Rob, I don’t think such an animal exists because of differing certifications.
Ham Radio gear must be certified under part 97 of FCC rules. Maritime is under part 80. Also, maritime VHF is channelized whereas we use frequencies. For example, every VHF marine radio must operate on channel 16 - bridge-to-bridge simplex. Though it may be possible to use a ham rig to operate on the same frequencies as marine, it may NOT be the only radio or the primary radio on the vessel or harbor station for reasons of both type certification and compliance with FCC rules and GMDSS regulations. When the Coast Guard pulls you over and looks, they want to see a certified radio and it operating on channel 16. <grin> 73. N4HPG Amateur Extra GROL 2nd Class Telegraph GMDSS operator/maintainer > On Jul 17, 2015, at 8:58 AM, McClure, Rob K via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > A coworker here at Cameron has expressed an interest in ham radio. I’m going > to help out as much as I can, and point him in what I think is the right > direction. > > He did have an interesting question. He assumed that my Yaesu FT-60 could > communicate on the maritime band. I told him know, but I thought he might be > able to monitor it them. I did a little checking and as I thought, the > Maritime VHF band is higher than the ham band, but it didn’t say if it was > AM, FM, SSB or digital. > > Which brings me to his question. He wanted to know if anyone makes a > 2m/Maritime HT or mobile rig. I thought this might be possible since Icom > used to make a 2m/Aviation HT for a while with an option I believe for a DF > using what I think are called VOR. > > So does anyone know if any one makes or have made (so I might find it at a > ham fest) a 2m/maritime HT or mobile size rig? > > 73 all, Rob, KC5RET > > Rob McClure > Cameron IT Staff > Server Operations > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain confidential and privileged information of Cameron and its Operating > Divisions. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and delete > and destroy all copies of the original message inclusive of any attachments. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > <http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org> Bill Crowell [email protected]
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