On 11/7/2017 10:03 AM, Steve Wright wrote:
It's an even more serious mistake to overtly self-police when there
are no issues to fix.
I don't understand what you mean by "self-police."
FURNISH THE COMPLAINT.
Every time I tune my RX to the SSB part of any active band, I hear
splatter where the suppressed sideband should be, and beyond the cutoff
of the TX sideband filter on the active sideband. And I see the
distortion on a good spectrum display that I'm certain is not being
generated in the receiver. It is all too common for a SSB station to be
occupying 10 kHz of a band (and I'm not talking about stations TRYING to
transmit "hi-fi.)" And I typically observe this on many signals, not
just a few. It is not unusual for this splatter to be as strong as only
10-15 dB below the intentional signal. Casual ragchewers seem to be the
worst offenders, although some contesting lids are in that club.
Why does this matter? Because many of us want to work the weaker
stations on either side of that splattering rig. And because FCC Rules
require that our transmitted signal observe the minimum bandwidth
required for the means of transmission. And because using more than that
bandwidth is selfish is piggish. It's the equivalent of those obnoxious
teenage (and older) drivers with super loud audio systems driving down
the road with their windows open, cranked up so loud that you feel the
vibration of the bass.
In school, in WV, I learned that with rights come responsibilities. Our
licenses allow us to run high power to big antennas, but they also
require that our signals be clean.
73, Jim K9YC
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