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Does anyone know if it's legal to use the scrambler function on this particular radio, with a HAM frequency?
§ 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
(4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act; messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification.
Does anyone know if it's legal to use the scrambler function on this particular radio, with a HAM frequency?
Well are there millions of different possible scrambling keys like a Motorola, or is there just a button with a scrambling on/off with only 1 key, so anybody who owns the same radio would be able to communicate. Then you're not trying to keep communications private, as every Anytone can communicate with others. Sort of like using P-25 on ham, where analog only users wouldn't be able to hear the P-25, but anyone with a P-25 radio would hear it.
So bottom line, legal or not?
If it were illegal, why does US Customs allow the radio to be imported? Wouldn't the firmware in the radio automatically turn off the inversion on ham freq's? Wouldn't the FCC have noticed this while testing the radio before issuing FCC approval? Just thinking outloud.