[BC] Join us on AM?

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In a message dated 3/6/07 12:00:30 AM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

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 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:54:02 -0500
 From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" 
 Subject: Re: [BC] join us on AM ?
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 Technically you are supposed to use only the minimum power/facilities to
 communicate, and no more.  NRSC 10.2 khz audio on 160 meters is probably not
 legal, but probably also overlooked.
 
 Paul Smith
 W4KNX
 Sarasota, FL >>

Paul:

Who gets to make that decision, regarding how much facilities is enough? It 
seems that if I'm active in a QSO with someone, that 50% of that decision is 
mine. The decision is entirely subjective and a matter of opinion and thus, very 
hard to define. And what is the definition of communicating? You can miss one 
word and miss the meaning of a message. 

Nothing more irritating that having an interesting QSO, only to have some dip 
*** park 1 KHz away and thus destroy a good QSO. What I usually do is run the 
"exciter" at about 25% of its 100 watts full output. Then when I get a report 
that I'm getting trampled, I bump it up to 100 watts and fire up the linear 
amplifier. Then I make corrections based on what the guy at the other end tells 
me.

There are people that become rabid whenever someone wants to run more than 1 
watt; I don't have much use for these people. I f they want to QRP, fine, 
leave me the hell alone. It is no more "wrong" for me to run QRO as it is for them 
to run QRP. The difference is, I don't give them a hard time for not running 
enough power to be reliably heard without giving me a headache, pulling them 
out of the noise. Those people would probably want to have me drawn and 
quartered, even though I'm getting QRM'ed; they will likely accuse me of using too 
much facilities.

The FCC should either consider a power increase for the amateur service, or 
eliminate the limit entirely with severe fines for out of channel radiation. If 
you're running QRO, you damned well better know what you're doing. It also 
might help the BPL interference issue. And with higher power, other problems are 
obviously created; a subject for a different and likely passionate thread.

Jeff Glass
WB9ETG