[Amps] AL1200 on AM - max carrier?
Glen Zook via Amps
amps at contesting.com
Fri Oct 31 11:22:57 EDT 2014
The necessary power level required to carry out the desired communications is, again, dependent on just what "desired" means! As such, the regulation has no meaning in technical terms.
Until "desired" has a quantitative value, there is no minimum, or maximum (up to the full legal limit), that defines necessary. Of course, this is semantics. However, when dealing with legal requirements, every term has to have a definite meaning.
The definition of "desire", in the New Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (the "big" dictionary that used to sit on a table, by itself, in the library), that is applicable to this is:
2. to express a wish to obtain.
Since such is on an individual basis, there is no quantitative value that can be applied. Glen, K9STH
Website: http://k9sth.net
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 5:23 PM, Paul Christensen <w9ac at arrl.net> wrote:
> "The word in the regs is "necessary ", not "desired". Bob"
Both terms are used in Part 97:
§97.313 Transmitter power standards.
(a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to
carry out the desired communications.
Paul, W9AC
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Logan via Amps
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:13 PM
To: Glen Zook
Cc: Amps at contesting.com ; Kimberly Elmore
Subject: Re: [Amps] AL1200 on AM - max carrier?
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:
The problem is that "desired communications" is not defined!
If the operator desires to have a 40 dB over S-9 (with S-9 defined as a 50
microvolt signal level) at every location, then that operator can run more
power, and still obey the rules, than an operator who just desires that
their signal can barely be detected above the noise level.
Glen, K9STH
Website: http://k9sth.net
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