Don,
Your approach is right on. When I knock on the door I essentially tell
the person the following and leave a written notice if they are
uncooperative:
Official Notice of Interference
Hi,
I have traced electrical interference coming from your residence.It is
interfering with my Federally licensedradio station.This violates
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) rules.I am willing to work with
you to fix this problem
My name is Tom and my contact information is:
Cell:303 519 XXXX
Email: rfinoise@gmail.com.
Thank you.I hope to hear from you soon.
Tom
The response is usually positive. In fact one grower volunteered to
introduce me to other growers in the neighborhood if it was necessary.
73, Tom W0IVJ
On 3/28/2014 8:34 PM, Donald Chester wrote:
Without going back in the thread, since you probably don't need to worry
about a grow operation, how about approaching them nicely and talking to
them? This noise could be causing other problems for them and they
could be happy to have some help.
The noise could also be some problem with their electrical system which
could be very dangerous? Who knows.
Mike W0MU
If you suspect a near-by light is being used for some kind of "illegal"
growing operation, you might be able to use that as leverage, to your advantage. If the
people with the lights are less than totally cooperative, tell them, or better still
demonstrate with a portable radio, that the thing is radiating all over the neighbourhood
and could well attract unwanted attention unless they clean it up immediately. You could
offer them advice on how to do it or tell them where they could go to find out the
information for themselves. Be friendly and let them know you don't care what they might
be growing in the privacy of their own home, and that you aren't interested in reporting
this to anyone further, on the condition that the interference goes away.
Maybe the story would spread by word of mouth amongst their friends and
associates, perhaps even over internet, and this would help alleviate this
problem elsewhere as well.
Don k4kyv
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