[Amps] New Elecraft Amps

[Will Matney]

Joe,

I didn't say that our president was keeping hams off 10 meters. What I meant was that they have them to go after the big corporations because of the money involved over the fines. That money goes in their cookie jar. Plus, they're hipocritical if you ask me. They allow a bunch of words on there now that was never allowed when I was a youngster. If your going to ban words like that, you should ban them all, not a few here and allow others just as bad. It suprises me today the words they allow people to say on prime time TV when kids are watching. When I was young, we never heard those on TV, nowhere. I'll also bet that if they didn't have the certain groups complain about some of the shows, they wouldn't touch them, unless they could see leveling fines against a huge number of stations at once over the income from them. With hams, look what they do. Your loosing bandwidth all the time, and they're wanting BPL which hams will surely get the bad end of the deal on. I think they have their hands in too many other things they think of as important, and have put the amateur community on the back burner.

Getting back to the point here, they should act if they said they were going to repeal those rules. The old rules before made running a 10 meter amp on 11 meters illegal anyhow. Like another said, all it did was make a bunch of independant test labs rich. I would love to get into offering kits, but my hands are tied over that law. Right now, they allow CCI to offer solid state kits but wont allow somebody else to do it? Something sure is not right there if you ask me. They either allow it or don't, and not pick favorites in who they allow to do it.

Best,

Will


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>On 4/26/06 at 5:22 PM Joe Isabella wrote:
>Yeah, I'm sure President Bush sat in the Oval Office thinking "Gee, I
>wonder who I can put in the FCC so the Hams have to keep their amps off
>12-10m"...  Come on Will, give me a break.  That rule has been on the
>books since the 70s.  He's no more responsible for that than high gas
>prices.  The tree-huggers protesting the refineries we need are
>responsible for $3.00+ per gallon gasoline.  That and India & China's huge
>demand from the Middle East.  Bet you don't hear *THAT* from the biased
>press.  BTW, I'd be glad not to have to see or hear all that trash on
>broadcast radio & television.  You want to see it, pay for it on
>cable/satellite.  Now if we could just quit paying all these moronic music
>"artists" and athletes ludicrous salaries and give some of that to our
>teachers, police, and firemen who truly deserve it, we'd be in much better
>shape...
>
>I'm more worried about his cavalier attitude on BPL.  Shouldn't BPL
>interference to Amateur Radio be at least a bullet point someplace in the
>report on the "Federal Government's response to Katrina"??
>
>Sorry -- I'm just tired of all the blame going to one guy in an office for
>everything that's been wrong with this country for decades.  At least I
>kept if off the reflector.  And sorry for unloading on you.  Maybe I
>should write a book and make a million dollars. 
>
>;-)
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>Joe
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>Will Matney <craxd1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>Peter,
>
>They never did do that as far as I know as I've been waiting myself.
>That's the very reason you can't sell kits now. They do require testing
>for harmonics to be under so many db's to reduce interference, so I don't
>know if type accepting will ever go away. The strange thing is they want
>this test, but allow any ham to build one amp per year, and some don't
>have the means to do this test! To be very honest about it, I think this
>administration has a lot to do with it by who they pick to run the FCC.
>They're more concerned about someone saying a dirty word on TV than the
>needs of the amateur community. Too many hands in there from the "moral
>majority".
>
>Best,
>
>Will
>
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>On 4/26/06 at 4:56 PM Peter Chadwick wrote:
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>>What happened to the proposal from FCC to drop the requirement for making
>>sure amplifiers didn't cover 11 metres? Once that went, what is the point
>>of having Type Approval for amateur stuff other than making profits for
>>test houses?
>>At least in Europe, a manufacturer can self certify now.
>>
>>73
>>Peter G3RZP
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