No, you would have to do a mod to get outside the ham bands but a lot of
people have it done in their radios,  I did in 2 of the 3 that I know of and
never checked on the 3rd one.
John Miller N1UMJ
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: Radioes


> Well, I'd be borrowing this one so I'm not sure what its got with it
but...
>
> Can you work outside the ham bands without modification for things like
MARS
> with that particular radio?
>
> Now if that guy will get me the ht to borrow I can get on the air <g>.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP R/D - AU
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Dave Hillebrandt wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 00:02:46 -0500
> > From: Dave Hillebrandt <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
> >     <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Radioes
> >
> > I've always liked the TS440. it was my first rig with speech synthesized
> > frequency readout and big breakthrough with my operating HF. I've
actually
> > had two of them and still have one as backup. Can't go wrong with one
> > especially if you have the CW filter and speech synth alongwith with
auto
> > antenna tuner. never much trouble with them and should be able to find
one
> > at pretty good price i'd think. Dave
> >