Topband: WIDEBAND NOISE

[Tom Frenaye]

At 08:18 PM 12/26/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I also discovered (but have not located) some sort of
>remote telephone connection in my neighborhood that
>puts out a 50db/s9 signal on 3530 khz. It operates
>using narowband FM! I listen to their phone
>conversations, faxes, and Internet sessions. I tried
>transmitting on the same fq. and 1.5 KW doesn't bother
>it!
>
>My bottom line is that the FCC has allowed the EIA and
>others to lobby for the manufacture this junk- and
>with the softened part 15 rules, there is very little
>we can do about it. Now the industry wants to use
>spread-spectrum across HF as well. That will probably
>finish us off. The ARRL better get us mobilized to
>fight these battles. What's the use of protecting our
>spectrum is the spectrum we have is not useable??

Sounds like one of the infamous cable modems that have been reported on by 
ARRL in QST and elsewhere.  Suggest you contact Ed Hare, W1RFI at 
w1rfi@arrl.org - he's been actively working with several manufacturers of 
defective cable modems to resolve quite a number of problem devices.   And 
yes, ARRL is working on it, and we are expanding our capability to deal 
with this kind of problem in the future.

                 -- Tom

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