[Kenwood] TS850 freq. Transmit changes for marine use

[Jack - K4WSB]

FCC regs are quite clear.  During a Coast Guard inspection if you have a 
license displayed you'd better have a type accepted radio to go with it.
Your Ham ticket does not give you authority to transmit in the marine band.
Of course, in a stated emergency you may use whatever means you have at 
your disposal.
Power: I belive is either 25 watts or 100, I don't remember.
NETS: A marine ham net on ham frequency's has absolutely nothing to do with 
a transmission in the marine frequency range.  There are NO nets held in 
the marine bands.
BTW: Modifying any radio to transmit outside the certification range (other 
than MARS) is most certainly illegal.

At 11:38 AM 5/5/2005 -0400, waldan at cox.net wrote:
>I don't mean to contradict you because I am by no means an expert on this 
>issue but comparing a ham rig modified to marine to a ham rig modified to 
>TX on the CB band is like comparing apples to oranges. There are major 
>differences in the two. On thing the CB band is limited to 4 watts AM and 
>12 watts SSB and most convertable ham rigs can far exceed that. As for the 
>marine band I don't think they have the that low of a max regulated power. 
>I think it is much closer to the max ham rated power. I do know of many 
>marine nets that are conducted on the hams bands so they can't be that far 
>off of each other. I would have to see it in writing to believe it is 
>illegal. But this again is just my reconing and not known fact on my part.
>
>Wally
>KD5ZJP
>
> >
> > From: KD5NWA <kd5nwa at cox.net>
> > Date: 2005/05/05 Thu AM 10:34:46 EDT
> > To: wbrown at redback.com
> > CC: kenwood at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Kenwood] TS850 freq. Transmit changes for marine use
> >
> > Marine Band equipment needs to be FCC certified, which a modified TS-850
> > will certainly not be.  Making such modifications is just as illegal as
> > modifying it to transmit on the CB band. I would hope that no one on this
> > list is indifferent enough to assist in such endeavors.
> >
> > Buy a certified Marine radio!
> >
> > At 06:21 PM 5/4/2005, Walt Brown wrote:
> > >Has anyone, or does anyone know anyone who has any idea how doable it 
> is to
> > >allow the TS850 to transmit on the marine frequencies.
> > >
> > >

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