Re: [TenTec] 425 titan

["Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>]

The intention was to allow legitimate manufacturers of amplifiers to 
have 28 MHz enabled "as shipped" rather than modified by an authorized 
user (licensed hams) as we've been doing over the past 30 years.

However, the FCC kind of fumbled the ball in the rewrite of the regs. 
The way it reads now, am amplifier may not have any amplification 
between 26 and 28 MHz to meet type acceptance as shipped.  There is no 
possible way your typical amplifier is going to put out full rated 
output at 28.005 MHz and no amplification at 27.995 short of having a 
microprocessor in there to keep the amp from operating on specific 
frequencies.  As our amps are non-microprocessor controlled manual-tuned 
tube amps, we've had to keep doing it the "old" way -- disabling the 
amplifier for 24-35 MHz use and then requesting proof of licensed 
authority (your ham license) to release the modification instructions.

73
Scott Robbins
W4PA


Ken Brown wrote:

> The ban on 10 meter capabilities in commercially available amplifiers 
> has been changed lately, has it not? What are the details now?
> 
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