[Elecraft] Gurus

[Richards]

Anyone condemning other hams for using "dirty transmitters"  is simply 
out of line.

The ordinary ham is NOT an Electrical Engineer and he buys his rig in 
good faith, believing it passed FCC and other engineering standards.   
He uses it in good faith, assuming it is OK and not causing problems.   
But then, a few self-appointed Frequency Cops condemn the poor operator 
as a bad citizen for using a "dirty transmitter"  as if the operator is 
somehow to blame.   I have worked a lot of contests with crowded 
conditions in a large metropolitan area, and nobody has ever whined 
about any of this, notwithstanding a couple of self-appointed experts 
living in the mountains of CA and CO claim it is a horrible epidemic.   
Besides, if this was such big problem why is it such a new, current 
topic? Supposedly, all those old rigs have been noisy all the time.   I 
suspect it is topical only because they have nothing else to talk about.

Well, even if it is a problem, there is no place for this sort of 
personal attack in ham radio, AND IT IS SIMPLY WRONG TO BLAME THE 
OPERATOR for how his rig works.   For most ops, ham radio is just a 
hobby and they are entitled to expect their radios will work right. 
Blaming the operator is simply out of line.   K8JHR