver is restricted to certain bands, means it cannot be used on other frequencies. But *we* know that it is easy to disable these restrictions - with the FT-817, for example, transmit locking can be removed simply by writing to an internal register, and you can freely download a small program from the internet to do it. I think Simon's FT-817 Commander can even do it. It beggars belief that the potentially malicious users of this equipment don't know this too. And other radios can presumably have their band limits changed or removed with equal ease. So exactly what, in practise, do these restrictions achieve?
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