So what about home brew equipment after all our hobby is not just about buying a black box from some massive company in Japan or anywhere else for that matter!
Might be similar to ScheissBrazil, where, thanks to our wonderful idiotic Anatel regulatory agency and Labre sycophants, no HB transmitter nor amplifier is allowed to Tx if not previously "homologated" by the incompetent agents. Quite simple, ain't! Oliver
We are reminded that government is the antithesis of freedom, and no liberties are safe if a government is sufficiently arrogant.
This is so true. We (as in the United States) are a damn good example. Russia would be either first or second next to us.
Here is a link to FCC test reports for the FT-891: https://fccid.io/K6620651X50/Test-Report/Test-Report-CSR-Rev-2-2943132 There are several more documents available on the fccid.io web site. https://fccid.io/K6620651X50
Thanks for the links but this conversation is about Cambodia and their laws concerning what radios they'll allow their amateurs to use. Doubt they'll accept our test results but I think someone posted earlier about they are now allowed to use the 891.
Who are we? We are the United States. Although we make our mistakes, we also have high and much admired ideals. As a Patriot, what do you think we were actually doing in WWII, Korean War, Cold War? We were trying in Vietnam as well. "We are not "Dictating" in this at all. What is right, we should state and we are. Our ideals in the USA, as regards Amateur Radio are some of the highest. I have no problem asking a dictator, not truly elected, if what he is doing is wrong. It is, and to state it's wrong is not a complex thing at all. So that is who we are.
Oh, I remember Cambodia. My 1st encounter with culture when I returned from exile in 1990. Playing on a TV in a cabin on a storm-swept camp- site on the S.Coast. Very keen on genocide. The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than one million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields
Do you remember Cambodia from having spent time there, or do you remember seeing a Hollywood movie about a terrible time in it's history?
Speaking of solving problems at home, how about we finally pass the @#*&! daylight saving time bill and get it signed. Winters are tough already; sure could use an extra hour at the end of the day with sunlight.
Government is not the antithesis of freedom. Imagine what the RF spectrum would look like if there was no government to look over it. It is the government that defines the different bands of operation for each service. We have Amateur radio today because of governments agreeing on international standards on which bands allow for the freedom of experimentation and expression with Amateur radio, and those standards are enforced by the national governments that signed on to these international treaties. I could give many more examples on how governments protect our freedoms but that would likely get flagged for off topic and/or political discussion by our moderators. I'm not claiming governments cannot be oppressive, only that there is less freedom without a proper government. Without government some one will inevitably come along to impose on our freedoms, and if not kept in check that entity that imposes on our freedoms could be the government. There is no perfect freedom because for you to be perfectly free to do as you wish means you have become the entity that deprives others of their freedoms. The protections of freedom comes with agreeing on some rules of behavior, rules that all must follow or we find some being "more equal" than others.
WOW! Should be a zombie thread banner on these old posts... FWIW, I worked Cambodia years ago on 40 CW. I was completely surprised when I got a confirmation thru LOTW soon after the QSO... That is still my one and only contact with Cambodia...
The Khmer are lovely people. ironic enough I’m sitting here, right now, in my hotel room just south of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap central Cambodia. Sadly despite many weeks of trying, some money paid, yet no ham radio license. It seems hopeless to get a ticket for foreigners as visitors. Only residents are allowed a radio permit here in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The good news is the FT891 is approved for use by the locals. Wish the ARRL would do something to help lobby all the ITU member nations to make reciprocity a real thing. That’s a pipe dream. I know. The ARRL is too busy censuring their elected members. Making rules for their meetings and accomplishing nothing to preserve our spectrum. High speed HF trading is clobbering a dx net I’m listening to on 20M via internet web SDR. Same ordeal trying to get a license for Mexico. No reciprocal tickets being issued. it indeed is a privilege to be a ham and be able to operate. let me say too that Captain Dave Taylor XU7AKG / ZL3AIK is a true gentleman and responded to my text messages for additional license info right away. The ham radio fraternity is alive and well globally and continues to exceed my expectations even after 35 years. Really fantastic !! Joe Currently XU7/K9UR
