Richard Casady wrote:
On 01 Sep 2007 17:57:37 GMT, steamer wrote:

You don't need a Marine Radar, which you can't use on Land anyway. You
--Clueless me: why can't I use a marine radar on land?

Against FCC regs. A guy stepped off the boat onto the dock with a
marine band handheld. $8000 fine. The license was for the boat, not
the individual radios separately. Hence unlicensed anywhere else.

Casady

No flame intended, but that simply cannot be so. If possessing a marine
band handheld on land were illegal, it would be impossible to sell them,
or assuming that you own one, it would be impossible to remove it from a
marine environment as most folks do with their boats in the winter. You
certainly cannot transmit on marine frequencies on land, but I doubt
that you cannot own one and remove it from your boat. Furthermore, FM
radios don't even come with an application for an FCC license. I don't
think licenses are required for FM. I don't know about the single
sideband radios used at sea. They used to require licenses (I had one),
but I don't know if they still do.
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Larry
rapp at lmr dot com