"Jay Masino" wrote in message ...
John Galban wrote:
Jim Wier was kind enough to patiently educate me on the subject a
few years ago. The AIM has no regulatory bearing on the use of radio
frequencies. What is legal and what is not legal is determined by the
applicable FCC regs. According to them, 122.85 is NOT a general use
air to air frequency. The AIM table is misleading, in that respect.

I've seen articles in aviation periodicals, AOPA Pilot in
particular, that continue to refer to both 122.75 and 122.85 as
general use air to air frequencies. When I've sent corrections to
the authors, they're convinced that the misleading frequency table in
the AIM is all the justification they need. Oh well :-(

I seriously doubt that the FCC gives a damn, one way or the other. They
have better things to do than chase air to air conversations off of
122.85 (like listening to every single word that Howard Stern mutters).

--- Jay




It'll get to the point of the CB radio stuff someday - used to be you needed a license for the CB, but that disappeared
when they were everywhere...