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Jerry Stuckle · September 2nd 13, 08:02 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.equipment

On 9/2/2013 12:59 PM, wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 9/2/2013 12:01 AM, wrote:

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$100 Hong Kong is $12.89 US; I doubt you will find many VHF marine
radios $12.89 US.

There are amateur radios available for $500 HK. That is not out of
the question.

$500 is 5 times $100, which is the amount in question.

Yup. Glad to see you can do multiplication. Shall we try division now?

And I don't know what other countries use the dollar, but I'm sure there
are.

I already told you what they are.

That's all of them? I know you didn't mention Hong Kong in your earlier
post.

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Which does not mean short stations do not have to be licensed. They
still do.

Yes, but the original question was about monitoring, and no license is
required for that.

No, but then you don't need a transceiver on land, either. A simple
scanner will suffice.

However, he specifically is asking about installing a radio. To me this
means he wants to monitor the *trip*, not the frequency - and to do so
is interested in talking to those in the kayaks. Why else would he be
asking about installing a radio, instead of just a receiver?

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It is exactly the issue. You can't say whether a license is required or
not until you know what country the OP is in.

How much are you willing to bet he is in neither the USA or Canada, both
of which have essentially the same rules.

I'm not willing to bet anything, because I don't make assumptions one
way or the other. And I don't give advice based on facts I don't know.

Also, he said he wanted to monitor on land.

Again - he said he wanted to monitor the trip - not the frequency. And
he specifically asked about installing a radio - instead of a handheld.
To me this means he also wants to talk.

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That does not mean the licensing requirements are the same.

They are for the USA and Canada.

No where did he say where he was from. You are making an unwarranted
assumption.

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I don't think reviews are illegal to operate in any country, though maybe
North Korea...

But you don't know. As I said before, in the U.S., marine stations
still need to be licensed when on land (the same is true of aircraft
radios, BTW).

Which has nothing to do with what I said; read it again.

No, it doesn't have anything to do with what YOU said. But it has
EVERYTHING to do with what the OP said.

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