New Brand of CB Radio ?

[kb2vxa]

Pat's comment? What's wrong with us having a little fun?
OK, everybody get serious now, MARS/CAP mods are only legal if you're a member of MARS but CAP uses "special" radios these days so that doesn't count. 60M is obvious and in the case of the MK2G which I own BTW you can't get 60M without opening up the transmit VFO to track the receiver. As long as you hold a license to operate it (on ham bands) owning it is legal as long as you don't transmit outside your privileges. Common sense since unless you're an Extra you can do that without modifying it, no?

[KG4CGC]

Pat's comment? What's wrong with us having a little fun?
OK, everybody get serious now, MARS/CAP mods are only legal if you're a member of MARS but CAP uses "special" radios these days so that doesn't count. 60M is obvious and in the case of the MK2G which I own BTW you can't get 60M without opening up the transmit VFO to track the receiver. As long as you hold a license to operate it (on ham bands) owning it is legal as long as you don't transmit outside your privileges. Common sense since unless you're an Extra you can do that without modifying it, no?

And now you can buy a VHF/UHF radio out of China that will transmit on public service bands with no mods what so ever kind of reinforces the idea that you are on the honor system if you hold a ham license but if you're just an average Joe, you may not know that these radios have a real ID, a name that can be traced back to your specific unit ... if you get caught.

[kb2vxa]

Excuse me? When did they start putting the only legal ID, CWID in ham rigs? What purpose would it serve and how to justify the added expense? When did hams start programming them to identify? WHY did they put CWID chips in them, to confuse and annoy repeater users?

"...you may not know that these radios have a real ID, a name that can be traced back to your specific unit ... if you get caught."
Any radio can be "fingerprinted" but in order to be traced the same procedure used to track human prints must be followed. Then if you're an average Joe why go out and buy a radio?

[KG4CGC]

Excuse me? When did they start putting the only legal ID, CWID in ham rigs? What purpose would it serve and how to justify the added expense? When did hams start programming them to identify? WHY did they put CWID chips in them, to confuse and annoy repeater users?

"...you may not know that these radios have a real ID, a name that can be traced back to your specific unit ... if you get caught."
Any radio can be "fingerprinted" but in order to be traced the same procedure used to track human prints must be followed. Then if you're an average Joe why go out and buy a radio?

No. It's a silent ID that can be forensically extracted on the receiving end by LE and 3 letter spook types.

[kb2vxa]

I'll update my last comment; if you're an average paranoid schizophrenic psycho you'll not only not buy a radio you'll live in a Faraday cage and wear a tin foil hat when you go out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4boNyIW-2w

[K7SGJ]

No. It's a silent ID that can be forensically extracted on the receiving end by LE and 3 letter spook types.

SID? Anything like an SBD

[kb2vxa]

Heh, self destruct. You know what happens when you let the invisible smoke out.