If a short wave station is intefering, constantly, with licensed operations in another part of the world, they are not following international regulations to the letter. First, SWBC stations may NOT direct their signals to an area of the world wherein that frequency is assigned to other uses (I.E. ham radio), according to ITU regulations. The problem comes in that when they are running millions of watts, the front to back ratio, even if what would be considered a "great" front to back figure - the reverses direction still is thousands of watts. Second, and at least in the past; many countries did not obligate their own stations from followng the rules.
We do NOT have to tolerate such action. If that happens, we have every right to expect our own FCC and the ITU to make direct complaints to said countries. They are not always successful, but in many case they have been able to convince the foreign governments to ineed step in and do something about the inteference. That said, we do NOT have to put up with it on the ham bands. Again we have every right to insist the FCC shut down any amateur operation that would intefere with assigned amateur bands and other mode operations within them. It all comes down to "proper operating practices". Danny Douglas N7DC ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all DX 2-6 years each . QSL LOTW-buro- direct As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you use that - also pls upload to LOTW or hard card. moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DXandTalk ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: WinDRM Digital Voice > Most hams want to do the right thing when it comes to operating on our > very limited frequencies. That means keeping our signals as narrow as we > possibly can to reduce interference to others. The FCC rules state that > we should operate with good amateur practices and have also said that > >