Don, you and several others I can think of could do a
petition on this topic. Want suggestions for help? I would
support it as would many others here and on other boards.
Jim
W5JO
The biggest problem I see is that the FCC would have to
admit that they were in error with the original p.e.p.
ruling. Government agencies don't like to do that. And
it doesn't matter which party is in power. I watched the
FCC through the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I and
Clinton administrations. Didn't see one iota of difference
in FCC behaviour during the entire period.
The FCC claimed they would be put to a severe hardship to
write the power output rules in such a way as to maintain
the original AM power limit. But they did exactly that
with the CB rules.
They could have made a similar ruling with amateur radio
power. 750 watts carrier output for AM, CW, FM, RTTY and
other carrier modes. 1500 watts p.e.p. for SSB and other
carrierless modes.
One problem now would be that to go to that power limit
definition, would cause CW, RTTY and FM to lose
privileges. Under the one-size-fits-all approach
railroaded through under Johnston, they doubled the
historic power level for those modes, even though CW
probably needed a power increase least of all.
Don,
k4kyv
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