[Milsurplus] Default freqs

[Charlie L.]

*"Anyone want to hazard a guess as two why so many twits think 147.000 is
now the default 2m simplex frequency?  Because years ago, a Japanese *

* radio manufacturer had their radio default to that, out of the box..." *

Better story...I have a friend that worked for Icom in South Africa several
decades back.   He sold them and he repaired them.  He sold a ton of Icom
ham radio  HF transceivers to companies throughout the bottom half of
Africa, they had been adapted to run outside of the ham bands for
commercial use, but they all came with default hamband freqs in them.  Even
though he notified the buyers that they needed to reset to their assigned
freqs, almost no one ever reset the freqs. and the ham bands over there had
many a truck line, delivery company, varied businesses, all on HF, and the
same freqs.  The African version of the FCC back then might have been a
bear to get a reciprocal license from, but they apparently could care less
about what freq anybody used.

Charlie in NC
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