they'll all do that. I'll never buy another yaesu until they make a lot of
improvements in accessibility, customer service, and quality control.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: just an item of interest and an observation
> and the radio itself was nice, i mean it wasn't much for accessible stuff
> but if i got a yaesu again thats what i'd get..i liked where you could
> monitor two frequencies (with about a 5 second stop on each)
>
> if helen keller is alone in a forest and falls, does she make a sound?
>
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, John Miller wrote:
>
>> lots of people open the radios to do that. they're not legal to actually
>> transmit there but doing the modification isn't a problem, people in MARS
>> and CAP especially do that so they can go on their frequencies. I know
>> people who use them on the GMRS frequencies too but they're not supposed
>> to.
>> I tend to just stick for what's meant for those bands. With my luck if I
>> tried it I'd get caught and I'm involved in way too much to lose it all
>> now
>> but I have had radios opened up for that before and they can be.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: just an item of interest and an observation
>>
>>
>>> heck, one of the radios i had, and shortly got rid of, a modified yaesu
>>> ft23r could pick up the cab channels and i am not sure why to this day
>>> the
>>> guy did this, he had it so you could broadcast on that channel..i didnt
>>> say anything but i did notice you could not only listen to all channels,
>>> but you could transmit on them too..
>>> is this how some are or should this guy have been in trouble?
>>>
>>>
>>> if helen keller is alone in a forest and falls, does she make a sound?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Colin McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>>> something wrong with CB frequencies?
>>>> Just cuz they're not hams doesn't mean they should automatically be
>>>> blocked
>>>> from general coverage receivers....
>>>> Same reason many general coverage receivers have the 45-50MHZ band in
>>>> them...not because there is much there, other then baby monitors and
>>>> some
>>>> older cordless phones but because its just part of the general
>>>> coverage...
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Colin
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:35 PM
>>>> Subject: just an item of interest and an observation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone, I have noticed that a lot of the radios I have gotten
>>>>> have
>>>> the
>>>>> CB channels as coverage. I don't listen to them that much, and
>>>>> haven't
>>>>> operated on CB for years, but I have noticed that with my DX-390 and
>>>>> my
>>>> F6a,
>>>>> and my scanners I have CB coverage. I am just wondering why so many
>>>> radios
>>>>> have this? I happened to tune by someone on the CB band this
>>>>> afternoon
>>>> and
>>>>> shall we say he was conducting himself in a way that the ham community
>>>> would
>>>>> frown on.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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