12 Feb 12 08:56, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
   [Chinese Radio]   
      
    RW>> TW> Illegal. They do not meet FCC standards and the US distributor   
    RW>> must reprogram them to meet the FCC standards.   
      
    RW>> That's what I was thinking when I read that he was buying it from,   
    RW>> and it would be shipped directly from China...unless it includes an   
    RW>> FCC type acceptance validation statement with the radio, I'd steer   
    RW>> clear of it.   
      
    TW> As usual I could not find the Article btu there was a review of a   
    TW> couple of those chineese Radios by Gordon West i nweither CQ or QST.   
      
   I'll believe you.   
      
    TW> It mentioned that the radios needed tweeking to be legal i nthe US   
    TW> because of their Out of Banmd Capabilities.   
      
   That didn't stop Icom, Yaesu or Kenwood from offering such radios. I have   
   an IC-3210a that has been modified (by lifting a couple of diodes from the   
   MB) to transmit out of the HAM bands and also to act as a cross-band   
   repeater. When we lived in San Diego, I used it to talk on commercial   
   radio repeaters owned by a friend of mine in the commercial radio business   
   there.   
      
    TW> Necesary of course becasue they are exported to many countries and   
    TW> the frequencies allowed for Hams can vary between countries.   
      
   In the case of the Icom, above, there are three versions of it. The   
   European version uses different frequencies than those allocated in the   
   US. The Australian version is again, different than either of the other   
   two. My Icom was modded about 15 years ago and still serves me well here.   
   I forget if it will cover the frequencies in the Euro or Aussie radio.   
      
      
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