[Elecraft] Bass in audio is good

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

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

Not true ... nobody has been able to make a proposal without being 
shouted down by a bunch of AM and ESSB zealots.  Most HF users 
want AM and ESSB (occupied bandwidth greater than required for 
communications quality - 2.6 to 2.8 KHz) banned.  Unfortunately, 
certain special interest groups continue to drive the debate. 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of n2ey at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:32 AM
> To: nn4x.steve at gmail.com; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bass in audio is good
> 
> 
> -----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
> 
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