Topband: Maritime gear programmable on ham bands?

[wa3mej at comcast.net]

It is my belief that radios that are usuable tunable or easily reprogrammable (without a trained technician or special software) in the maritime service (and capable of tuning the Ham bands) would be in contravention to current FCC rules and regs.  I may be wrong about this but I know there was a prohibition in the commercial  VHF/UHF bands. However radios that are made exclusively for the DOD bands have no such prohibitions 



Jim 
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