[Elecraft] 2-30 MHz Transmit? MARS

Tue Apr 7 20:32:29 EDT 2015

Elecraft sells ham radios. If you have a MARS license Elecraft will provide you will instructions to enable that on your K3 or KX3. There have been no reports from someone with a legitimate MARS license being denied that support from elecraft. All it takes is an email or call to tech support.  Give it a rest.

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> On Apr 7, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Denis Dimick <dgdimick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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).
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>>> ...Military Amateur Radio System...
>>> ...Military Affiliate Radio System...
>>> ...Military Auxiliary Radio System...
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> The manufacturer should not presume to become enforcer of regulations.
>> 
>> Mike / KK5F
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