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Originally Posted by jim202
Being more to the point, a radio with what is called "FRONT PANEL PROGRAMMABLE" is not allowed
by the FCC except to a very few agencies. Most of them are federal users. So if this animal manged
to slip out to the general user, I would expect that a recall would be in order.
If this radio your talking about is for ham use only, then the radio would be software restricted by
the firmware in the radio. It would not be allowed to be operated in the TX mode outside the ham
frequencies. There are a number of ham band only radios that can operate in multiple bands on
the market right now.
I think we are both saying the same thing here, but just using different words. I would like to
know more about the radio in question though. Mainly which company is it from.
Jim
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I tried to find out where this radio originated from,and DBA are the name and initials of the person marketing it are all I could find. As you pointed out it should not have been given fcc type acceptance,so there's mystery #1. Another is This radio was not given the add/skip feature or a channel select knob but a vfo instead! Whoever intended this thing to be a public safety radio dropped the ball!
This thing is a oddity to say the least so it's probably a good thing they're going back to the manufacturer...whoever that is?
N9ZAS