[Amps] FCC Denies Expert Linears' Request for Waiver of 15 dB Rule

[qrv at kd4e.com]

> Re your "The FCC needs to catch up with noise floor challenges & modern
> technology."
>
> Be careful what you wish for here because if the FCC were to address these
> challenges and mandate rules for minimum Tx performance specs then most
> solid-state rigs and amplifiers would be proscribed due to their lousy /
> mediocre IMD performance :-(

I'm referring to the reality that their failure to regulate commercial
junk has made it necessary to use higher power to overcome the RFI.

> It's probably best to leave the sacrosanct ham bands as a free-for-all
> anything goes as long as you keep your spectral muck confined within the
> designated ham bands... :-)

I have no desire to see the Ham bands become any more CB-lite than they
aready are ...

> 73
>
> Leigh
> VK5KLT