I have seen a number of very selfish hams. They have no problems with grabbing
all the available spectrum with kilowatt plus transmitters, and yet try to
administratively deny low power ops a tiny slice of spectrum to run vintage gear
with a few watts output at most. After all, most vehicular radios are designed
to be fairly short range, tactical systems. Also, the ARRL is absolutely no
help. They have their own agenda. When auction sites tried to stop the sale of
green radios, they couldn't care less. They are apparently only interested in
their contesting constituency.
BTW, with FM radios, you can narrow your spectrum by speaking at a low level and
turning up the receive gain.
-John
Ed Kirkley wrote:
> I know that it's too wide for amateur use but all I was saying is that at
> Hamfests it is used and so far the FCC hasn't seemed to care. I would never
> assume that they will continue to "turn their heads" but so far, for the
> past ten years or so, that's been the case. As another lister said, lighten
> up. MV events and Hamfests let collectors have some fun, that's what they
> are for. They don't harm anyone and I've never heard any complaints, have
> you?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ed Kirkley KG4OUJ
> MVPA 18977
> 1984 M-1009
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jumpmaster" <the_real_jumpmaster@yahoo.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 15:37
> Subject: Re: [MV] Wait! -- RT524 frequencies
>
> >
> > --- Ed Kirkley <mojoedd@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > At
> > > every hamfest that I've been to most of the
> > > "green radio" people are on the 51.00 band on all
> > > sorts of equipment. The F.C.C. is normally there
> > > and I've never had any problems with transmitting
> > > on that frequency.
> >
> > Tell ya what...grab the nearest spectrum analyzer you
> > can find and transmit on 51.000MHz on your PRC-77 and
> > tell me how wide the signal is. It is VERY
> > wide...Anyway, what folks do there is their business
> > but at least now they can't honestly say they didn't
> > know the signal was too wide to be legal.
> >
> > Just because people transmit with exceedingly wide
> > signals doesn't mean it's legal to do so. That's all
> > I was pointing out...you can even transmit a 1MHz wide
> > signal on 6m if you want to -- it's not my license at
> > stake. :-)
> >
> > T. Bloxom
> > AG5U
> > 1985 M1009 CUCV
> >
> >
> >
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