[Elecraft] foreign travel with radios

[Charles Harpole]

There may be a difference between importing and register of a transmitter in 
any one country or another and just passing thru with it.

I have taken my IC 706 thru several countries where it may or may not be 
allowed but separate it into 2 parts and move on thru the airports to 
another destination.  Staying somewhere with it is another matter for 
individual discretion, of course.

Countries I know about with limits on carrying transmitters into their 
borders....
Thailand
Burma
Lao (Laos)
Cambodia
India
Bhutan
Nepal

just to name a few.

Why are nations nervious abt xmitters in private hands?  Well, fighters in 
Burma are reported to use ham rigs for military traffic.  Certainly, the ham 
bands in SEAsia are cluttered with non-licensed operations using ham rigs 
for private telephone-like use.  Sometimes more of that on 20m more than 
licensed ham uses!  At least they use the "other" sideband.

73
Charles Harpole, HS0ZCW (VU3CHE, A52UD, XW1UD, 9N7UD, V26V,  ETC.)
k4vud at hotmail.com

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