[RFI] Grow-lights -->Here<--

[David Cole]

Hi Dave,

THANK YOU for the idea of including the track data and maps in our
contact letters!!!  I will start doing that. 
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On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 21:48 -0700, David Mulvey wrote:
> Here is a simple idea:
> 
> If you're convinced there's something illegal going on in the noise-source-house, being a mile away, if you mail them a letter without a return address (or use the local dog catcher address), they should not suspect you sent it.  Give them the data you collected, list the RFI rules that are being broke (intentionally or not), and let them know the pending search party by the FCC/PoPo.  Give them a few ideas on how to correct the noise themselves.  Give them time so they don't panic and shoot the next guy with an antenna on their house.  Assume they will want to correct their silly mistake of advertising that they have a grow house in the hood.  Give them a copy of your Google Map with the Pin on the noise source.  Tell them how to use a cheap shortwave/AM radio to verify the noise source and how to verify their corrective measures.
> 
> Continue reading at your own risk (gun talk):
> 
> I'd buy a gun and keep it close anyway.  The police/sheriff can only guarantee they will be there later to do the paperwork if something bad happens, unless you work with them in advance...
> 
> Also, the feds can't even build a website.   There is little reason to expect they would accommodate a few hams that sit in their basement for 36 hours with an hour break for air : )
> The ARRL is the better way, but as an ARRL member, and being that you know a thing or two about finding noise, you could be that ARRL guy that works for free whenever the city gets a call when somebody's TV goes out.  I'm not mocking this idea, but get friends together and form a team to find noise.  See if the local club has an interest in assisting the local city.  That should earn some City-Mayor-Points for later when field day comes around.
> 
> Dave KD6BZN
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Cole
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 7:39 PM
> To: Michael Coslo
> Cc: rfi at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RFI] Grow-light..
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> It is not like that...  Lets say you tag a grow operation 1 mile from you, and you don't know it is a grow operation, but you suspect it is.  
> 
> It and you live in a decent part of town...  You discover that it is a grow as you knock on the door, and a thug answers.  You have the instant danger of being harmed, then lets say you leave unharmed...  
> 
> You turn them in to the FCC.  The FCC then sends them a letter, with your name and address on it...  The ham can live in a nice save area, far from the bad side of town and is still put at risk...  This is not right...  That is my point.  
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> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 09:55 -0400, Michael Coslo wrote:
> > On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:16 AM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > : That is not really a good idea...  What if you are wrong?
> > > 
> > > Would the DEA and ATF bother to show up if they didn't have enough 
> > > evidence gathered on their own?
> > 
> > Yes. Not only that, there have been cases where they have gone in to the wrong house . Killed innocent people. Killed their pets. That could be your house.
> > 
> > > 
> > > From our viewpoint, RFI, blacked out windows, stoners and various 
> > > losers hanging around 24/7, et c., et c, "wonder if I should call?”.
> > 
> > 
> > Who ya gonna call?
> > 
> > If you have any sense of danger, you are going to call a moving company. Pronto.
> > 
> > Because if you are living next to people who are just looking for an excuse to put you six feet under, RFI is somewhere on the level of no problem at all.
> > 
> > If you fear that any contact with them is going to result in your families demise, that danger is there RFI or not.
> > 
> > Any response other than getting yourself out of harms way is just choosing your real estate over your life.
> > 
> > Which is why this argument is silly in my mind. It’s like living next door to an unshielded reactor, and being upset about the color of the building it’s in.
> > 
> > 	- Mike N3LI -
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