[Kenwood] Re: Personal Opinion on mikes

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:29:46 -0400

From the flavor of those citations, it looks like 14.322 is the 'nut-case'
frequency. I'll have to
start listening there...perhaps more laughs than 3898!!
...Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Adsit" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: [Kenwood] Re: Personal Opinion on mikes


> Please read ALL of this message before flying off the handle. We US hams
> are, in the FCC's rules, "self regulating". Later I make that point.
>
> Take a look at the following series of FCC citations re bandwidth:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/enforcement_logs/2003/0419.html
>
> Part 97 appears here:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/files/infoserv/rib/part97.txt
>
> The U.S. FCC rules have been watered down. Here is an on-topic sentence in
> the rules:
>
> Section 97.307(a) of the Commission's Rules requires that no amateur
> station transmission shall occupy more bandwidth that necessary for the
> information rate and emission type being transmitted, in accordance with
> good amateur practice.
>
> What "good amateur practice" is re phone operation, is loosely defined in
> the following FCC enforcement statement:
>
> "Section 97.101 applies to all amateur stations at all times. When an
> amateur station transmits a voice emission that occupies more bandwidth
> than necessary in order to achieve a "great audio" sound, that emission
> occupies spectrum that could be utilized by several other amateur
> stations. To occupy more bandwidth necessary in a heavily used amateur
> band is not only extremely inconsiderate, but is contrary to requirement
> that amateur operators cooperate in the utilization of frequencies
> allocated to them, and make the most effective use of them."
>
> Whatever floats your boat. This topic is a stand-off, IMO. I reckon you
> can do whatever you please, within reason, with your Heil mic or ANY mic
> when using AM and a really classy wideband transmitter, on, let us say,
> 75M phone. Just don't aggravate Riley Hollingsworth and Company if you are
> licensed by the FCC. The band is crowded as it is, mainly with SSB
> stations. Fortunately, the experimenters do not operate all over the band,
> debating who sounds better on AM. Nothing wrong with doing it as long as
> you don't splatter, and that rule applies to SSB as well. From what I can
> tell from the doublespeak in Part 97, to cite a sticky aspect of this, a
> strong signal outside the band edge, let us say right above 4 Mhz, seems
> to be considered with a 3KHz bandwidth phone signal in mind. Now, if you
> are operating an AM signal there with "great audio" and a rig that will
> pass that audio faithfully, some little elf tells me you /may/ hear from
> the FCC. Just a /guess/. But I also think it helps support my feelings, so
> I offer it for consideration only.
>
> I cannot "win" this discussion, nor do I wish to discourage hams from
> comparing audio quality of some great pieces of vintage ham gear. I tune
> in myself and find it all very interesting and reminiscent of the days
> when I started back in 1948. In today's operating environment, I just
> would have one heck of a time operating even SSB anywhere near that
> frequency. Since I don't need to, I don't try.
>
> Being penitent and suffering from Mic in Mouth Disease and being mainly a
> CW operator, I remain,
> Fred NY2V
>
>
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