[Elecraft] Bass in audio is good

[n2ey at aol.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: S Sacco <nn4x.steve at gmail.com>

>We're not broadcasters, we're communicators.

That's true. But there are all sorts of communication!

>That extra frequency response takes away from the spectrum available
>for our fellow Amateurs.

Hold that thought....

>Don't even get me started on that "ESSB" stuff...and why is AM even
>LEGAL anymore, anyway?

It's legal for two reasons:

1) A considerable number of hams like it and use it.

2) No one has come up with a proposal to ban it that hasn't generated 
overwhelming opposition from the amateur community.

"Ban AM" (particularly from the HF amateur bands) proposals have popped 
up from time to time since before I became a ham 40 years ago. Always 
the same basic reason: AM is too wide.

Now about "tak[ing] away from the spectrum available for our fellow 
Amateurs" - if using the minimum amount of spectrum is the issue, why 
are any modes wider than a few hundred Hz allowed? Ten CW or PSK31 QSOs 
can fit in the space of one SSB QSO, so why is SSB still allowed?

73 de Jim, N2EY