A timely reminder - Non compliant radio equipment!

Hi John
Lots of stuff available up in China and very cheap...have reisted the temptation so far and this is a good reason to continue to do so!!

John,
I can remember them monitoring our VHF radios in the 90's. They would sit up the track and just see what frequencies you were licensed for and which ones you were using.

I haven't seen them for years now so it looks like they are back and looking. I have no problem with that and I do know why they are trying to keep a standard.

RA.

Hardly a big deal. So a few people have dodgy radio's. There are far worse things to get ya knickers in a twist over. I would be surprised if anyone of importance would be using them.
Bob

I will soon be purchasing a UHF radio, to take on my trip, if I purchase from a reputable retailer (in Aus) am I good to go? Are you saying I need a license to use certain channels?

Good to see.

Back when the Galaxy mob first hit the scene with their sat TV, I got one hell of a noise all across the HF spectrum with peaks every 15Khz. Got the RI out and they found that it was the unshielded 68000 processor in the Galaxy set top box. It was so bad that the RI said that it could have interfered with a nearby heart pace maker and god knows if it was in a hospital. The box was immediately shut down and Galaxy was told to fix them all. They fixed mine but it took a complete grounded metal casing around the whole thing. They went out of business soon after that.

This is a case of something transmitting when they were not licensed to do so. Same as those blokes with the illegal radios. What if I had my pace maker back then. Kind of scares me. And we have people making little of illegal CB transmissions. Good on the RIs.

Phil

Does'nt sound like the usual UHF we all use. More like the emergency services freq. or police.