[Elecraft] 2-30 MHz Transmit? MARS

[Denis Dimick]

If you can't hack it you don't really own it, your just renting it.
On 7 Apr 2015 15:32, "Harry Yingst via Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> I used to be a Mars Operator many years ago while in the Navy. (I was a
> shipboard MARS operator).
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> I do agree that it should be a Menu item, Having to get approval from the
> manufacturer for a piece of equipment that I Own does not sit well with me.
> (and is the reason I refuse to do business with another well know radio
> vendor, over this very point).
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>       From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
>  To:
> Cc: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 2:48 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 2-30 MHz Transmit? MARS
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> > ...Military Amateur Radio System...
> > ...Military Affiliate Radio System...
> > ...Military Auxiliary Radio System...
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> MARS has stood for *all three* of the above proposed phrases since its
> creation after WWII for the Army and (later) Air Force as a formal
> organization of military and amateur stations operating on military
> frequencies to handle written and phone patch traffic for military
> servicemen.  Because an amateur license was used only as an individual's
> technical qualification for membership while MARS conducted none of its
> business on amateur frequencies, AMATEUR was changed to AFFILIATE shortly
> thereafter.  The Navy/Marine Corps finally created its own MARS in the
> early 1960s.  Throughout the first 25 years of MARS's existence the primary
> task was to serve the serviceman as one of the limited means he had to
> communicate rapidly with his family.  That mission was last carried out to
> any great extent during the Vietnam war.  MARS has had to create an
> Emergency Communications mission to justify its existence since.  About a
> decade ago, for reasons best understood by builders of bureaucr
>  acies, AFFILIATE was changed to AUXILIARY.  MARS HF gear as yet does not
> need to meet NTIA specs.
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> Once "CAP" was often cited along with MARS...the Civil Air Patrol operates
> HF/VHF nets similar to MARS, on Air Force frequencies.  But about a decade
> ago CAP required communications equipment to meet NTIA specs...something no
> ham gear is going to meet.
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> With respect to the issue of a manufacturer artficially limiting the
> transmit frequency coverage of its equipment to ham bands only, I find such
> an attitude paternalistic and condescending.  It plainly conveys the
> attitude that the customer is too stupid to avoid improper or illegal
> operation of the equipment.  There should be a menu item that allows either
> full or ham-band-only coverage.  That is all.  I have over several decades
> found full band transmit coverage to be routinely useful for test signal
> generation in addition to MARS work.
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> The manufacturer should not presume to become enforcer of regulations.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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