Regarding the Broadcast Splatter, I received this from Cal WA2IZL. For
those of you experiencing this interference, I would invest in phone calls
to the numbers he lists...I certainly am! Can any of you VE's help?
73, Bill W4ZV
>From: Cal <wa2izl@ptd.net>
>Subject: Re: TopBand: Broadcast Music Splatter
>Hello Bill just a note regarding the broadcast station splatter..after a
>LOT of checking between myself, Tom and Bob, we found the station to be
>station CHNR up in Canada and its operating freq is 1.6 mhz. I personally
>have called the FCC - NCC (international branch of the FCC) to formally
>lodge a complaint. I would strongly recommend that yourself as well as
>other stations also call and do the same. This will insure that we get
>some results. The person I spoke with was Tom, last name unknown, and as
>he put it to me, they move very slowly. He has written up the complaint
>from the standpoint of interference to the whole specrtum rather that just
>the amateur portion. Also be advised that the station itself has been
>notified by two hams in Canada and they do not have in their employ an site
>engineer but rely on a outside consultant to fix any problems. The
>managements answer to the question as to time element was that they would
>fix it when they "got around to it". As you can see they do not rate thier
>priorities as we do here in the states. Also one of the "group" members
>has already been in touch with the station engineer in Buffalo at WKBW who
>happens to be a personal friend, who is also going to try to get some kind
>of inside track as to expediting a end to this problem. So there you have
>it. I will be placing a call in the AM to the Canadian equivilant of the
>FCC to lodge a complaint as well. By the way if you put your rig to the AM
>mode you can copy quite well. By using the FT-1000's dual rcv with one at
>about 1.730 and the sub at 1.600, you can copy quite well. The phone
>numbers for both agencies are as follows:
>
>FCC - NCC branch 888-225-5322
>
>Canadian branch 613-998-3420
>
>
>73's
>
>Cal..WA2IZL
>
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