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Subject: [TenTec] Amplifier Regulations
From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
Reply-to: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:53:04 -1000
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Having owned the last three vintages of the Titan, the only difference
with the "425E" was 10 & 12 enabled from the factory.
They all had 10 meters silk screened on the front panel. The 10 meter conversion was very simple to enable after
the top cover was removed to install the transformer.
As with every other commercially built amplifier, the modification required to make it work on 10 meters ( which in almost every case will also make it work on 11 meters ) is "very simple". Yet FCC 97.315 (b) says, in part:

(b) Certification shall be denied when:

      (2) The amplifier can be easily modified to operate on
      frequencies between 26 MHz and 28 MHz.

I suppose that one could argue that "very simple" does not equal "easily".

Seems like this is one of those rules, so poorly thought out and written, that it either can not or should not be enforced. No doubt it is enforced selectively like other rules that fall into that same category.

DE N6KB



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