[Amps] Time for New Power Meter

Tom Osborne w7why at frontier.com
Mon May 4 16:56:55 EDT 2015


Hi Bill

Unfortunately, you can run any power you want and say anything you want 
on the air now and the FCC doesn't give a big rats a**.

If you think that is not a true statement, listen to 3840 any evening.  
There are more F-bombs dropped there than when I worked in the woods.  73
Tom W7WHY


> REPLY:
>
> When I was a new ham back in the late 1950's, the FCC issued a number
> of citations for excess power and the details were printed in QST.  As
> I recall, some of the citations were for very small transgressions of
> the 1kW limit, some as small as ten to twenty watts or so. It made
> enough of an impression that I remember it still.
>
> For what it's worth.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT



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