[Elecraft] USB on all bands ??

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

True, Brian. 

A few years ago a buddy and I were chatting on the air with our K2s
comparing the performance of the filters. As part of our testing we made
sure we had no adjacent frequency signals and then switched sidebands back
and forth to see how the rigs sounded. 

A guy broke into our QSO berating us for transmitting on an "illegal"
sideband for that band. 

I think Ian may have touched on the source of his misunderstanding about the
IARU adopting the current sequence of sidebands used. I don't know if other
countries have rules about that, but the USA does not. 

But the breaker on our frequency wasn't hearing that. He KNEW we were the
scum of the bands for our continued illegal act ivies and was quick to point
that out! His position was that if what we were doing was not illegal yet,
it should be.

My concern here is that as the Ham bands become more and more populated with
non-technical "operators", no matter how skilled at operating they might be,
many will tend to want to legislate more and more uniformity in Ham
operations. That can quickly get in the way of free-ranging experimentation,
simply playing with old or unusual  modes of communications or doing
anything they don't agree supports their personal goals.  

We need room for both as we always have: those for whom their goal in the
hobby is to be the best possible "operator", based on their DX, contest
scores or their participation in public service activities, and those for
whom the hobby is a venue for experimentation and tinkering with equipment.

We Amateur Radio Operators have contributed greatly in both arenas over the
years. I hope we will continue to do so. But it requires the freedom for
some Hams to do something many others think is absurd, obviously useless and
wasteful of spectrum space while the experimenters take care not to abuse
their privileges within the rules. 

Of course there will always be those who believe the others should be shut
down. 

It's up to the rest of us to keep both camps relaxed and tolerant as much as
we can. 

Ron AC7AC



-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian Lloyd
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:48 PM
To: w6jd at comcast.net
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB on all bands ??


You know, there is nothing, legally or technically, preventing anyone  
from running USB on the bands below 10MHz if that is what they really  
want to do. I am sure it will annoy someone tho'. I remember when I  
was accused of trying to ruin packet radio by running that nasty TCP/ 
IP stuff over the air too. :-)

--

73 de Brian, WB6RQN
Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com



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