[PPRAANet] [ppdxg] [MHDXA] This was the last straw!
Phillip Blanton
phillip at n0tan.com
Sun Apr 3 20:34:31 EDT 2011
I hate April 1. I was really taken by Gmail Motion.
http://phillipblanton.com/post/2011/04/03/Dang!-I-Wanted-GMail-Motion-to-be
-Real.aspx
But then I realized it was an April Fool's day joke. Mad am I.
--
Phillip H. Blanton (NøTAN)
On 4/3/11 10:13 AM, "Robb Urie" <rurie at mywdo.com> wrote:
>All,
>
>Everyone needs to check the date of the original post....
>
>Robb NØRU
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Skinner
>Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 9:09 AM
>To: bill croghan ; Steve **KT0DX**
>Cc: Pikes Peak DX Group ; PPRAA Reflector ; Mile High DX Assn ; Grand
>Mesa
>Contest Club
>Subject: Re: [ppdxg] [PPRAANet] [MHDXA] This was the last straw!
>
>Well said WB0KSW.
>
>Kudo's to the OOs.
>
>Frank
>K0JQZ
>Fountain CO
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: bill croghan <billcroghan at earthlink.net>
>To: Steve **KT0DX** <kt0dx at comcast.net>
>Cc: Pikes Peak DX Group <ppdxg at mailman.qth.net>; Mile High DX Assn
><mhdxa at mhdxa.com>; PPRAA Reflector <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>; Grand Mesa
>Contest Club <gmc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Fri, April 1, 2011 8:39:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] [ppdxg] [MHDXA] This was the last straw!
>
>Rick,
> Apparently you missed a little something about bandwidth on your
>General exam. A SSB signal on 14.225, even USB will have significant
>energy below 14.225 where your General class license does not permit you
>to transmit. A CW signal on 14.025 will have significant signal below
>14.025 at any keying speed you could possible be using, the faster speed
>the more bandwidth. Your general class license does not permit you to
>transmit energy below 14.025 MHz. Don't knock the OO, they are doing a
>very important job of self policing our hobby. Would you rather have
>had an FCC inspector send you an official notice of violation followed
>by a notice of apparent liability if you had answered the violation
>notice with no understanding of the bandwidth issues your signal
>produces? The FCC monitor engineers are very familiar with the
>bandwidth occupied by a radio signal be it SSB or CW. If you operate
>directly on the band edge that you are authorized to operate you WILL BE
>IN VIOLATION. The OO might have saved you a very stiff fine, loss of
>your operating privileges and in extreme cases, confiscation of your
>equipment if you continued to operate in violation of the rules. I have
>received two OO notices in my 38+ years of operation and have
>appreciated them calling my attention to the problems. I also received
>one notice of violation from the FCC on my first day as a novice copying
>me sending at 5 WPM, "Please QRS, This is my first day" They did not
>bother copying the very nice ham who sent back at about 3 WPM, "go up 5
>Kc, you are out of novice band". That probably saved me a stiff fine
>and taught me to pay attention to what I am doing. My rule now is to
>stay at least 3 KHZ from the band edge with a SSB signal and 2 KHz from
>the edge on CW. I also got my Extra so I have less edges to worry about.
>
> Bless the OO and thank them for keeping our hobby clean.
>Bill
>
>Bill Croghan,
>WB0KSW
>Chief Engineer, Lotus Broadcasting,
>Las Vegas, NV.
>
>On 4/1/2011 5:12 PM, Steve **KT0DX** wrote:
>> Rick you must have found two OO's on a bad day as they never do anything
>> the other 364 days a year. When they (OO's) do something about the
>> likes of KZ8O located in Michigan then
>> I might say worry a little about them. Don't sell yourself out over
>> this you are to good of an operator. I enjoy sitting on 14.240 taking
>> in all that you and N0UN talk about in regards to DX operating.
>>
>> Hang in there!
>>
>> Steve
>> KT0DX (Fountain, CO.)
>>
>> On 4/1/2011 16:32, DickT-W0RAA wrote:
>>> Rick, toss them in the circular file. An OO postcard is a reminder,
>>>not
>>> an
>>> official warning. It was not from the FCC. I received one years ago
>>>for
>>> being close to the band edge while mobile. Since I was a new ham I
>>> figured
>>> the FCC was going to be pounding at my door. It never happened. A
>>>friend
>>> told me the same thing that others have said to you: don't sweat it,
>>>but
>>> just be more aware the next time. Now, if you were exactly on 14.025
>>> part
>>> of your signal may have been lower than that. Two ways to solve this
>>> problem. One is to stay a couple kc's away from the band edge and 2,
>>>get
>>> your Extra. If I can do it, you can do it.
>>>
>>> I hope you don't go QRT because of a couple post cards. BTW, if you
>>> decide
>>> to go through with this, I'll give you $500 for everything and if you
>>> throw
>>> in the car with the mobile unit, I'll up my offer to $750. Let me know
>>> ASAP. ;)
>>>
>>> Dick
>>> W0RAA
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Rick WØRIC
>>> To: Telepresence Forum
>>> Cc: Al Reeves ; mhdxa at mhdxa.com ; OB-MJ ; tonyandginger D'Ercole ;
>>> Rich
>>> W9RG ; Grand Mesa Contest Club ; Hank W0CZE ; Larry ; Richie W1STT ;
>>>John
>>> Ayres ; chris&chantal ; raymond ; Don K2DC ; ARS KØKE Keith ; William
>>> Sawders ; Walt K1QS
>>> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 9:08 AM
>>> Subject: [MHDXA] This was the last straw!
>>>
>>>
>>> Yesterday I received not one but two Official Observer cards. Both
>>> basically said I was "out-of-band".
>>>
>>> The first one was from the WPX contest saying that on 14.225 I was
>>> "transmitting out of band". WTF? My General licence says I can TX from
>>> 14.225-14.350
>>>
>>> The second Official Observer notice came from a CW DX contact on
>>> 14.025
>>> saying I was sending CW too close to the "BAND EDGE" of my licence.
>>>
>>> CW on the band edge? WTF???? Are you kidding me?
>>>
>>> OK, so explain to me why is it when we call CQ DX on 14.240 and
>>> stateside
>>> stations QRM we don't hear about these great Official Observers sending
>>> cards to them?
>>>
>>> Also, what about the stations who call over the DX, don't run
>>>split
>>> and
>>> don't hear the DX and actually call the DX on the wrong frequency?
>>>What
>>> are
>>> these great OO's doing?
>>>
>>> So I was up all night thinking about all this. I've decided to
>>>give
>>> it
>all
>>> up.
>>>
>>> I am in the process of listing everything on eBay& eham. Tower,
>>> antenna's, radio's, amp's, mobile etc. It all goes.
>>>
>>> Its been fun knowing all of you and maybe in a decade I'll
>>>reconsider
>>> the
>>> hobby like my good friend Wayne, N0UN did but for now, I AM DONE!
>>>
>>> All the best to all my friends and I hope we remain good friends.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Rick
>>> WØRIC
>>> www.w0ric.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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