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Forty Years Licensed
On Nov 1, 7:09 am, "Dee Flint" wrote:
All HF rigs that I have permit one to set and transmit SSB in the CW/Data portion. All the HF amateur rigs I have seen will also permit one to transmit data modes in the 'phone/image subbands, which is also against US regs. Some will permit things like too-wide-for-the-regs FM on HF, too. That is operating out of band. Happened to a lot of continental US folks last weekend in the CQ WW contest. I suppose they got excited and weren't paying attention to the frequency readout. Or they don't know the rules well enough to apply them all the time. For example it is against FCC rules for continental US stations to transmit any voice mode in the CW/DATA portion. Whether we like it or not, subbands-by-license-class are a reality for FCC-licensed amateurs. That's a reality which isn't going to change soon, because FCC has repeatedly denied all proposals to eliminate subbands-by-mode or subbands-by-license-class on the HF amateur radio bands. We might someday go to subbands-by-bandwidth, if someone can come up with a reasonable proposal, but the situation won't change much if that happens. We'll still have the case of 'you can't transmit that mode on this frequency'. There's also the fact that we US amateurs - all of us - are allowed by the regs to design, build, repair and modify our rigs, and they don't have to be formally type-accepted or certified. So it makes sense to require us to know the regs rather than expecting our rigs to prevent our mistakes. Even if there is a question in the pool, it may not show up in an actual test. Basically the pool needs to contain several questions of this type to insure that one does show up on the actual test taken. Even if the question shows up on the test, the person can get it wrong. IMHO, one of the fundamental weaknesses of the written tests today is that all subjects and questions are lumped together so that a person can have huge holes in their knowledge yet still pass. This is of particular concern because the holes can be in subjects like safety and regulations. I think it would be better if each test were broken down into subelements-by-subject, and marked in such a way that you'd need a passing grade in each subelement to pass the whole exam. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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