In article , chuck
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Hello Bruce,

You must be a lawyer! I suspect that Doug was not
necessarily asking whether his older M710 is covered by the
newer Type Acceptance Certificate. I think he was asking
whether his older, open M710 is Type Accepted under *any*
certificate. This gets all the more interesting since I
believe Icom supplied the open M710s as an option and seemed
to claim they were type-accepted.

It is true that third parties and owners also opened some
M710s and it is an entirely different question whether that
invalidated the type acceptance. Let's stick with the M710s
that Icom sold as open first.

I understand your assertion that IF the early M710s were not
type-accepted in an open version, THEN the type acceptance
could be invalidated even if Icom opened them itself. What
has NOT been established is that there was in fact no type
acceptance of the early open versions. Can any of your
contacts shed any light on that question?


Thanks!

Chuck

Nope, not a Lawyer. I was, however, an FCC Field Agent for a number
of years. I also have been in the Marine Electronics Field for
over 35 years, in various capacities. I am now retired, and just
do Communications Consulting.

I do know a bunch of Communications Lawyers, however.......

Bruce in alaska
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