[CQ-Contest] Hams petition to outlaw "Hi-Fi" SSB

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=38400

     An excerpt:

     "...One of the two hams who submitted the petition told the FCC they are 
motivated by interference problems caused by two groups of single sideband  
operators. These groups are portrayed by the petitioners as, in both cases, 
having cast aside traditional voluntary limits on bandwidth of roughly three 
kilohertz. The petition therefore asks that these voluntary limits be made 
mandatory to provide a clear enforcement mechanism for regulators.

     "The petitioners, Michael Lonneke WXYR of Virginia, and Melvin Ladisky 
W6FDR of California, said hams from one of the groups come on during radio 
contests, and are  found tweaking their transmitters to splatter purposely to 
provide elbowroom on a very crowded band. The two men characterize the other 
group as those who experiment with high-fidelity audio, apparently trying to 
replicate the sound of FM Broadcast stations...."

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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences          Central Texas DX & Contest Club
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Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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