[AMRadio] AMRadio Digest, Vol 92, Issue 10

[Rob Atkinson]

There's also the fact that the ham may have just upgraded and it
hasn't shown up yet in the callsign databases that are on line.

>the reason given was they felt that techs using converted cb rigs would not be technically competent to modify >rigs .

That's the nervous nellies at the ARRL wringing their hands over some
checkbook ham maybe putting out a "spectrally impure" signal.   Hello
League, it's _Amateur_ radio.  There is a learning curve.   You only
progress if you screw up and get past it.  This is part of the slide
towards potted boxes (no user servicable components inside),
communicator "hams," and a FCC rule prohibiting any modification.
Next will be a ban on BA rigs and homebrewing.

Meanwhile there are any number of slopbucket plastic radios driving
the new cheap solid state amps to new heights of grunge and I see
nothing in the way of a warning about them from the League.  And a lot
of those operators (usually Generals on up) get hostile if you tell
them they are not putting out a clean signal.

Rob
K5UJ