Right on!
w6rd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:53 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Amplifier Regulations
>
>> Having owned the last three vintages of the Titan, the only difference
>> with the "425E" was 10 & 12 enabled from the factory.
>> They all had 10 meters silk screened on the front panel.
>> The 10 meter conversion was very simple to enable after
>> the top cover was removed to install the transformer.
> As with every other commercially built amplifier, the modification
> required to make it work on 10 meters ( which in almost every case will
> also make it work on 11 meters ) is "very simple". Yet FCC 97.315 (b)
> says, in part:
>>
>> (b) Certification shall be denied when:
>>
>> (2) The amplifier can be easily modified to operate on
>> frequencies between 26 MHz and 28 MHz.
>>
> I suppose that one could argue that "very simple" does not equal "easily".
>
> Seems like this is one of those rules, so poorly thought out and
> written, that it either can not or should not be enforced. No doubt it
> is enforced selectively like other rules that fall into that same
> category.
>
> DE N6KB
>
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