Great video, Buddy. As you mentioned, as hams, we can use these rigs, as long as we clean up their spectral purity. That really shouldn't be that big of a deal. I'm pretty sure we could just properly align these rigs and add a decent low-pass filters for 10 meters.
I'm wondering if you ever considered building a 10 meter FM repeater out of these "radios? " There are a couple of them on 10, and most of them are linked to their 2 meter repeaters, allowing the users to work DX from 2 while driving around in the car. Even if the band is dead, locals can use the repeater, offloading traffic from 2 and 440. All they require is a remote 220 MHz link -- no duplexers at this frequency
-- a few miles of spacing, and a couple of dipoles, and you're ready to rock. Well, they require a bit more than that, of course, but you get the idea.
BTW, I sent the FCC folks in charge of enforcement an e-mail, and I asked them if their was an auction that sold these rigs and other confiscated equipment to hams, and I have yet to get a response. Should I not receive one, I'm going to get some friends of mine in government to find out why this isn't happening and see if they can correct this error
. 73, Randy AB5NI
