In a message dated 8/1/05 10:37:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
wlfuqu00@uky.edu writes:
OK, I have got to reply.
Most of the hams that build amplifiers for 11 meter operators and
those that know little about RF are illegal CBers that have taken the
relative easy exams and gotten ham tickets and are operating their ham rigs
on CB and Ham bands.
Unfortunately, those demons were out of the box LONG BEFORE incentive
licensing and no-code licensing came along!
The amateurs that started this mess were already building and selling
illegal (non-type accepted) sweep tube linears back in the 60's!
Most of the original culprits are dead now but they died wealthy!
I know because I am old enough to have been around in those days and know
that a lot of them were built in Illinois, and many were built right here in
the Joliet area.... The other 'hotspots' were Scottsbluff Nebraska, Wawassee
and Elkhart Indiana, Memphis Tennessee, and a number of places in New Jersey
and California.
Hams that make amplifiers for illegal CB use and those
that use their ham gear out of band are the most despicable in my mind.
I agree with you completely!
I also feel the same way about hams complaining 'after the fact' about a
monster that was created entirely by greedy ham operators trying to sell their
old low band HF AM 'boat anchor' equipment for as much money as they possibly
could just so they could get into VHF FM, and the associated repeaters,
which was the wave of the future back then.
That HF AM equipment they were trying to sell was worthless to other HAM
operators, but was priceless to a CB operator with deep pockets; so guess who
the 'smart' hams sold all their old HF AM equipment, and their linears, to???
I blame the HAM community for creating this monster by not self-policing
themselves like they should have.
It was their little 'secret' source of cash for quite a few years, and so
many amateur operators were involved that it was like a bad habit that was
unofficially accepted and condoned but rarely, if ever, spoken of on the
air....
A license is an an agreement with the Government and Society that you will
abide the law and these activities violate those laws. If you do so,
giving up your license is the right thing to do.
You also agree to provide emergency radio services for this country in a
National Emergency; and I know of very few amateurs who could build a
transmitter or a receiver from scratch if they had to, especially if tubes
were
involved....
I can, and I have, done both.
Can you?
After the first high altitude explosion and it's associated EMP, the
'appliance HAM operators' will be totally out of service and sitting on their
hands
while those CB radio operators who have refused to give up their ancient
tube rigs will still be on the air!
I believe that there should be a licensing requirement for all HAM
operators to possess at least one piece of EMP-PROOF communications gear in
good
working condition, and that there would be at least one day a year, (a contest
maybe), where they would all have to put them on the air and make sure they
were still in good working condition and to validate their emergency
communication networks.
Regards,
Dennis O.
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