Dear Dave,
This is too simple what you say here.
Let me please explain something to you, from my side of thinking. As many, (if not a majority of the US-ham's), you are speaking as the FCC-rules are mandatory for the whole world. That is not the truth!
In the EU all "amateur-radio-people" (you? call them "ham's") do not even has to have the "CE"-sign, that will make you 'believe' that all the regulations for EMI or other "things" has to be o.k with the "device" you are buying.!
It is a kit, and as a kit, no regulation will fit in the EU for an radio-amateur-operators and the things they are buying/building! You are responsible for your own, what are you doing! (building/set on air/"bring it to life") Fullstop! Nothing to say any more here. (and for the most of the world/maybe expect for the USA)?
You are a skilled and an approved person, in the term of the legal justice in the EU (by an example,... I think same in the US. )
There are a lot of of regulations/rights, you have to respect, and there are a lot of rights you have, while you are an "expert" and approved person! You will be protected by them (the regulations), and you have to respect them also. It is a kind of giving and taking (this? is the way it is, in the EU )
The "kit" Hans will deliver, will not be a complete "radio", with a FCC-number on it, like a "family radio", or the European pentant in the 466MHz band, or even a "regulated" CB-radio.
YOU have to complete the radio, and YOU are responsible, what you will send in the air,
YOU are the "proven" person! Not Hans.?
Please open your mind, and respect what other people think and do, also if it will not fit your sense of thinking, it must not be wrong,..
Peace! - We are a group of liberal and open minded people, we live in the south, or the east, also in the west, even in the north, no yellow, no green, no blue, no he/she/it, no left, no right, we are the whole world, only people, we are 'HAM' s, - amateur-radio operators. -?
English is not my native tounge. So please, be friendly with me, if you find any mistake I made, in spelling or grammary, or the damned stupid? 'Android-keyboard' here makes, with the "German" - setting.
73 de db9pz ; Markus
(HAM / licensed since 1989 ,born in 1962)
Markus