/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1470979
Note that the only radios that the FCC will approve under their equipment authorization process to operate on a wide range of frequencies are under Part 90, which currently prohibits the radios from being programmable from the radio or having a VFO. This means almost all currently available Baofeng radios made after 2013 (when the Part 90 rules were changed to disallow radios that are front pannel programmable or have a VFO) are now illegal to operate or sell, and all future models will either be limited to the amateur radio bands only or lose their VFO and ability to program frequencies without a computer. This also means that modifying any amateur radio equipment to transmit off the amateur radio bands is illegal going forward whether you actually transmit off the amateur radio bands or not.