03-01-18 16:50 Nil Alexandrov wrote to All about ARRL Requests Expanded HF   
   Howdy! Nil,   
      
    NA> @MSGID: <5A98941E.1766.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>   
    NA> Hello, All!   
      
    NA> http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-requests-expanded-hf-privileges-for-techni   
    NA> cian-licensees   
      
    NA> ARRL proposes to provide Technician licensees, present and future, with   
    NA> phone privileges at 3.900 to 4.000 MHz, 7.225 to 7.300 MHz, and 21.350   
    NA> to 21.450 MHz, plus RTTY and digital privileges in current Technician   
    NA> allocations on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters.   
      
   I started to read ARLB007 in the FIDO LS_ARRL Echo on this BBS and it   
   started some thoughts in my mind about why the ARRL would want this   
   Modification of the F.C.C. Part 97 Amateur Radio Rules and Regulations?   
      
   So I came here to the FIDO AMT_Radio Echo to see if anyone has written   
   about this topic after only reading about 15 lines of ARLB007.   
      
   Thanks Nil.   
      
   I'm thinking the proposal was to help Amateur Radio Manufacturers.   
   But I may be wrong.   
      
   I became KN4ZIQ in the Summer of 1958 (A Novice) and joined the A.R.R.L.   
   With my Novice License I could operate on 80M, 40M, 15M CW and 2M AM.   
   I got a 40M crystal for my Heathkit DX-40 and later got a 80M crystal.   
   When I got a crystal for 15M, it caused a problem with the Television   
   set downstairs so I only used it at another Hams QTH.   
      
   I attended a Ham Club meeting and saw a 2M Radio in the Shack but learned   
   only a few Hams in my area were on 2M, so never got interested in it.   
      
   During that One Year period I took the General test but flunked it.   
      
   My License term was just about over and the F.C.C. was coming to my   
   area in the Spring of 1959, some weeks after the Dayton (Ohio) Hamfest.   
      
   I wanted to keep my 'ZIQ' Call Sign so I took the Technician Test in Dayton.   
   My code speed was above 5 WPM, so CW wasn't a problem.   
      
   I knew the Rules & Regs allowed me to take the General Test the next month   
   because the second test would be for a higher Class License and I wouldn't   
   have to wait the 6 Month period as if I was taking a test for the same   
   Class of License.   
      
   Then I took the General Test when the F.C.C. came to my area.   
      
   Later the F.C.C. sent me a Tech License making me K4ZIQ.   
      
   A few weeks later I received a second letter from the F.C.C.   
   In it was a General Class License K4ZIQ with a note in it saying   
   because they have issued the Technician License to me recently,   
   this General License would not be Valid until I mailed the Tech License   
   back to the F.C.C.   
      
   That didn't take me but a few minutes to get that old Tech ticket in   
   a envelope and walk to the corner and drop it in the mailbox.   
      
   I was a A.R.R.L. Member for about 10 Years.   
      
   I saw a Full Page Citizens Band Radio advertisement in QST and wrote   
   A.R.R.L. about my seeing it, and received a letter from them saying the   
   Manufacturer of the C.B. Radio (Raytheon) also had another Full Page ad   
   for a SBE Amateur Radio in the same issue of QST.   
      
   I can't remember if that was the reason I decided to stop being a member of   
   "The League" or not.   
      
   When I learned the A.R.R.L. had a idea to adjust the Frequencies the General   
   Class License allowed me to use, I didn't care for that at all.   
      
   My thoughts about that was to Limit the Mode used not the Frequency one   
   could use with a certain Class of License.   
      
   Why not allow Amateur Extra Class Operators to use Single Sideband and still   
   allow General and Conditional Class Operators to talk with the Extra's while   
   still using their AM TX's on the same freq.?   
      
   I never wrote the A.R.R.L or the F.C.C. with my thoughts, so I guess it's   
   "Ed's Fault!" things got Polarized as they are now.   
      
   In the mid-1960's I built a Heathkit HW-29a "Sixer".   
   I used it Mobile with a Viberator Power Supply and unplugging the   
   Antenna Lead from the back of the Car Radio and slipping an adapter   
   on the cable to plug the lead into my Sixer.   
      
   I moved to 9 Land in the late-1960's and only found one Ham nearby on 6M.   
      
   In the mid-1970's I moved closer to town and could use the Sixer to make   
   lots of QSO's from the car.   
      
   I learned about the 2M FM Repeaters, so I bought a portable AM-FM-VHF   
   Radio to use at work to listen to the Hams talk.   
   Soon after listening to 2M, I bought a Regency HR-2 to talk on the   
   area Repeaters.   
      
   One of the Hams I met on 2M also used 6M and I used the Sixer to talk   
   with him.   
   Then one day I was visiting a neighbor who built a Heathkit Television Set   
   and was told they could hear me when I was talking on 6M, so I QRT using   
   6M so not to be bothering what they were watching on TV.   
      
   BTW, when He finished building the Heath TV I took my Heath VTVM and   
   HV Probe over there for him to use to adjust the High Voltage section.   
      
   I may be a LID but I try to be a GOOD LID!   
      
   I am going to go back to the other Echo and read all of what that ARLB007   
   says.   
      
   What I've read so far doesn't sound good to me.......   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR   .  .   
      
      
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