Many years ago, a fellow from a house 3 houses down, called and cursing
(I have known him since we were kids (I am 61) and he was quite probably
drunk) that I was tearing up his mothers TV on an antenna. I was running
100w 6m digital meteor scatter. 4 el beam pointed in their direction.
He threatened to call the FCC. My response was, hold on a moment I will
get you their telephone number :-). He then hung up on me. Never heard
anymore about it. We now converse at Walmart like nothing ever happened.
After the call, I looked and the only antenna on the house was one of
those wing shaped camper antennas at most 20' high trying to pick up
Memphis more than 50 miles away. Geezz....
Another neighbor (a nice fellow about a block away), also many years
ago, was on cable TV getting interference on Ch 18 (2 meters and one of
his favorite channels) when I was on FM. He, the city administrator, a
cable tech, and I met at his house. Of course the conversation from the
administrator and cable tech leaned towards it my fault even though the
neighbor was on my side. I could feel the trend going towards them
threatening to call the FCC.
I tried to explain to them that CATV is suppose to be a closed system,
etc which seemed to fall on deaf ears. To prove my point I put the TV on
Ch 19 (power co freq, their tower about 1/2 mile away). Then called the
power co and ask them to key their transmitter (while I had my HT tuned
to them). As they did it wiped out 19. The look on their faces was
priceless, lol
I sure like digital TV :-)
Chuck
W4NBO
On 8/12/21 1:02 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
Oh,.....this wonderful digital age. Where is FCC??????
Why even have Part 15 if there is no enforcement?????
I know, ....., I'm opening a forbidden can of worms, but.........
Dave - WØLEV
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