Topband: The band sans noise

[Rob Atkinson]

>Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect!

It's a losing battle.   You can't stop the imported appliance tsunami
that has been going on for years, or consumers buying them and
bringing them home and using them.  You can run around and try, good
luck with that, and invest hours and days of your ham hobby time on
that instead of what is enjoyable with your remaining years, and maybe
have a few successes, out of many slammed doors, but for every success
there will be 10 more gadgets coming to a house near you and getting
fired up.  That ship has sailed--the FCC in the U.S. has washed their
hands pretty much, similar to their abandonment of CB enforcement.
Small government and unfettered commerce have won and to be clear, I
am not generally opposed to small gov't and commerce, but in this case
hams took a hit and that's life.

It pays to focus on what you CAN control, which is the stuff on your
property, and RF coming on to your property.  Unless you are not tied
to a job and can move (the only really effective solution) you have to
break out the wallet and spend some doe re mi on a pair of Pixel Loop
antennas and one of the DX Engineering phasing boxes.  If you have
room for anything bigger and farther apart like Flags, Pennants,
beverages and so on, you are probably already in the sticks and don't
have as much of a problem.

73

Rob
K5UJ