[Boatanchors] Legal To Sell Or Not?

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

Other replies have stressed the point about ownership, buying, and
selling not being restricted. In the USA there may some bans about some
gear being sold to certain countries (terrorists) but that wasn't the
nature of the questions. The legal details only involve putting the gear
on the air. Manufacturers of whole transmitters for resale - even to
hams - may have to meet type acceptance. That would include the
YaeComWood and most Ten Tec radios. Individual licensed hams do not. Kit
sellers are merely selling a set of parts to those individual licensed
hams so that the licensed hams can build their own radio more easily.
AND..anybody may buy a kit and build a radio. Again..it's the on-air use
that matters. A person studying for their license might buy and build a
kit to be used on the air when their new license does arrive. SWLs also
build their own radios.

When my novice license arrived in the fall of 1980 my radio station was
already powered up and waiting. A check arrived with the same mail. I
tossed the unopened check on the dining room table and went straight to
the radio and had myself a 40 meter CW chat.

Type acceptance was mentioned, too. As hams we don't have to worry about
type acceptance - yet. Some people would love to restrict us to type
accepted radios so as to enrich their own bank accounts at our expense.
That would kill one of the main reasons for ham radio's existence. Hams
buy military radios (often on the cheap) all the time and operate them -
in the ham bands. Even military radios that were not designed to operate
on a ham band as part of their range may be modified to operate in the
ham bands. Hams are supposed to know how to keep their emitted radiation
inside the ham bands and inside the appropriate sub bands. That's what
those exams are all about.

73,

Bill