On 7/5/2013 12:17 AM, Brett Friermood wrote:
Replacing the air band radio with an amateur grade FM radio would be rather useless when trying to communicate with aircraft on VHF-AM. I'm sure Josh has a perfectly valid reason for using that radio.
Aware (painfully) of the diffferences, having owned a certificated (ie could yellow-tag nav/comm/xpdr/mb/ils/etc) avionics shop years ago...right about the time GPS came along (the KLN-88 was the hot navigation device way back then...). As long as the proper precautions were taken to not cross-service connect...one service does not require an operator certificate (unless traveling outside the US, in which case a restricted radiotelephone op permit, IIRC, is required, though the aircraft station is licensed (call sign is the N number)), the other requires both an op and station license. IOW, you can't use 122.9 (multicom) as a simplex channel to bring up your 145.25 repeater and talk to your mates....;) Wasn't questioning what he was trying to do, just the mode, interface differences, and equipment that he was using to do so. bb