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Two words: Microprocessor Control. I'll show you how to do it - but - my services as a consultant do not come cheap.

If an amp is offered for sale as a new product, it must be certified. If - on the other hand - you go rooting around Ye Olde Junque-Box and find one of those old Palomar amps...then modify it to comply with spectral-purity regulations, you may use it on 10M (or any other amateur band, for...

'Getting more room' implies expanding the allocation and not adding another mode to the mix. You'll find that - for the same carrier power, frequency of operation, etc - AM is better than FM for 'fringe-area' communications...and SSB is better than both. The FCC might be inclined to...

Continuing where you left off: We also believe it is appropriate to revise our rules to allow manufacturers of amateur radio equipment to market RF power amplifiers that are capable of operating in the 12m and 10m amateur bands but still require that they...

Looks like the Extras get some new freekencies on which to play... :D

Mine can do it quite well - despite the fact that she's blonde. :P In fact, she's currently studying for the General... Agreed. Let me add, IF you can keep the neighborhood kids off the darned things...they're not "play walkie-talkies', contrary to what many people happen to believe...

If you have an AM-only rig, get hold of a pair of SSB units. Many of us are in the same boat as you and need a reliable, medium range alternative to amateur radio. SSB CB (used on channels 36-40) fills that requirement nicely. They'll do that when the band is completely dead as well. I liken...

True for local communications, and it's due to something called 'capture effect'. Basically stated - The strongest signal in your FM demodulator's passband wins. No annoying heterodynes, but with a large number of stations on any one frequency you'll still experience QRM, flutter and other...

You wouldn't be thinking of K1MAN, would you? Or one of his 'co-hosts', an ex-WB2 who voluntarily turned in his license rather than paying a $10.5k fine (which was levied against him for the same infractions)?

Not true. As I've posted before, FM (frequency modulation) and PM (phase, or 'angle' modulation) are both permitted on all amateur bands below 10M - with the exclusion of 30M (CW/data only) and 60M (USB only). Total deviation may not exceed the bandwidth of a DSB full carrier (AM)...

F3 emissions are allowed on all amateur bands below 29 MHZ with the exception of 30 and 60 meters...but...there is a limit to the maximum permissible deviation. The signal can be no wider than its A3 (full carrier) counterpart.

The -only- reason an ARF2001 might fetch a higher price than any other transceiver of its day is due to the fact that ~1000 of them were built. Their design was slightly different than some other manufacturer's hardware but the net effect was a rig whose AM performance was less than stellar...

One that's type-accepted for use in the CB services does, assuming no one has 'peaked' it. As far as exports are concerned...all bets are off.

You're going about it all wrong. Get the girl FIRST...then get her involved in the hobby...buy a rig for her...etc. Did exactly that. The only problem I've encountered thus far is for every gear purchase I make, it has to be X2 because my XYL has been known to "...co-opt..." various...

Submitted for your consideration: *Linky* There's yet another cite for over-the-roaders chit-chatting on 28.085. Folks - if you insist on operating outside the 'regular 40' - please don't do it where the mode you're using sticks out like a sore thumb. Since .085 is heavily monitored as...

In actuality, the wider the receiver's IF bandwidth the better this technique works. If you try to slope-tune an FM signal with an AM rig whose IF chain has a filter narrower than ~6khz, you're not going to effectively recover the full audio spectrum. One of my R7s has the following filter...

After checking the eHam link, I've come to the conclusion that the individual in question has got to be one of the biggest horse's arses on the planet...writing a tongue-in-cheek article about jamming is one thing, but actually engaging in such then daring Hollingsworth to do something about it...

I have one of those - an MO-4 mast w/ resonators - on my truck, a full-size Ford Bronco. Works well... There are a number of mobile rigs at my disposal but the two I use most often are the Swan/Cubic Astro 150A and Cubic's Astro D. The former covers 80-10M with a bit of non-amateur...

Some of you might find *This link* to be quite interesting. Pay attention to the proposed transmitter 'upgrades' as detailed in the Oct. 2 entry. And the gent thinks he'll get away with running such a station...