[Boatanchors] ARRL petition

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Going along with what Peter said so beautifully:

Unless the station operator knows how to properly configure and use the 
transmitter and accessories, the SSB and AM signal will still smell like the 
southern end of a northbound Mule! I have listened to guys using thousands 
of dollars of high tech audio enhancement devices, (some sound studio or 
radio station studio grade), with super expensive boom microphones and 
assemblies and sounding horrible. Trying to make SSB sound like a 
professionally run AM commercial station and splattering 10 KHZ either side 
of their operating frequency. All seem to run Harris amps too! (Big 
bucks=big ego, and all too often, bad audio!) I have heard guys sound 
absolutely fantastic running very modest equipment on a shoestring budget 
with a clean signal. Good gear can be bought by anyone with the cash to 
spend, but good operating practices must be learned from those who know. 
Learn while you can guys, as we are losing the tried and true Hams as most 
are now pushing eighty+. What they can teach us, much of is not in books.

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] ARRL petition


> Under the ARRL petition, all phone is 3.5 KHz max except for AM, which is
> set at 9 KHz max. If you can't sound "good" at 9 KHz, then, most likely,
> no amount of increase in bandwidth for AM will make you sound "good".
> Pete
>
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:52:48 EST RKofler at aol.com writes:
>> As I understand it, the ARRL Bandwidth Petition contains an exception
>> for AM
>> operation.
>>
>> Roger
>> K7DDG
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