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.
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