Along the same lines I believe any efforts regarding this is work done in
vane. There is
very small percentage of CB operators that actually buy directly from the HF
linear manufactures or dealers. Most CB operators buy amps design for CB and
the ones who do run Amateur equipment buy there amps from Hams who are
selling there equipment second hand. In my opinion, it is wasting
time in the direction that they are going. The CB operators that
finally do come to the conclusion that they want a cleaner running station
eventually spend allot of money on higher grade equipment and graduate(if
you want to call it that) to Amateur service. So with that in mind perhaps
embracing your fellow CBer by educating him on the advantages of moving up
into the Amateur service and the benefits of being a Ham in a more
constructive approach to your problem.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hix W4TH <w4th@webtv.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: [AMPS] Amateur amps on 11 meters
>
> There have been several messages lately about amps designed for amateur
> use being used on 11 meters.
> In my humble opinion, I think it will be hard to get the legitimate
> manufactures of amateur amps to do anything to prevent this until the
> FCC is willing to go after those manufactures who are designing and
> selling amps specifically designed for the cb band.
> I did a search on one of the search engines under CB AMPS, and below you
> will see just a small fraction of the listings I was able to find.
> If these amps are indeed illegal, and are as easy to find as doing a
> search on a search engine, why is the FCC not doing anything to put
> these guys out of business?
> If you have a few minutes, take a look at some of these pages. One
> manufacturer was calling his amps CW transmitters, and all of them say
> their products are for export only. Yeah right! But it looks like these
> guys make them all the way from 100 watts to 100kw!!! I even saw one
> page that showed two trucks pulling trailers with engines mounted on the
> trailers, that were used to pull just the alternators used to power the
> amps. The story along with the picture said between these two mobile
> stations they had a combined output of over one quarter of a million
> watts!!!! It seems these cb'ers have what is called a "shootout" where
> two mobile stations will park side by side, and a monitoring station
> will be set up some distance away, and the station who has the best
> signal at the monitoring station wins the "shootout". The last link at
> the bottom shows some of these big "shootout" stations in operation.
> They actually made movies of them in action. The only trouble was there
> was so much RF in the air it was causing the video tape recorder to
> eject the tape when the big boys were transmitting! I wonder if any
> researchers have ever done a study to see what the occurrence of brain
> tumors are among these guys who set there a few feet from all of that
> RF? They talk about drugs frying your brain, can you imagine what
> 100,000 watts on 11 meters 3 ft away from someone's head can be doing,
> WOW!
> I sent Mr. Hollingsworth an email about these "shootouts" sometime back
> with a list of all the upcoming events for this year. I told him I sure
> would like to be there at one of these things if he would just show up
> one time. I think if he would just show up at one of them, there would
> never be another, or at least not for a long time.
> But until the FCC does something about these kinds of dealers, I doubt
> very seriously the legit manufactures are going to do anything to stop
> their amps from turning up on 11 meters. I cant say as I blame them.
> That's just my opinion.
> 73
> Tom
> W4TH
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