I like the idea of encouraging the Technician Class Licensee to participate on ten meter SSB. I do not like the idea of converting CB radios because the person trying to use the converted radio faces even bigger challenges that often encourages him/her to give up. Far too many of these converts with little technical knowledge and little respect for legalities tries to use one of the converted low power radios with the audio gain and thus modulation cranked to the max to maximize the watt meter reading finds no one wants to talk with him. The reason no one will talk to this poor former CBer and new Technician Class Operator is not that we are discriminating and trying to deny him/her the fun, but just that we can't read him because of the distortion and are trying to tell him what is happening to him so that he can fix it or get it fixed. I have told more than one unbelieving soul that the reason that all the Extra, Advanced and General Class licensees are in the Technician band is because we WANT to talk with them and there is no one to talk to on the frequencies where Technicians are prohibited from operating. We put on contests that concentrate activity in the bands where Technicians are allowed to operate. The Ten-Ten International loves to encourage these people. We do not encourage them to buy trashed old CB rigs at garage sales that are difficult to fix with little technical knowledge and for little or no money precisely because we would like to talk with them, encourage them and move them toward becoming great hams like almostall of us. To get a ham license without going through a CB phase you need to be as old as I am (73) or nearly so and license as a child (15 for me) to remember when 11 meters was a ham band. There are only a few of us codgers that qualify to remember the 11 meter ham band and way fewer who actually made a ham transmission there. (I did not!) Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
________________________________ From: Stephen Selberg <ke6...@gmail.com> To: "elecraft@mailman.qth.net" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The Technician Ten Radio Bill, I like the idea...but... Always the but... :) I think the best thing to do, is to really encourage technician licensees to come out to field day and get a feel of the action. I started off as a tech at age 13 and happily enjoyed my 50 mhz + privileges. That was until my first field day with West Valley on Loma Prieta at Charlie's property. The only thing I could talk about after was how I needed to learn CW to get my General ticket to work HF. Boy that was a long time ago. When did Cw go away again? I'm so old hihi. But my point is if we encourage the Technician hams to come out to field day and see how fun HF can be, and then Elmer them and help them pass their general class test, the world will be open to them. And then we can strongly urge them to drink the Elecraft kool-aid (Wayne can I get a referral discount off a KPA500?). I guess what I'm saying is why have a radio that will keep them where they're at and cap their knowledge when it would be better to show them and foster their learning to improve themselves and gain more knowledge of this wonderful hobby. 73, Steve KS6PD On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Merv Schweigert <k...@flex.com> wrote: > No Tom, I do not as that does not interest me in the slightest, But I > have > seen over the years numerous articles on using CB radios on 10 meters, > at one time there was a big push and a lot of mods published for them. > I assume a search of the internet may bring up some of that info. > It may have been in the old 73 magazines or even CQ. > > I dont mean mods for the "free banders" either, these were mods to use the > radios on 10 meters by licensed hams. > >> On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:44:40 -1000 >> Merv Schweigert <k...@flex.com> wrote: >> >> Its what they sell and call a CB radio. Buy one for a couple bucks, >>> a few >>> modifications and bingo your set. Quits working toss it in the trash. >>> And if you dont do mods you dont even need a license.. >>> >>> Merv K9FD/KH6 >>> >>> Do you have any links to what the mods are? >> >> 73 Tom kg7cfc >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
