Gene Fuller wrote:
Bruce in alaska wrote:


Gene, It would depend on who you purchased your AMP from, and if it was
NEW at the time of purchase. If it was not "NEW" at the time of your
purchase, and you purchased it from another HAM, or another Ham owned
it at some previous time, then it is waived under
47CFRPart97.315(b)4,& 5, and if you Modify your "NEW" Purchase, by
drilling a hole somewhere in
the AMP, to add it to YOUR Station (Modification) they it is waived under
47CFR97.315(b)3(ii), as long as you don't "Modify" more than one AMP
per year, for your personal use. (47CFRPart97.315(a).


Bruce,

Yes, I understand that.

My initial comment was directed at the growing theme in the messages,
not specifically expressed by you, that amateurs could legally use *any*
transmitter as long as output power rules were not violated.

It ain't necessarily so.

A small nit.. "any transmitter" is allowed.. the rules in 97.315 apply
ONLY to external RF power amplifiers, and the class of "forbidden
amplifiers" is actually quite small (a subset of those intended for use
at an amateur station)


And this is in keeping with the concept in the regulation of Amateur
radio: allowing basically everything and exclude a small fraction; which
is different than the whole rest of radio, where it's: exclude most
things, and allow only specific things.