"Larry" wrote in message
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Marine radios have temperature-compensated crystal master oscillators
accurate
to a standard.

Marine SSB's use an oven controlled crystal oscillator, not
temperature-compensated ones. Ham rigs that have a high stability oscillator
use the termperature-compenstated crystal oscillators.

When the 802 is enabled for ham (using the procedure you describe)
will it do both or do you have to toggle it back constantly ?

It will do both. But, make SURE you put it back to channelized transmit
before any Ship Inspections or you'll be busted.

There is no need to do this. It is perfectly legal to put the 802 in open
mode and use it on the ham bands. You do not void the warranty, the type
certification, or break any FCC rules by doing this.

You often hear that marine ssb's are difficult to use on ham, as they
are optimised for a fixed freq setting, and not for the more variable
freq used on ham. How big a problem i that ?

It's not a big problem at all on M802. The older and
cheaper radios don't have this feature making them useless...which is
what caused boaters to illegally use ham radios for marine radios in the
first place....that and PRICE.

You can also easily open up the M710 and M700pro SSB's to operate on the
ham bands and use the channel knob as a VFO control. As with the 802, you
can only change frequency in 100hz steps or greater and it operates as a
detented switch as opposed to the smooth rotary encoder of a ham rig.

Eric