Again, you are missing the point....I don't know if you are deliberately skirting the issue or whether you just don't know enough about propagation.
I know a lot about propogation, lol. 11M goes all over the place when the band is open. SO? we already know that.
Specifically: If lets say ten ham operators within 50 miles of eachother are using 25kc wide FM @ 1000w, NOBODY ELSE within the diameter of each of those guy's signals will be able to use SSB.
They're not going to though, because it's stupid. Even CBers don't like FM on 11M. It "being legal' will change nothing...
Address that issue specifically. Please.
It's not an issue, and it will not be an issue, well, at least any more than the current chaos is.
Lol, you are missing my point. There are literally thousands of transceivers on 11M with an FM position a
lready on the selector.
Nobody uses it. This apocalypse you speak of
hasn't happened over the past 20+ years. Actually it's longer than that, even. I don't expect anything will change. Especially not with dwindling participation. How many people other than OTR truck drivers are even installing new CBs in vehicles? Even most of the jeep guys don't do it anymore. Every enthusiast 11M operator I know
already has an FM capable rig. And probably a good 50% of truck drivers already do, too. The ones that don't, don't care. Their radio sits on ch19 with their half broken firestick antenna, and if it gets them a few miles up and down the road thats all they need. When these radios hit the market absolutely nothing will happen. A few truck drivers will f*** around with the FM position for a few minutes with their buddies and then they'll go back to AM and forget its there. Just like the people with FM already do, now.
If Jimmy Peng could respond to this thread he would laugh at your apocalyptic outlook. He would say something like "Listen to me, round eye! I have been importing.... 40 foot containers.... full of CB radio, with FM knob... since when disco was big deal!!! FCC try to stop me, but I just pay fine and laugh at them. " Actually he wouldnt say that, because from what I understand he was a nicer guy that that, but he would definitely still laugh at your assertion.
My point: FM is not "new" to 11M regardless of the FCC's feelings on the matter. Nor is their regulatory posture going to radically alter how people use CB radio service. To believe
otherwise is completely delusional and not aware of the history of use and abuse on the band, and the existing use patterns which are heavily rooted in legacy. The only thing that will happen is a herd of new, weak, shitty type accepted radios will come out that have a 2nd or 4th position on the mode knob that will sit basically unused by most people that will end up buying them. They will end up in some OTR trucks and such and an errant motorhome, jeep, tractor or two, but the FM detent will still mostly go unused. Especially considering lots of these itinerant type users that buy type accepted junk use the radio very little anyways. (I mean lets face it, type accepted CBs pretty much suck) They turn it on 19, try to get info from the truckers, then when they're done they turn it off.
Also, expense has little to do with the issue. People are paying up to $15,000 for high end radios and an amplifier capable of 5-10 kw can be had or built for a fraction of that amd the prices on solid state high power modules is coming down rapidly.
Expense has a lot to do with it. Most US hams are f***ing skinflints, for starters. Most don't want to pay for Heliax or $50 connectors, etc. Also after a point, it virtually forces
monobanding or narrow banded antennas, so you can get around the hassle of impedance matching a lot of juice. Maybe within the top 3% of US HF
stations there are some dedicated enough to do it, most wince at their wallet and go load up their G5RV with their MFJ tuner they just fixed with the cold solder joints in
it. Most of the products in the market off the shelf can't cope with more than a couple KW, so that means all custom shit. The community of people running over 3K in this country is pretty small. Not to mention they cant talk to many about it because 80% of their fellow hams would turn their own mother into the kopsch. There's just that knowing nod at the hamfest when you see some guy with a two wheeler with bulging wheels pushing a transformer large enough to power a tetrode with handles....
Also Mosfets? Last I looked a BLF188XR wasn't cheap. Like $180 or some shit. Blow 4 of those and you're out over 700 bucks. Unless there's some magical $20 device that makes 1KW. Building large mosfet amps is challenging. Nobody really bothers going past like 4 modules on those because then keeping the whole pile of shit stable becomes challenging. It's much easier to just build off a steel tube.
It's always going to be expensive, at least in terms a skinflint ham can't tolerate.
Even if you do your own work and build your own shit, it's still expensive.