[Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The Code?

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Duanne,

There's no such thing as a +/-3 rule.  As Gary says, if your transmitter met 
standard specs of the time for unwanted sideband and carrier suppression, you 
could have been running on 14225 USB and been perfectly legal.  You should 
have just told them to go push a rope.  And if they persisted, turned them in for 
malicious interference.  

In a message dated 4/29/2008 7:42:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
garyschafer at comcast.net writes: 
> You should have immediately informed them that they should get new 
> receivers
> and learn how to use them. I have never heard of this +- 3 KHz stuff. If you
> were on upper side band most all of the transmit energy would be above the
> carrier frequency and little of any significance below it. Of course it may
> seem like you have energy below your carrier frequency when tuning down in
> the upper side band position but the pass band is actually offset 3 KHz
> higher in frequency. Little did they know.
> 
> A group of us used to operate on 3999 lower side band regularly many years
> ago. Sometimes even on 4000 lower side band.
> 
> 73
> Gary  K4FMX
> 
> >Once when I had a General class license I made the accidental mistake of
> >making a call on 14.227 MHZ usb. Wow! Three Hams immediately appeared out
> >of
> >the ethers to inform me that I was operating illegally. Did I get my
> >license
> >out of a box of corn flakes or what? I was in violation of the +/-3
> >factor,
> >since I could not transmit below 14.225 being only a General, and since I
> >was transmitting on 14.227, and since 14.227 minus 14.225 = 2, etc.
> >
> >They were correct. I was in violation of a rule. These three Hams, all
> >with
> >Extra class tickets, had a routine of sitting there on or about 14.227
> >just
> >waiting for someone like I to make such a mistake. Then they ran our call
> >sign through the on-line version of QRZ.COM, checked out license class and
> >got right down to their joy in life of polishing their egos and insulting
> >others! I am sure most of you have run into some Hams just like these
> >three.
> >Maybe we should take up a collection, have some "Get A Life!" boxer shorts
> >printed up and mail them a gift!
> >
> >Duane W8DBF
> 

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