On 18 Feb, 06:11, Larry wrote:
"Steve" wrote groups.com:

and marine bands (after appropriate doctoring)

If they catch you using ham gear on the marine bands, they'll take your
ham license and ship license and fine you bigtime. It is something to
consider. Unless your 706 or Yahoo has the high stability master
oscillator, it isn't stable enough for marine band use, which is why it's
not approved.

Thanks for this.

I should have mde it clear. It will be used for ham, including pactor,
and for receiving weather. However it will be modfied to give access
to marine HF. In case of emergency I want all options available. But
it will not be routinely used on marie bands.

The M802 is too big, too heavy and too expensive for my purposes.