[TenTec] ARRL "regulation by bandwidth" NOW ON TOPIC!

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

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From: <K4IA at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 13:07
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ARRL "regulation by bandwidth" NOW ON TOPIC!


>
> I can get this on topic!  Follow me...
>
> In a message dated 4/15/2005 1:00:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> k3tx at fast.net writes:
>
> >>>>>>ARRL was not the instigator
> of incentive  licensing.  It was FCC;  ARRL did what could be done to
> make what  FCC  was going to do anyway as acceptable as possible to  the
> masses. <<<<<<<
>
>
> That is not how I recall it.  ARRL got its butt burned when the FCC  took
> away 11 meters.  CB turned out to be incredibly popular and ARRL  wanted
to do
> something to distinguish us from the unwashed masses of CB  operators. I
> remember that argument being a prime reason for the incentive  licensing.
Incentive
> licensing was a fiasco as many predicted  and cost ham radio and the ARRL
> dearly.  Many remain embittered to this  day.
>
> Now for the on topic part:
>
> The good news is that software upgradeable radios ala TT will be able to
> adjust to changes.  It would be nice if there was a feature that
guaranteed  you
> wouldn't be wider than x hz no matter how badly you adjusted things.

iNTERESTING.  woNDER HOW WELL IT WOULD WORK.  iF i WERE A NUT WHO LIKED TO
PROduce rotten sigs and my rig was fixed so I couldn't,  I would just switch
models/brands <GR>.   Got to convince some off shore and USA GOB'ss to shape
up.


> Okay, I
> know it shouldn't be necessary, but in spite of continued reminders,  most
> PSK signals are too wide and we hear splatter all over the SSB  bands.
The FT
> 1000x's key clicks should have made that radio "type  unacceptable" if the
FCC
> had been paying attention when it went through the  approval process.
Yaesu
> should be ashamed.  Unfortunately, all those  "shoulds" do not make it
"so."
>
> How feasible is it to design the software so the radio can not be
overdriven
> or overdrive?  TT contributed to the problem and not the  solution when it
> failed to put an ALC output on the Orion.  It  shouldn't cost more than 50
cents
> for a wire and jack but they left it  out.  Does anyone have a mod to add
an
> ALC jack to the Orion?
>
> k4ia
> Craig  "Buck"
> Fredericksburg, Virginia USA
>
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