[Amps] New FCC Amplifier Rule

[Tom W8JI]

> Hal's question:  "Why in the Hell was 11 meters ever 
> taken?"

The 11 meter band was used for commercial 2-way and radio 
control also, but the "I can do anything I want" CB 
mentality ruined that also.

The FCC's original intention was good. CB was intended to be 
a cheap simple replacement for farmers, service, and others 
requiring necessary personal or business communications to 
have access to a cheap and easy to license service. When CB 
started the only exception to this were people who used CB 
as a hobby by building legal CB transceivers.

In the neighborhood where I grew up there were two CB'ers 
who both built their own legal 5 watt transceivers and used 
callsigns, and three amateur operators. It wasn't until the 
70's that CB fell apart and became a gathering place for the 
"I can do anything I want" crowd. The FCC's real error was 
in assuming people would follow rules. They were used to 
that happening and it was a surprise they couldn't deal with 
when the morons surfaced in mass.

73 Tom