Steven Fritts wrote:

With all these super cheap FRS radios around, is it possible to
reprogram/convert these trancievers to the 440 Amateur band?? I
realize they would be probably simplex but seems if they can make
these radios that cheap, why cant they do the same thing for the
amateur 440 band??

Yes, but for the most part the receive RF performance on the things is
so bad that it's not really worth the trouble.

On the other hand, it's no worse than the folks that used to move 49 MHz
walkie-talkies onto the 6M band. Nothing like writing "Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtle Walkie-Talkie" on the back of the QSL card...
--scott


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