Last time I checked SSB was a form of AM. Maybee Mr. Johnston is a CW
only opp??
klc
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 0:28 am
Subject: RE: [AMRadio] How can we rid the HF bands of AM ?
>
>
> >I was reading though the recent freebie copy of World Radio News
> today, and
> >someone had written in asking how "we could rid the HF bands of
> AM" !!!
> >They didn't publish the call of who asked the question. The
> issue is at
> >my
> >office now, so I can't provide the page number, but it's in one
> of the "ask
> >your question" sections.
>
> In WorldRadio (the west coast ham radio rag published on
> newsprint), John B.
> Johnston, W3BE, retired chief of the Rulemaking Division of the
> Private
> Radio Bureau of the FCC that used to be in charge of ham radio
> rulemaking
> matters, publishes a monthly column on RULES & REGS. The column
> is
> basically Q-A format, with Johnston sometimes inserting his own
> comments as
> a "W3BE-O-GRAM."
>
> Many readers of this forum will recall that Mr. Johnston seemed to
> pursue a
> consistently anti-AM policy throughout the 20+ years he was
> involved with
> FCC rulemaking. He first gained notoriety within the AM community
> when he
> advocated eliminating AM, in the guise of "deregulation," under
> the
> mid-1970's bandwidth proposal in Docket 20777 (not unlike the
> proposal that
> ARRL is currently discussing). Later, he was a strong defender of
> the 1990
> AM power reduction, and typcially replied to objections from the
> amateur
> community by putting a spin on his response in such a manner to
> totally
> evade whatever issue was brought up.
>
> In the June 2005 column most of the Q-A's are about Field Day and
> who can
> and cannot operate a given licensee's station, but here's the one
> Mark was
> referring to:
>
> Q: How can we rid our HF bands of AM?
>
> A. That would require an amendment to Section 97.3(c)(5), at least.
>
> W3BE-O-GRAM: That would be much harder done than said.
>
>
> Don K4KYV
>
>
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