[Johnson] 12 meters with the Ranger

[Kevin J Ward]

Ooops!  As Glen (and a few others) have patiently pointed out, I goofed. 
I would have responded sooner but it took me a couple days to get my foot
out of my mouth.  It was in pretty deep!

I took the time to run the whole thing back through the "confuser" as we
say, to figure out where I got the idea about AM on the WARC bands in the
first place.  I finally came to the conclusion that it stems from the
process that created those bands.  Some of the NPRM responders had
suggested that the WARC bands, small as they are, not be subjected to
contest operation or bandwidth extravagant emission types.  The
suggestion that made sense to me then (and now) was to allow only CW,
other data modes, and SSB.  I reasoned that a narrow band should be
limited to narrow bandwidth signals.  But that isn't how things turned
out.

Oh, someone responded that the only band on which AM operation is not
allowed is 60-meters.  That's not strictly true.  Only one or two
countries permit phone operation of any kind on 30-meters.  No, I don't
remember which countries.  The US is not one of them.  

Kevin  N2IE

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