[CW] CW speed

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

A pink slip, or a "FCC Notice of Apparant Violation", is definately a 
complaint, it has to be answered, and the problem fixed with a certain 
amount of days, or actions taken so that the violation will not happen 
again.

When FCC monitoring budget was higher, most of us would get these "Pink QSL 
cards", sometimes even from foreign PTT monitoring stations - especially 
from ships.

I was running an Allied Knight-Kit T-150A which was a pair of 6146s in the 
output on 80 meters during a Massachusetts QSO party during the 1970s, and 
got a "Pink Ticket" from upstate New York for a spurr on 10,000 MHz - to 
which I responded, I'd be more careful with my tuning of the transmitter. 
Later on I got one from another FCC monitoring station, and I really 
investigated!  I found that the pi-output coil of the 6146s was too short to 
resonate below 3600 kHz.  !!!  Imagine they put out a transmitter with a 
"too short" coil.  I bought some B&W coil stock and tapped the coil for 40, 
20, 15, 10 and 6 meters and then with a grid dip meter, found a place where 
it would resonate 3500-4000 with room on the plate capacitor to spare 
(i.o.w. not down at either end of the rotation of the capacitor.)

I haven't gotten a pink ticket recently!

73

David N1EA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Danner" <markd at mfwi.org>
To: "K0HB" <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>; <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>; 
<cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: [CW] CW speed


Any idea if it was via a complaint or if it was just noticed by the
"right" person?  Of course, the regs to specify 20 as the speed limit of
automatic id's  97.119(b)(1)

BTW, are the "speeding tickets" of the "courtesy nature" or are they
really menacing?  I do support the rules, but I've got to think that
with all the other abuse going on, enforcement might be picking the
wrong battles (but cheaper, I'm sure).

Just my .02 worth.  :-0

73,
Mark, AB7MP

-----Original Message-----
From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of K0HB
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:06 PM
To: bcarling at cfl.rr.com; cw at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [CW] CW speed


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>

>
> He he - sounds incredible. Can you tell us a bit about that
> experience?
>

146.16/76 repeater, of which I was trustee, got an auto-ID speeding
ticket
for exceeding the 20WPM limit by 4WPM.

73, de Hans, K0HB/W7





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