I can get this on topic! Follow me...
In a message dated 4/15/2005 1:00:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k3tx@fast.net writes:
>>>>>>ARRL was not the instigator
of incentive licensing. It was FCC; ARRL did what could be done to
make what FCC was going to do anyway as acceptable as possible to the
masses. <<<<<<<
That is not how I recall it. ARRL got its butt burned when the FCC took
away 11 meters. CB turned out to be incredibly popular and ARRL wanted to do
something to distinguish us from the unwashed masses of CB operators. I
remember that argument being a prime reason for the incentive licensing.
Incentive
licensing was a fiasco as many predicted and cost ham radio and the ARRL
dearly. Many remain embittered to this day.
Now for the on topic part:
The good news is that software upgradeable radios ala TT will be able to
adjust to changes. It would be nice if there was a feature that guaranteed
you
wouldn't be wider than x hz no matter how badly you adjusted things. Okay, I
know it shouldn't be necessary, but in spite of continued reminders, most
PSK signals are too wide and we hear splatter all over the SSB bands. The FT
1000x's key clicks should have made that radio "type unacceptable" if the FCC
had been paying attention when it went through the approval process. Yaesu
should be ashamed. Unfortunately, all those "shoulds" do not make it "so."
How feasible is it to design the software so the radio can not be overdriven
or overdrive? TT contributed to the problem and not the solution when it
failed to put an ALC output on the Orion. It shouldn't cost more than 50
cents
for a wire and jack but they left it out. Does anyone have a mod to add an
ALC jack to the Orion?
k4ia
Craig "Buck"
Fredericksburg, Virginia USA
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