[Elecraft] The Technician Ten Radio

[Fred Jensen]

On 2/7/2014 5:44 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:

> I do not like the idea of converting CB radios.

While the FCC [and I'm told other national communications regulatory 
agencies too] has steadily decreased their regulation of amateur radio 
transmitting equipment, there still ARE technical emission standards in 
the rules.  The several CB transceivers "converted" to 10 meters that 
I've seen did NOT meet those standards.

I doubt that a 10 meter transceiver aimed at Technican class licensees 
will catch on.  But then, when I first read in one of the IEEE 
Transactions of a telephone you carried around with you that 
communicated with low-power computerized stations that could pass your 
phone call from one to the other, I said to my cubemate, "That'll never 
catch on."

> To get a ham license
> without going through a CB phase you need to be as old as I am (73)
> or nearly so and license as a child (15 for me) to remember when 11
> meters was a ham band.  There are only a few of us codgers that
> qualify to remember the 11 meter ham band and way fewer who actually
> made a ham transmission there. (I did not!)

I did.  Pre CB, 11 meters was an ISM band [medical diathermy and the 
like] and as hams, we could do just about anything we wanted to so long 
as we confined our emissions to the band.  Several of my high school 
nerd friends and I experimented with full-duplex AM and CW ... we were 
close enough to each other that signals were strong enough to overcome 
the receiver desense.  For those not familiar, full duplex classed as A0 
emission which was prohibited elsewhere.

I too am 73, I was licensed as a 13 year old, and I resent being called 
a "codger."

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
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