Won't happen! Reason: Safety and Security.

All outgoing communication is monitored.

AK, Prison Chaplain

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
I sometimes think up some strange questions that hold my curiosity for
sometime until
I just have to ask someone who might know.
I think I was watching a show on Discovery channel about big prisons, and
the question
occured to be: I wonder if a state of federal prisoner, in for the long
haul, has ever been
granted the priveledge of being able to operate a ham radio in his cell?
I'm sure there's
been a few licenced hams been locked up over the years, and perhaps some
warden
somewhere has been lienient enough to let a guy practice his hobby behind
bars.
Anyone ever heard of such a situation???

Anxiously awaiting replys...

Mike
KD7VRG

it would be a fun project though. Take one or more prison issue radios,
break for parts... and with skill knowledge and ingenuity, turn it into a
QRP TX/RX for any single ham band

wrote:

it would be a fun project though. Take one or more prison issue radios,
break for parts... and with skill knowledge and ingenuity, turn it into a
QRP TX/RX for any single ham band


Most prison.jail radios are standard Commercial Service ICOMs, Yaesus, etc.

I meant the little AM ones the 'con's' have.
homebrew harry has made a 160 RX from one...