skipp025 wrote: > The Kenwood TK-190 portable does go into the ham bands... the > only major fly in the soup is the tk-190 radio wants to be > programmed and operate within a relatively narrow range/band > of frequencies (say up to a few MHz max frequency separation > between high and low end channels, else it protests. You can > jam the frequencies into the radio and it works.. but I suspect > the receive sens will at one point suffer (drop off or go away) > if you try to spread the range out wider than the radio really > likes to go. >
A bigger fly in the soup for this or any LB handheld is the antenna. It's only going to work over a rather narrow segment, and has to be re-tuned to go beyond that. 1-2 MHz would be wide for a low band antenna, due to the loading they have to put in it to keep it from being 4-5 foot long.
