I think as a Ham, you can use anything you want on the Ham bands. As a manufacturer to sell it, it may need type acceptance for the service it is intended to be used in.
Lots of people use aviation HF rigs on the Ham bands and you can use an amp that works on 11M or with more than the allowable gain. A manufacturer can't sell that for use in the Ham bands, but an individual Ham can use anything as long as it is operated within the regulations. I know a friend that has a huge amplifier capable of maybe 10kW. He got a visit from the FCC (long ago, don't think they care now). He showed them how it was correctly operated within the regs and how he had the ability to measure it and assure it was. The FCC guy wished him a good day. Other services where the operator is not technical and has not passed a technical exam require radios type accepted for that service as I understand things. 73, Mark W7MLG On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 7:47 AM Lyn Norstad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe Bob wants to use the Envoy 2 on the ham bands. I'm not familiar with > the Codan line of military/business transceivers, but I see that model does > have transmit coverage from 1.6 to 30 MHz. > > Perhaps the real question is whether it would be legal to use that rig on > the ham bands. Since it can apparently cover the 160 - 10m bands without > modification, wouldn't it need to be type accepted? > > 73 > Lyn, W0LEN > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Goldberg > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 9:09 AM > To: Bob Morgan > Cc: Elecraft Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA 500 Codan Envoy > > That is not a Ham radio. Is it legal to use an amplifier type accepted > for Ham radio for other services? > > 73, > > Mark > W7MLG > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:49 AM Bob Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like to know if any in the group has used the KPA 500 with a Codan > > Envoy 2. Any help would be much appreciated. > > Bob Morgan > > KJ4SV > > 865 207 9568 > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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]
