¿ªÔÆÌåÓýFunny that they'd enforce that rule against India (and possibly those Chinese HTs), but I have see it enforced at hamfests only a couple of times - and I was ticketed in 1980. For the first several years I had a ticket, the best I could do as far as a radio was already old CW stuff and a 2m mobile.? Sales to non-Hams drove the price of HF rigs way out of reach - even today, my 'best' HF rig is an old Alinco - I couldn't afford anything nicer or newer. When I finally DID get a rig (in the late 80s), I had to undo
some of the DUMBEST 'mods' you could imagine.? Eliminating ALC is
usually one of the first things a CBer does to an HF rig (after
making it so that they could use it on 11 meters). It's an old problem, and I agree with proof of license upon sale and wish it was enforced more.? However, having worked in a couple of radio shops (General Radiotelephone license too), I know that some of them (maybe a lot of them) regularly sell to unlicensed people and the prices they got made used rigs... impossible. I hope that they don't shut down the BITX radios.? Since the foreign broadcast on 40 has been so curtailed, I would love to put a 40m SSB rig in my car (I have the BITX-20, but it drifts so much in the first 30 minutes that I usually arrive at my destination before it's usable).My two cents... Bob N4FBZ On 05/11/2017 10:52 AM, Raj vu2zap
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Basically the problem is that some sellers are selling ham equipment to non hams and creating a problem for us. |
