[ICOM] 60 Mtr Operation with ICOM 746

[Larry Young]

AT the time the 746 was designed and FCC approval given , 60 meters was not a ham band. Icom there fore can not change the design on that radio for its customers with out voiding that FCC approval. For operation for customers intending to use it legally within certain adjacent frequencies such as CAP and Mars, that may be within those approval limits. I am not sure.
Larry K4LXV

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [ICOM] 60 Mtr Operation with ICOM 746
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: sales at icomamerica.com, hr at icomamerica.com, "Legal Advisor" <CcSelene7 at earthlink.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 3:22 PM

Although that may be a concern with some older radios of certain design,
Icom's excuse was:

"told by ICOM if I had a MARS license and sent them a copy, they would
supply the information on how to make the tuner function."

indicating that Icom accepted and supplied modifications allowing the radio
to function within or near licensed amatuer bands including 60m does meet
FCC type acceptance requirements for that model (unless they are offering
illegal modification information) but they wish to exclude their customers
from the full capabilities of their equipment without evidence of
requirements no licensed radio operator is under obligation to obtain.

As I stated, quite accurately, "60m is a Ham band and does not require a
MARS license".

Maybe if somebody offered some corporate shmuck $50 for the mod...  Try to
bypass their apparant fraud, intimidation and coercion tactic, go straight
to bribery, see if that gets better results...

Kurt

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