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Discussion: FCC Advisory on Two-Way VHF/UHF Radios
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You might have missed it, since I think I mentioned it a few pages ago, but this is exactly what is starting to happen. That's why I resurrected this thread.
The sellers are no longer selling the non-Part 90 approved radios, so instead, the manufacturers are firmware locking the frequencies to the ham bands, user expandable, no Part 90 cert needed.I heard my first on the output of a major high level repeater system, as noted in my resurrection post. As of today, a week or so later, I'm up to 8 different groups, scattered all over the 70cm band, and that's just casual listening here in the Mojave Desert.
In a way, as I mentioned previously, this is what the hams deserve, since they were the biggest ones fighting the CCRs. I warned months ago that this would happen, and sure enough, the prophecy came true. At the same time, as a ham, I feel bad that these folks are now invading our bands.
@Hans13 I don't necessarily disagree with some of your points. But they have to be programmed for something, if the manufacturers expect to make money. As I already mentioned, imagine if Uniden FRS radios came unprogrammed from the manufacturer. Venture a guess at how many are going to be returned? So they have to be programmed somewhere. Where the hell to put them all? I don't know.
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In the trash.
There's no requirement that we be a market for these things. If they were marketed, sold and used responsibly, this wouldn't be an issue.
FCC can take care of this.
Ha ha ha!
They did with their memo. A lot of sellers in the US completely stopped selling them after that unless they met Part 90 certification. But now they're just going Part 97 to get around that. Not a whole lot the FCC can do with that, outside of spurious emissions and such.
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