Huh? Are you talking CB or ham radio here? 90% of hams I know on HF have 
amps and you can't even tell they have them other than the bigger signals 
here and there. I know people on CB who run dirty but can't say I've seen 
much of it on ham radio unless things have changed since late August. I hope 
to find out soon, I'll hopefully be back on HF soon and if the rumored RACES 
program going away happens around here, it's very possible I may *only* be 
on HF and 900 MHz after that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 2:57 AM
Subject: My response to the new ham creed post


> Hi all,
> I just read the "new ham creed" thread, very interesting.
> I've responded to some of the comments.
> "if you heard someone splattering up and down the band on sideband, you =
> politely broke in, told him about it, and generally the man thanked you =
> for letting him know and made adjustments to fix the problem."
> I have mixed emotions about this topic.
> A few years ago, I criticized a ham about his signal on the air.
> He said to me, "Trippy, you gonna come over here and fix it for me?"
> That shut me up, real quick.
> I've painfully learned ever since that day, if I was gonna criticize =
> another ham for his/her stations performance, I better match my =
> criticism with either telling him/her how to fix it, or, going over =
> there and fixing it myself.
> "these boys were loud, in other words, and often such stations are =
> running pretty big amplifiers which put out a lot more than the legal =
> limit, if you get my meaning,"
> I get the meaning, but you don't know that, meaning, how much power was =
> being used, so why did you even say it?
> Unless you can prove that kind of statement, don't say it.
> "I've seen them literally move off frequency, tell the station too close =
> to their quiet channel to move, and if he does?  They all move down on =
> top of him and talk as if he isn't there."
> I completely agree with this part of the post!
> What I would do in those situations, and have done it myself, is when I =
> hear a station doing that, I record the event happening, and send it to =
> the FCC.
> I've gotten stations licenses taken away and I will continue to do it, =
> when they deliberately get on a frequency that's being used, and start =
> talking, without even seeing if the frequency is in use.  We need =
> another Riley Hollingsworth in our hobby, really, really bad.
> "Anyhow, they got to ragging on him because he wouldn't turn on his =
> amp,"
> Pretty soon, there will be a change in amateur radio.
> Many hams are talking with the FCC about this very issue now, the issue =
> of amps.
> In ham radio, there should be no amps used on HF, everybody should have =
> the 250 watt limit.
> This will result in fair, and more civil, hf operation.
> "100 to 180 foot towers,"
> If I had my way, and could do it financially, I would love to buy a 180 =
> foot tower for every ham, with antennas to go along with it, at least I =
> can dream, right?
> "I thought it was sort of funny he was pissing off the big boys with his =
> weaker signal.  I believe he was doing it on purpose,"
> I hope he was, and I don't blame him for it.  Like you all, I've been =
> that weaker station, and hams with big amps hate those of us who don't =
> have them.
> "There used to be a group on 3.999 called
> the 99ers who pretty much insisted you join them with an amp."
> Well, the 99ers days are numbered, I can tell you that.
> 73,
> Trippy, ac8s