I was wondering the same thing.
An argument could be made that in the last 20 years or so the ambient noise
level has increased by 6 db or more (or pick your number). Everything under the
sun seems to radiate noise from household lighting to the cell phone chargers
to washing machines. The local utilities do a pretty good broadband buzz on
most days just trying to carry AC not data.
It is prudent to be reasonable with your neighbors. The neighbors who live
near you and the ones near you on the bands, but it's also reasonable to have
the capability to rise above the noise floor. So there is nothing wrong with
having an 8K but it does mean the owner needs to be very prudent in it's use.
And having the capability to exceed legal limits will sure be a temptation.
I've always thought the US power limit was set high enough to encourage
amateur's to explore and learn a little about how to generate RF power. There
are a number of ham's on this list that at least got a start toward a career by
playing around with RF and high voltages. These are really now uncommon skills
but still useful in broadcast and accelerators.
Pat
wa4tuk
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "k7fm" <k7fm@teleport.com>
> "I am curious why so many anti-power, anti-amp people participate in an
> amplifier mailing list."
>
>
> Possible reasons:
>
> Taking down names?
> Reading Rich Measures opinions?
> Writing new laws for the FCC?
> The same arguments work for the QRP forum for those abusers who exceed 5
> watts.
>
> Colin K7FM
>
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