[Elecraft] Gurus

[Julia Tuttle]

Nobody was blaming the operator. Gwen was asking whose *radio* was to blame.

And "hey, your radio seems to be putting out some pretty strong
interference on the harmonics, can you fix that?" isn't a personal attack.
The answer might be "no, I have no idea how or why it is", though.

But, regardless of how "dirty" a radio is or isn't, it's reasonable to ask
someone to turn the power down when they don't need it -- it can overload
receivers, it can amplify any noise the radio is putting out, and it takes
up that spectrum in a wider geographic area than is needed.

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 20:14 Richards <jrichards at k8jhr.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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