At 11:50 AM 6/11/2009, Ben Jackson wrote:
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Clint Bradford wrote:
... Also check out the Motorola JT1000 ...
Sure ... Let's discuss a fifteen-year-old HT that has long been discontinued by Motorola ....
So, that proves that front-panel programmable commercial radios have been approved by the FCC for at least 15 years.
Ben Jackson - N1WBV - New Bedford, MA bbj <at> innismir.net - http://www.innismir.net/
A point missed about programable commercial radio equipment is that this was allowed as an "experiment" by the FCC and approval for their manufacture was recinded after a short trial use period. Non-technically trained operators could and did program their radios to operate on top of licensed services such as public safety with severe results.
Lets define programable while were at this. It does not mean a radio that can be changed in frequency to predetermined frequencies. Marine (part-80) radios are pre-programmed with a standard set of channels established for the marine community. Aviation radios can dial in any frequency in 5-KHz steps within the aviation band. But both of these services have been set up by the "authorities" governing them to use certain frequencies within a reserved sub-band.
A programable radio can be set to any frequency that the radio can operate. Commercial Hi-band VHF: 150-174 MHz.