Re: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios
What is worse is the frs gmrs. Businesses have stopped buying the $400-$600 2-way portables to use the $59 frs units. This has devistated my 2-way business. You cann't call the F.C.C. on your customers or the will never buy from you again. Yet the F.C.C. will not do anything about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, as a ham you can USE those radios, however, they cannot be legally imported into the U.S. Period. The community forums at E-Bay are full of stories of people who have bought them, only to have them confiscated by Customs. And then they're S.O.L. E-Bay keeps pulling the ads, but they pop up again like weeds. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 - Original Message - From: Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios [snip] As Hams we can operate these rigs. However, they are not type accepted for the US and think use in commercial can be a problem even GMRS or MURS. The largest market for these rigs are the mom and pop businesses needing some sort of HT comm. I am not sure what customs would do with these if they knew of the non-type acceptance. Might be a problem, but mine came thru with no problem. Takes about 10 days for coming from far east, think China or Tiwan. 73, ron, n9ee/r
[Repeater-Builder] china made radios
i have a ht that was made in china and sold in tiwone spelling? it was/is 60 shiped 136-174 mhz 5 watt the worst part in the man. butt for the price i love it lots more radio for the buck 1/2 the price of a yasue sorry for the offtopic i will shut my mouth At 08:15 PM 7/5/2008, you wrote:
Re: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios
I also purchased 2 of the HTs, one for VHF and one for UHF. I chose the FDC units at $59.50 shipping included although there are others. The VHF covers 130-174 xmt and rcv. The UHF covers 400-474 xmt and rcv. Both are keyboard programmable, have 99 memories and come with a desk top charger that can charge battery attached or detached from the HT and runs on 110-240 VAC. A spare batter is $11.50. They have CTCSS and DCS and except for not having a DTMF pad they have lots of usable features. They will also do repeater offset programmable up to 10 MHz. I am not sure if they will do 12.5 or 6.25 kHz tuning. The manual, same for VHF and UHF, is in English and think Japanese and is about 15 pages each. The manual explains little about what does what, only how to setup to do whatever. Tells you how to prog CTCSS tone, but has little info on what CTCSS is. Same with rest of features. One can see these HTs at www.radiogearpro.com. The cost includes shipping. I use these on the Ham Bands, but another reason was for ARES/RACES/ACS operation. In a disaster one will need to talk with other agencies, even the power company. These can be setup in the field for this. As Hams we can operate these rigs. However, they are not type accepted for the US and think use in commercial can be a problem even GMRS or MURS. The largest market for these rigs are the mom and pop businesses needing some sort of HT comm. I am not sure what customs would do with these if they knew of the non-type acceptance. Might be a problem, but mine came thru with no problem. Takes about 10 days for coming from far east, think China or Tiwan. 73, ron, n9ee/r From: safemale1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/06 Sun AM 03:39:33 EDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios i have a ht that was made in china and sold in tiwone spelling? it was/is 60 shiped 136-174 mhz 5 watt the worst part in the man. butt for the price i love it lots more radio for the buck 1/2 the price of a yasue sorry for the offtopic i will shut my mouth At 08:15 PM 7/5/2008, you wrote: Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
Re: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios
Yes, as a ham you can USE those radios, however, they cannot be legally imported into the U.S. Period. The community forums at E-Bay are full of stories of people who have bought them, only to have them confiscated by Customs. And then they're S.O.L. E-Bay keeps pulling the ads, but they pop up again like weeds. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 - Original Message - From: Ron Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios [snip] As Hams we can operate these rigs. However, they are not type accepted for the US and think use in commercial can be a problem even GMRS or MURS. The largest market for these rigs are the mom and pop businesses needing some sort of HT comm. I am not sure what customs would do with these if they knew of the non-type acceptance. Might be a problem, but mine came thru with no problem. Takes about 10 days for coming from far east, think China or Tiwan. 73, ron, n9ee/r
RE: [Repeater-Builder] china made radios
Many buy them for APRS cheap radio's and they last , many are years back in techno but they do the job we ask them to do. you always have for what you pay,these are not Yeasu or Kenwood,,,or Motorola. the warranty,hey hey ,,,30 feets or 30 days,,,first coming :-) gervais http://www.emoticonesgratuites.ca/?icid=EMFRCA120
