Not as I understand it.  This has been discussed over and over on the 
Baofeng list, and at that time it was legal for commercial use.  The 
only problem now is commercial stuff has gone to narrow fm.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Mon, 5 Aug 
2013, Harvey Heagy wrote:

> Interesting.  Then technically speaking, it's probably an illegal radio.
> Harvey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m
> and 440 MHz
>
>
>> the baofeng can transmit anywhere it can receive, except the FM broadcast
>> band. When they were submitted to the FCC for type acceptance they could
>> only transmit on the ham bands but, what you get now is very far from what
>> was type accepted.
>
>