Elecraft sells ham radios. If you have a MARS license Elecraft will provide you will instructions to enable that on your K3 or KX3. There have been no reports from someone with a legitimate MARS license being denied that support from elecraft. All it takes is an email or call to tech support. Give it a rest.
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 7, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Denis Dimick <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you can't hack it you don't really own it, your just renting it. > On 7 Apr 2015 15:32, "Harry Yingst via Elecraft" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I used to be a Mars Operator many years ago while in the Navy. (I was a >> shipboard MARS operator). >> >> I do agree that it should be a Menu item, Having to get approval from the >> manufacturer for a piece of equipment that I Own does not sit well with me. >> (and is the reason I refuse to do business with another well know radio >> vendor, over this very point). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Mike Morrow <[email protected]> >> To: >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 2:48 PM >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 2-30 MHz Transmit? MARS >> >>> ...Military Amateur Radio System... >>> ...Military Affiliate Radio System... >>> ...Military Auxiliary Radio System... >> >> MARS has stood for *all three* of the above proposed phrases since its >> creation after WWII for the Army and (later) Air Force as a formal >> organization of military and amateur stations operating on military >> frequencies to handle written and phone patch traffic for military >> servicemen. Because an amateur license was used only as an individual's >> technical qualification for membership while MARS conducted none of its >> business on amateur frequencies, AMATEUR was changed to AFFILIATE shortly >> thereafter. The Navy/Marine Corps finally created its own MARS in the >> early 1960s. Throughout the first 25 years of MARS's existence the primary >> task was to serve the serviceman as one of the limited means he had to >> communicate rapidly with his family. That mission was last carried out to >> any great extent during the Vietnam war. MARS has had to create an >> Emergency Communications mission to justify its existence since. About a >> decade ago, for reasons best understood by builders of bureaucr >> acies, AFFILIATE was changed to AUXILIARY. MARS HF gear as yet does not >> need to meet NTIA specs. >> >> Once "CAP" was often cited along with MARS...the Civil Air Patrol operates >> HF/VHF nets similar to MARS, on Air Force frequencies. But about a decade >> ago CAP required communications equipment to meet NTIA specs...something no >> ham gear is going to meet. >> >> With respect to the issue of a manufacturer artficially limiting the >> transmit frequency coverage of its equipment to ham bands only, I find such >> an attitude paternalistic and condescending. It plainly conveys the >> attitude that the customer is too stupid to avoid improper or illegal >> operation of the equipment. There should be a menu item that allows either >> full or ham-band-only coverage. That is all. I have over several decades >> found full band transmit coverage to be routinely useful for test signal >> generation in addition to MARS work. >> >> The manufacturer should not presume to become enforcer of regulations. >> >> Mike / KK5F >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
