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

[Carl]

Making a sillyass rule and enforcing it are two different things. Riley 
never bothered the guys with 1KW BCB rigs, Desk KW's, KW-1's, etc and the 
current administration doesnt seem to care what goes on. I run several KW + 
AM amps just the way they were designed pre 1960 and I'll be damned if that 
will change. Run a clean signal no more than around 7 kHz wide, and dont get 
into long motormouth or controversial transmissions and you wont be 
bothered.

I recently picked up an about to be trashed industrial 49 mHz amp and driver 
with a pair of 4-400's that will make for a nice plate modulated KW input on 
6M. All it needed was new filter caps and 6146 and its good for 700W out.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
To: <manualman at juno.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [AMRadio] Fasten your seatbelts - here we go 
foranother AR...


> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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