[Elecraft] Regulations [END of thread]

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Let's end the thread on regulations (under this heading and the others (CQWW etc.) We're getting way OT.

73,
Eric
Elecraft List Manager 

AMFMTV at aol.com wrote:

>Ladies and Gentlemen of the Elecraft Reflector:
>Please be careful what  you wish for and/or petition for. 
>How great of a "service" the Amateur Radio  hobby would be 
>if we all had type approved radios, requiring a yearly  
>"checkout" at a licensed measurement office ($500 per radio, 
>per band,  per mode), channelized frequencies so we would 
>all be within <50Hz of a  designated center of channel, a 
>single mode of "approved" operation, radios  so simple no
>one would need to have any knowledge of how to operate
>the  thing, etc., etc.  Wow!  Thats like living in an HOA  
>dwelling!  And, the greatest thing of all....since no one
>would need  to know how to make his radio meet all spectral
>purity and emissions tests,  WE WOULDN'T NEED ANY LICENSES!
>Frequencies waiting to be used by  ANYONE!  CB everywhere (gasp).
>Please!  Be vewwy vewwy careful for  what you wish.
> 
>73
>Ted  W8IXY   K3 #1717  
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