Rich,
I know of about three brands of "10 meter" amps that carried a certification.
They were single-band amps too. They also skirted the law at one time by
calling them transmitters. They had an external xtal jack with an oscillator
inside. One manufacturer, I wont say who, Tenessee-cough, would give you a new
tube for return of an oscillator board to be placed in another new, uhhhh
transmitter : ) It makes one wonder how they manufactured them as long as they
did even after busts don't it, without someones hands being in the cookie jar.
I do know that the only reason the last few quit was where the GE Owensboro
plant stopped making sweep tubes. The FCC never did stop it.
One of those amp manufacturers actually won a court case against the FCC down
in Oklahoma. After he won, they turned him over to the IRS and tied everything
he had up to shut him down, no joke. There's still a big building down there
with brand spanking new blue and silver cabinets with that old wolf still on
the front. All kinds of parts and new tubes that were put into mothballs to not
be used again. Dont think if you ever piss off the FCC and win, they wont use
other means to burn you in the end. Course you've been there and seen how some
of this goes just on the publishing side of things.
Best,
Will
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On 2/18/06 at 3:39 AM R.Measures wrote:
>Amen, Mark. The only beneficiaries of the 10m-ban were CB technicians
>and the FCC employee (attorney Raymond K_______) who oversaw FCC Type
>Acceptance.
> Under the 10m-ban, CB techs were making c. $100 by wiring around the
>CB-filter that the ban required and moving the 15m tap on the tank over
>one-turn for 11m operation -- a procedure that could be completed by a
>knowledgeable technician in under 10 minutes on most ham amplifiers.
> Under the 10m-ban, since amplifier manufacturers were required to
>have their amplifiers re-certified before they could continue selling
>them, re-certification was needed ASAP. To assist manufacturers in
>this matter, the aforementioned FCC employee offered expedited
>re-certification to manufacturers --- in exchange for a specified
>quantity of green backs passed under the table. Eventually, the FCC
>legal dept. became aware of the fast-track re-certification program and
>made said attorney an offer: resign or do time. He resigned from the
>FCC and got a job with a Washington D. C. law firm.
>end
>
>On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:10 PM, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
>
>>> From the ARRL Letter .. Vol.25, #7
>>
>> "WT 04-140 further proposed to
>> essentially do away with FCC rules prohibiting the manufacture and
>> marketing
>> to Amateur Radio operators of amplifiers capable of operation on 12
>> and 10
>> meters."
>>
>> About time this silly rule was put to rest.
>>
>> 73, Mark AA6DX
>>
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