Igor, I think, at least in part, the regulation is intended to make amateur amplifiers less attractive to users of the Citizen's Radio Service.
Rather than being able to go from 5W to 1000+W with a single, relatively inexpensive amp, an amp to get from 5W to ~100W is needed in order to drive the KW amp.. And except for Elecraft, I'm not aware of any other 5->100W amplifiers. 73, Dave KQ3T On 12/22/2010 1:29 AM, Igor Kosvin wrote: > Is there any technical merit behind FCC's 15dB amp gain limitation? I saw > commercial RF amplifiers with gains up to 30dB, obviously approved by FCC. I > could understand the limitation for tube amplifiers, the characteristics of > some amp tubes would make high gain unstable. But for solid state amplifiers > the limitation looks strange to say the least. Maybe it's time to ask FCC to > reconsider this. Any ARRL lawyers out there? > 73, > Igor, N1YX > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
