Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To : Joe Delahaye
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Wed Sep 21 2016 08:28 am
-=> Joe Delahaye wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
JD> It has been a very long time since I even used a CB, so, as another
JD> friend suggested, I may indeed be wrong about what I am pretty sure I
JD> was told, but probably just mis-interpeted because of my license class
<G>
No probs. :-)
JD> I wonder if that is available here as well. I havent kept up with the
JD> latest tech. Got a new 2 meter a while ago since mine bit the dust
JD> after a lightning strike nearby. It acually didnt hit the radio, but
JD> rather the PS which fried the radio when I turned it on :( Insurance
JD> paid for both. -
Well, there would be comercial gear you could program up for ham use. The DMR
guys do it all the time (many are into Motorola, I use Hytera, all commercial).
Just that I don't have any non ham frequencies in the Hyteras, because there's
none I'm interested in the radio's frequency range.` Doesn't quite get to UHF
CB, where they'd likely be legal as they meet the specs, and at least in the
past, commercial radios capable of being programmed to 5W or less were legal,
if properly programmed.
