[AMRadio] AM Power

Thu Jun 23 06:46:52 EDT 2011

A few last comments from me on this as it really should be stopped. 
Perhaps the  issue of laws broken etc will all come to an end when the 
"religion of peace" and the religious police are in charge of the country. 
The freedoms that we have have only  come into existance because of the 
willingness of brave souls to break the existing laws in place at an earlier 
time.   So to me it does seem strange to assume that all current laws need 
to be followed without question.     Regarding speed, speeding. I recall 
when the Ohio limit on freeways was 70 MPH also when it was 55 MPH. Now it 
is 65 MPH and most drive at around 75 to 80 MPH. The design of Ohio freeways 
was based on 85 MPH and that was with 1950 and 60 vehicles.     It is really 
a shame that the Germans are so much more intelligent and skilled than Ohio 
drivers.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Power

>>>  B.S. is exactly what it is and I'll be
>>> damned
>>> if I'll go one step out of my way to "give aid and comfort to the > > >
>> enemy" regarding this matter.
>>
>> Sounds like a revolution.
>> Don't forget it is "they" that grant us the privilege of operating on the
>> bands at all.
>>
>> It is over. It is done. Why not live with it and help others learn what
>> they
>> can about "how it really is"? By continuing to deny the new rules it is
>> like
>> still fighting the civil war. All it does is confuse a lot of people. 
>> Tell
>> the history and move on.
>>
>> 73
>> Gary  K4FMX
>
> "They" would have said exactly the same thing about Geo Washington and Ben
> Franklin and the rest of those guys. Remember them?
>
> The FCC has pretty much shown they don't give a rat's arse about what goes
> on inside the ham bands as long as it is confined to the amateur 
> frequencies
> and doesn't cause interfere to other radio services.  Just look at the
> situation with our friend up in Belgrade Lakes, ME and how long it has 
> taken
> to set any action in motion dealing with him, and he is still on the air.
> And look at the unwillingness to enforce Part 15 rules against the garbage
> spewed out by cheap  consumer electronics junk, and the wilful deception
> (recently proved in federal court) regarding BPL.
>
> The power limit operates strictly on the "honor system", unless one
> transmits with tens of kilowatts causing widespread complaints of
> interference throughout the neighbourhood.  When was the last time you 
> heard
> of any ham being  cited for running too much P.E.P. since that jackass 
> rule
> was enacted over 20 years ago? Whereas there was no "honour" involved in 
> the
> PRB's handling of that proceeding, I wouldn't consider a  ham  who merely
> chose to continue running his old legal KW plate modulated rig just as he
> always had, lacking in integrity in any way. Fortunately, the butt-hole 
> who
> railroaded through the P.E.P.-BS  has since retired and is no longer with
> the FCC.  I  doubt the issue would be very high on the priorities list of
> present-day personnel.
>
> As far as "confusing a lot of people", the more confusion, the better. Let
> them be confused if they aren't capable of taking a copy of the Handbook,
> studying the contents, and coming to their own conclusions.  I will not be 
> a
> party to "educating" members of the amateur community to the politically
> correct line. Maybe Johnny Johnston would be willing to come out of
> retirement and personally give a seminar on the topic.
>
> Granted, if the SSB crowd observed good engineering practice with their
> transmitters, the PEP-B.S. would hurt them just as much as it does AM, if
> not more.  Under the old rules, one could talk up SSB power to the maximum
> legal input, and let the undistorted peaks go where they may. By 
> maintaining
> plenty of headroom in the amplifier, a fair amount of average power could 
> be
> generated with natural  peak levels, without flat-topping and splattering.
> But many, if not most, SSB ops fail observe good engineering practice,
> primarily out of ignorance, since most don't even know what P.E.P. is, 
> other
> than that's what the meter reads in "peak" position. Many or most just 
> drive
> their amplifiers until the meters kick up to "what the book says" and 
> their
> Hammy Hambone wattmeter indicates maximum "legal" power, oblivious to
> flat-topping of the peaks or spurious distortion products generated. 
> Driving
> a "leen-yar" to the flat-topping region and generating an unnecessarily
> broad signal (or flat-topping the prohibitive peaks of an AM signal for 
> that
> matter) is a far more serious offence, than allowing a few occasional 
> voice
> peaks to exceed the magical limit, something unlikely to audibly affect 
> the
> loudness or the interference-generating capability of the signal.
>
> None of this would affect low level modulation (grid or AM linear) 
> whatever,
> since a KW DC input to a properly adjusted AM linear or grid modulated
> amplifier would never generate more than about 300 watts of 100% modulated
> carrier in any case.
>
>
> Don k4kyv
>
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