From: "K0HB" on Tues 12 Jul 2005 21:43


"an_old_friend" wrote

By that I don't have too

If you are responsible for proper operation of your station (and those rules
apply equally above 30MHz as they do below), then you must have a method to
determine that your station complies with the Rules.

Absolutely TRUE! Has always been such...

How do you do that at your station?

Irrelevant and a troll-cast.

"Everyone knows" that amateur extras are SO gifted by their
federal "qualifications" that they merely lay hands on the
equipment and they can immediately sense all and determine
the EXACT operating characteristics. Not a problem.

Morsemanship insures immediate compliance to the
RESPONSIBILITES of station technical characteristics...

Or...as an alternate...they can come in here and blame it all
on the evil manufacturers (for not giving them indestructible,
always-in-calibration radios) or the Citizen Banders.
[the CB crowd is the root of all evil to mighty macho
morsemen...caused them to lose that big, wide 11m band
way back 47 yarns ago]

Meanwhile, the pros, who long ago realized that electrons
only obey the natural laws of physics (and not the prideful
accomplished "qualifications" of morsemen's emotions) and
therefore use calibrated equipment, either ready-built or
built-tested-calibrated by themselves, just measure the
radios as best they can. shrug Hams will believe as
Holy Gospel the once-made-and-never-repeated-later "reviews"
in QST. ARRL is "on the job" with fine-looking numbers,
oddly coincident with the radio makers advertising in QST.
The league measures all for the hams' benefit...

bit bit