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AJ Lake · September 19th 08, 07:03 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

wrote:

AJ Lake wrote:

The treaty applied to 30MHz and below.

No, it applied to 1000 MHz and below
back when the Technician was created

Do you have the sources? I couldn't find anything but 30MHz. But I'll
stand corrected since you're certainly the undisputed historian here.

What mode would a 1950s or 1960s ham use for moonbounce? Aurora?
Meteor or tropo scatter? Satellite comms?

CW was the best weak signal mode in those days. Your point?

You can just imagine the reaction from hams who'd worked hard to get
their Advanceds or Extras, then suddenly found the HF 'phone
bands flooded with Generals and Conditionals who had the same privileges.

Probably like having the HF frequencies flooded by no-coders... 8-O

No, much worse.

Ouch. I guess you don't like no-coders on your HF bands.

If I were made boss, the maximum power allowed for any class
would be 100W.

How's anybody gonna work EME with that?

EME is possible with a 100 watts. But CW ain't up to it. It takes
digital signal processing...

But the Class A didn't disappear. In the 1951 restructuring,
it was renamed "Advanced",

In a prior post you said the Tech+ will "disappear" because it will be
renewed (and thus renamed) a Tech. Now you say the Class A *didn't
disappear* when it was renamed as the Advanced. Can't have it both
ways...

From your last post:
"The first license class to disappear completely will be the Tech
Plus, because FCC has been renewing them as Technician since April
2000. In another 19 months the last Tech Plus should disappear."