Mike, glad to read one account of the FCC doing something. I have always thought that I'd welcome a visit from them. I have nothing to fear. I know I'm linear, clean (including 2nd harmonic), and under 1.5 kw. AND, I imagine they'd have some fancy super dooper analytical gear with them so I'd learn something new about my station. Amazing how folks think they can walk all over a ham just because he has his station at his home.
73 Rob On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Mike Sawyer <w3...@verizon.net> wrote: > Rob, (et al), > I wouldn't count on the ARRgghhL doing anything to help you other than > send you a few pamphlets. A good friend of mine went through the "Neighbors > complaint about ham radio in their stereo" routine. Every time he lit off > his T-368, he would get phone calls. It got so bad that it became a > political issue. The neighbors complained to the mayor and the mayor told my > friend "I'm going to shut you down!" This made the local news as well. > Anyway, one day he gets a phone call from the FCC office out of NYC. They > want to come down and check his station out, see how he operates, etc. Two > guys from the FCC show their credentials and say they want to run tests etc. > Only one of the neighbors was home at the time so the other guy went there > and listened to the stereo while the one stayed with my friend at his > station. He tuned his T-368 for 375watts stating that was all he was allowed > to operate at. The FCC tech instructed him to tune for max power out. They > went through all the bands and found some slight audio reaching the stereo > on 40M but that was it. They packed up. Told my friend that they loved all > the classic radios that he had there and they thought they were cool. The > tech also told him not to worry that his signal was clean and with in the > parameters of his license. When my friend referred about what the mayor had > threatened him with. The guy said, "WE are the ones that say WHO may operate > and WHO MAY NOT!!! Don't worry about your mayor, we will take care of him." > Nothing else came of the issue other than the fact the mayor lost to his > opponent in the upcoming election. > When I asked my friend if the (be)League(d) did anything for him. He > just pick up a pamphlet that said how to keep RFI out of your house, (about > a 2 page pamphlet). > Thus began and feeds my cynicism about the ARRgghhL to this day. > Mod-U-Lator, > Mike(y) > W3SLK ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
