The FCC did not make them disable it, it was someone else.
If you look at the FCC website, the documentation from Icom included the TV
function.

It's really a moot point now, because everyone is mod'ing the radio now and
enjoying the TV feature.
It was easy to enable...


"Travis Jordan" wrote in message
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Fred McKenzie wrote:
One minor disappointment was that in order for the radio to be
approved for importation into the U.S., Icom had to disable the
feature where it can show standard television channels on its front
LCD display. (In the U.S., it is illegal to have a radio in view of
a driver that can display television.) The version that can, is
apparently only available in Japan. It will be interesting to see if
the radio can be easily modified to re-enable it.

Let's see....the FCC didn't make them disable the TV video display on
the IC-R3, but they did make them disable it on the IC-7000? Someone
might think the FCC is capricious.

ICOM probably could have avoided the problem by simply leaving out the
"battery connections" instructions for the IC-7000. No one at the FCC
would have thought of the issue then.