A fellow ham once was on a trip from Spain to the Caribbean on a sailing
boat. For comms with me and some friends he was using a FT-900, and as a
backup rig he could have used the onboard Icom marine radio, in case his
Yaesu failed. He is not a techie, so i think modifying the Icom was rather
easy. Why should it be any harder than 'opening up' ham gear , e.g. cut out
diodes?
Because commercial gear requires a different certification process that is
supposed to prevent easy modification for use outside of type certification,
and because Ham transceivers do not require that unless they operate on 27
MHz.
If they were built to the letter of the law the simple programming change
would not be available.
Of course this would not stop Ham gear from being converted to marine.
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