>In message <19970722032009.AAA7862@[205.231.11.81]> Rich Measures writes:
>
>> The legal limit on splatter inside a ham band is essentially that the
>> splatter can not extend outside the ham band.
>
>That is NOT the essence of the law on this point. This is the law:
>
Part 97 is not the law of the land. Part 97 is a set of arbitrary rules
that were established by the FCC. IMO, the amateur radio rules were
written vaguely to make enforcement as easy as possible for the FCC. In
the eyes of the FCC, CB and amateur radio are of equal importance.
>S 97.307 Emission standards.
> (a) No amateur station transmission shall occupy more bandwidth than
>necessary for the information rate and emission type being transmitted, in
>accordance with good amateur practice.
>
For a number of lock-to-talk AMers on 75m, good amateur practice is a
bandwidth of 25KHz or so and station identification breaks every ten
minutes during a broadcast.
- The bottom-line is that "good" is when the splatter is confined to the
amateur band being used. Not "good" is when the splatter extends beyone
the amateur band being used.
Rich---
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K
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