[Boatanchors] [AMRadio] Fasten your seatbelts - here we go for another AR...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

The problem isn't interoperability (who'd want to talk to some idiot with a 
glorified cell phone) or interference.  It's getting the older equipment 
declared illegal to operate.  It came real close to being illegal to operate a 
BC-610 or T-368 when the FCC rewrote the power rules to favor SSB over AM a 
generation ago.  They did manage to outlaw several sets.  If they set up a 
band plan allowing only very narrow band equipment, the next step will be to 
try to outlaw anything that can't fit the band plan (which also affects 
people running 15 KC repeaters).  The League has already gone on record 
officially as trying to outlaw double-sideband AM.  I've been a League member for 
almost half a Century.  And throughout most of that period, you would have a 
hard time convincing me that their one and only interest wasn't supporting 
new equipment manufacturers.  The Hell with what the membership wanted so 
long as it put Yen into the senior official's pockets.  They've had an axe to 
grind.  And they've usually tested it on our heads.

In a message dated 9/23/2009 11:37:49 PM Central Daylight Time, 
manualman at juno.com writes: 
> Unless they're ("radio and MV") operating in the repeater subbands, I
> don't them having any problem. Of course, a real problem is, how do you
> convince all the current repeater owners to trash their existing
> equipment (especially if it's old stuff but still working well) and go
> buy a repeater(s) that operate less then 15 kHz .
> 
> Actually, going back to your original concern, if nothing is done, your
> "radio and MV" might be in more jeopardy from new narrowband pairs, since
> they can't fit into the existing repeater subband, they probably would
> tend to migrate to other parts of the band where you normally don't find
> this stuff.
> 
> Pete, wa2cwa
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:40 EDT WA5CAB at cs.com writes:
> OK.  But that just moves the problem the League would be causing to two
> other groups of collectors (radio and MV).  Collectible VHF military sets
> are all either AM or wide band FM.
> 
> 

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