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Not true - you can easily buy unlocked Baofeng radios in EU and nobody cares. FCC cared because American manufacturers couldn’t really compete on market terms.
by trasz 4y ago
Not true - you can easily buy unlocked Baofeng radios in EU and nobody cares. FCC cared because American manufacturers couldn’t really compete on market terms.
- PeterisP 4y agoThe fact that nobody cares is a lack of enforcement (and exemptions for import for personal use) due to low priority, but it does not mean that it is legal to sell unlocked/unrestricted walkie-talkies in EU - it is not, at least not in all EU countries. For example, last year there was an explicit prohibition on sales of Baofeng UV-5R in Germany (https://www.bnetza-amtsblatt.de/download/72 https://www.bnetza-amtsblatt.de/download/72) and Poland and probably other countries due to out of band emissions causing radio interference.