[Amps] Alpha 87 (not 87A)

[Jim Brown]

On 11/7/2017 10:03 AM, Steve Wright wrote:
> It's an even more serious mistake to overtly self-police when there 
> are no issues to fix.

I don't understand what you mean by "self-police."

> FURNISH THE COMPLAINT.

Every time I tune my RX to the SSB part of any active band, I hear 
splatter where the suppressed sideband should be, and beyond the cutoff 
of the TX sideband filter on the active sideband. And I see the 
distortion on a good spectrum display that I'm certain is not being 
generated in the receiver. It is all too common for a SSB station to be 
occupying 10 kHz of a band (and I'm not talking about stations TRYING to 
transmit "hi-fi.)" And I typically observe this on many signals, not 
just a few. It is not unusual for this splatter to be as strong as only 
10-15 dB below the intentional signal. Casual ragchewers seem to be the 
worst offenders, although some contesting lids are in that club.

Why does this matter?  Because many of us want to work the weaker 
stations on either side of that splattering rig. And because FCC Rules 
require that our transmitted signal observe the minimum bandwidth 
required for the means of transmission. And because using more than that 
bandwidth is selfish is piggish. It's the equivalent of those obnoxious 
teenage (and older) drivers with super loud audio systems driving down 
the road with their windows open, cranked up so loud that you feel the 
vibration of the bass.

In school, in WV, I learned that with rights come responsibilities. Our 
licenses allow us to run high power to big antennas, but they also 
require that our signals be clean.

73, Jim K9YC