Who can operate long range commercial HF transceivers

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I ran across this article, http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Use-Long-Range-Radio?&id=2005411 which talks about secured transmissions in a long range application. From what I’m gathering, this is a commercial license (vs. amateur license) situation, and encryption can be used with this type of radio.

What I don’t know is what it takes to legally broadcast/receive with a radio of this type?

I’m guessing it’s probably pretty salty with plenty of hoop-jumping, but can anyone give me any specifics of what it would take for a private individual to get and use a radio of the type mentioned in the above article?

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HF communications require an Amateur Radio license. A test is required.

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Good Morning

Not to start out on a negative note - but JWilkers is not entirely true.

There is more then just the Amateur Radio on the HF bands…

Even the telephone company used a type of HF communications for long distance communications at one time or another…

If you look at the FCC band plan - you can see many things in the spectrum of 10 meters to 200 meters.

A lot of commercial users, the government and even maritime - boats and airplanes.

Each requires its own type of transmitter and license.

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Yes, I am aware of the multitude of other services on the HF bands. I was just trying to keep my comments short. There are commercial broadcasters, marine radio, some business use, tons of services.

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never tried such things anytime ever in my life. need advice to start of some of the commercials

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What do you mean by commercial?

I don’t know who published the article listed above - but it might be true in some third world country - I don’t know, but in the USA - we have rules that are set forth by the FCC that governs everything that is broadcasted over the airwaves with more then 1 watt - and other then the government / military / police - themselves - nothing is allowed to be encripted - unless you are using a sattelite that you own - such as Echostar / Direct TV / XM radio etc…

The equipment listed on the web site is CODAN - Codan LMR products are certified to meet the requirements of TIA, P25, FCC, DHS CAP, IC, ACMA…

Amateur radio uses less then 1500 watts - depending upon the frequency and your license class - could be as little as 50 or 100 watts. and does not allow for a one way ( broadcast ) of your signal…

The other services can use more then 1500 watts PEP and at one time required the user to possess a valid General RadioTelephone license - which at one time, was even harder to get then a amateur radio license.

To use anything encryped, the user at each end would have to have the same type of encryption… I wouldn’t be as easy as just buying something and turning it on. The government also uses scramblers - which would make it almost impossible to listen to. And - things such as Open Sky - also requires a user log in name and password.