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[Amps] New FCC Amplifier Rule

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Subject: [Amps] New FCC Amplifier Rule
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:09:21 -0400
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The FCC Omnibus R&O released yesterday requires:

§ 2.815  External radio frequency power amplifiers.
...
(1)  The external radio frequency power amplifier shall not be capable of 
amplification in the frequency band 26-28 MHz.  

(2)  The amplifier shall not be capable of easy modification to permit its use 
as an amplifier in the frequency band 26-28 MHz.

This is intended as a less-onerous replacement for the old rule, but it strikes 
me as not well thought out.  How could you inexpensively disable an amplifier 
between 26 and 28 MHz while permitting full gain on 28.001 MHz, particularly if 
the limitation had to be hard to disable? I guess it would be easy enough in 
highly-automated amplifiers through firmware, but would it effectively doom 
simple manual amps? 


73, Pete N4ZR
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