"I have a conference call set up for Tuesday with the FCC's OET and another department..."
May I suggest that unless this radio runs full duplex and is proven to have significant sensitivity, there is probably a more appropriate forum than the AMSAT-BB...
One person's time/space consuming effort to ban foreign radio imports belongs on one of the Ham blogs, not here.
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Bradford" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:21 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Illegal - for U.S. - Commercial Equipment
I have a conference call set up for Tuesday with the FCC's OET and another department. We all can agree that "pure amateur radios" are exempt from Part 97 certification procedures. But I will be documenting - with facts and direct legal citations - whether or not U.S. hams can use non-certified commercial gear (HTs that cover 138-170 and/or 400-470) on the amateur bands in the U.S.
I will not be reporting my findings here. I'll post it on my amateur site's blog. And have been approached by two publications (well, two print mags and one online mag) to write an article on this, which is in the works.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS http://www.clintbradford.com 909-241-7666