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April 14th 04, 04:16 AM
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April 14th 04, 04:41 PM
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"Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (Jason Hsu) writes: Under the ARRL's proposal, current Novices will have certain privileges REDUCED. That's not in the RM-10867 Petition for Rule Making I downloaded. Novices are currently allowed to transmit up to 200W on 80m, 40m, 15m, and 10m. Under the proposal, Novices would be restricted to 100W on 80m, 40m, and 15m and 50W on 10m. Also, Novices are currently allowed to transmit on 1270-1295 MHz but would be banned from that band in the proposal. Don't you think it's unfair to current Novices to cut their privileges just so that the new Novices won't have to be tested on RF safety? The number of Novices thatactually are on the air with rigs that are over 100w but under 200 is probably miniscule. The issue, if any, is more likly the 10m 50w limitation. I think that's all but totally unenforceable. The number of Novices that operate 1270-1295 MHz is probably ZERO. I see NO downside to the newly proposed Novice privileges, especially since there are only about 32,000 current Novice license holders now (less than 5% of all USA hams) ....and that number is constantly going down. Cheers, Bill K2UNK |
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April 15th 04, 02:45 AM
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"Bill Sohl" wrote in message link.net...
"Jason Hsu" wrote in message om... (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (Jason Hsu) writes: Under the ARRL's proposal, current Novices will have certain privileges REDUCED. That's not in the RM-10867 Petition for Rule Making I downloaded. Novices are currently allowed to transmit up to 200W on 80m, 40m, 15m, and 10m. Under the proposal, Novices would be restricted to 100W on 80m, 40m, and 15m and 50W on 10m. Also, Novices are currently allowed to transmit on 1270-1295 MHz but would be banned from that band in the proposal. Don't you think it's unfair to current Novices to cut their privileges just so that the new Novices won't have to be tested on RF safety? The number of Novices thatactually are on the air with rigs that are over 100w but under 200 is probably miniscule. The issue, if any, is more likly the 10m 50w limitation. I think that's all but totally unenforceable. The number of Novices that operate 1270-1295 MHz is probably ZERO. I see NO downside to the newly proposed Novice privileges, especially since there are only about 32,000 current Novice license holders now (less than 5% of all USA hams) ...and that number is constantly going down. Cheers, Bill K2UNK Great! Just Great! We've got Hans referring to this as the "Great Giveaway." We've got Jason referring to it as the "Great Takeaway." I won't be able to sleep until TAFKARJ weighs in on this matter. |
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April 15th 04, 08:08 PM
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In article ,
(Jason Hsu) writes: (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (Jason Hsu) writes: Under the ARRL's proposal, current Novices will have certain privileges REDUCED. That's not in the RM-10867 Petition for Rule Making I downloaded. Novices are currently allowed to transmit up to 200W on 80m, 40m, 15m, and 10m. Under the proposal, Novices would be restricted to 100W on 80m, 40m, and 15m and 50W on 10m. Also, Novices are currently allowed to transmit on 1270-1295 MHz but would be banned from that band in the proposal. What can I say? The ARRL wants to "put Novices in their place" and be nice subservient little serfs to the mighty morsemen of the membership...from the impression they've always shown me. If there's nit-picking needed (I think not) then in the final Report & Order that MAY be issued, FCC will pick up on all the fly specks and separate it from the pepper. IF and only IF ARRL will rule as the "final winner" after no less than 18 petitions in one year's time. Don't you think it's unfair to current Novices to cut their privileges just so that the new Novices won't have to be tested on RF safety? Just WHICH "RF safety" thing are you thinking of? If it's personal "RF safety" then it is a matter of whether an individual wants to either suicide or achieve bodily harm...about the same as whether or not they won't have accidents climbing a tower or tree putting up that "DX-winning super antenna." If it's about the OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPOSURE "RF safety," then I think it is a lot of hooey as a result of mass paranoia of cell phones next to the head or the ugliness of MHV power lines spoiling orderly farm land or fear of unspecified fearsome RADIATION boogeythings. Okay, that's the LAW [97.13 in case you haven't looked it up yet or haven't heard of Part 1]. Maybe the LAW is a good thing, maybe it's a lot of extraneous nonsense that doesn't need Federal Regulations (!) in a form of Witless Protection Program. Back in Junior High basic electricity shop class in 1947 I and all classmates learned the "left-hand rule" (for right-handers) which said "keep the left hand in the pocket if you have no choice about turning the power off and working with the right hand...that keeps a circuit from going through your heart." Since we'd all had basic biology by then, that made a lot of sense. Later at Fort Monmouth Signal School in 1952 a radar basics instructor stuck a ball of steel wool on a bamboo pole in front of a live 1 MW search radar beam. The steel wool burned. Steel wool doesn't burn by itself. Class duly impressed, lesson learned in a few seconds. Wasn't any Federal Law on RF exposure then in any radio service. Between 1953 and 1956 I worked IN an HF RF field of about 100 to 200 KW total RF energy, lived IN that field for five months, 24/7. At least 600 others did also in that time at that same station, not to mention all the civilian farmers living IN that same field. Given same conditions at different sites around the world, tens of thousands have been exposed to high levels of RF. Nobody got cooked, fried, or rare. Was no LAW on RF exposure then or in any radio service. Was so until the 1990s and the Big Radiation Paranoia time. If there is so much "worry" over personal safety, do you think any public safety agency of any kind can arrest and prosecute a suicide? [go ahead, make my day...] Worry instead about using your mighty amateur knowledge in TEACHING others about electrical/RF safety, common sense in live circuits, etc. If there is so much "worry" over Other People's RF safety, then I'd suggest you or anyone else get a prescription for a tranquilizer from your personal physician. That MD can't cure legislated paranoia but it will make you feel better. It also might give you and others some tranquility to look into more meaningful radio subjects and quit trying to separate legal fly specks from paranoia pepper. LHA / WMD |
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