[Elecraft] K3 - ESSB Availability

Bill Tippett btippett at alum.mit.edu
Thu May 29 10:24:53 EDT 2008


	Every time I see the term ESSB I see red.  I wonder if these folks 
have ever read FCC Part 97.307 (a) Emission Standards:

(a) No amateur station transmission shall occupy more bandwidth than 
necessary for the information rate and emission type being 
transmitted, in accordance with good amateur practice.

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/

Instead of playing wannabe broadcast engineer, why don't these folks 
try something really creative, like trying to see how *little* 
bandwidth they can use to communicate, instead of how much bandwidth 
they can consume?

	Icom has a lot of faults (like very misleading advertising) but I do 
commend them for limiting the bandwidth of their voice modes.
End of rant.

				73,  Bill  W4ZV




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