[Kenwood] Modified VHF/UHF rigs

[Walter Daniels]

Actually Darrell, you are incorrect in that statement. The radios that are 
able to be modified for out of band TX are designed to TX out of band or the 
capability would not be in the radio to be brought out with a snip snip of a 
diode. Most ham radios are designed for operation in many countries not just 
the United States. In these countries they have different laws governing 
radio operations . In many countries operating in these bands that are 
illegal here are legal there so the radio manufacturers lock out the 
functions that are illegal in the countries they are selling the radio in 
hence the A and E designations on many radios with A being America and E 
being Europe. So to be completely technical and in all honesty the radios we 
buy here are already modified from the factory and hams unmodified them back 
to original design specifications.

Wally


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VA3DG" <va3dg at rogers.com>
To: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Kenwood] Modified VHF/UHF rigs


Paul K4PDM, wrote in part:-

***Modifying rigs is one of the things hams traditionally do.......***

To which I reply, "I will never buy another used Amateur radio, for fear 
that it has been 'modified'."

I buy radios for what they're designed by the manufacturers' engineers to 
do, not by what somebody thinks they should do and then messes around 
internally with them.

Cheers....
Darrell
VA3DG/VE3DDG

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