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altereffect

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I was searching for a long time. I am a new ham. I need to know if it is legal to use a wideband HT1000 or any wideband radio for ham frequencies. I know that the fcc says 5-15Khz but I would love to get better use out of my Motorola collection with ham radio instead of just listening to police and fire with them.

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SteveC0625

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I was searching for a long time. I am a new ham. I need to know if it is legal to use a wideband HT1000 or any wideband radio for ham frequencies. I know that the fcc says 5-15Khz but I would love to get better use out of my Motorola collection with ham radio instead of just listening to police and fire with them.

thanks

The HT1000 will do the 12.5 Khz channel spacing for the new narrowband mandate, but only the DN models will do 2.5 Khz steps necessary for the newer splinter channels in the Public Safety and Industrial Pools. AN thru CN models will only handle narrowband the older 20 Khz. spaced frequencies.

Only Part 90 frequencies in the VHF high and UHF ranges are covered by the narrowband mandate. Ham frequencies are not covered by Part 90.
 

miamimd1

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I just programmed my HT-1000 for MURS use, it is an AN and it will do 12.5khz bandwidth just fine. Ham is not narrow band anyway so yes the HT-1000 will work perfectly fine for HAM. It is a great work radio and is designed to take a beating. Only limitation are the few channels, and the need for RSS.
 
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