Piggie

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EscapeVelocity

I shall refrain from expressing political opinions on this site.

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HTNut

I was expecting some kind of special antenna that could cause some kind of intereference, but not a Phillips Mant300! Someone ought to get the press on this.

Piggie

It's a European Leftist Pinko Commie Plot I am sure to undermine the DTV transition and force us to convert to DVB?

But just in case I am reading your mind, the FCC when down hill in the early 80's with cut backs in field offices, smaller government. The old timers were retired and replaced with new blood.

Here is what this new blood did to me, 1986........ I copied it from the chat box.

I got cited by the FCC once. A woman said she was having trouble receiving WESH 2 and WJTX 4. This is 20 year ago.
I had moved and sold the guy my trailer with my tower in the back yard.
The FCC looked up my address and saw the tower and bingo, I had a citation.
Now the funny part is they didn't even knock on the door. If they had the guy that bought it would have been there.
And if they had of really looked on their records I had already filed for a change of address 6 months earlier.
So I had to write a letter to the FCC with a photo copy of my license THEY issued me showing I didn't live there and swear on a stack of bibles I was telling the truth.
Then they asked me if the guy that lived had ham radio gear. I told they should ask him, but I didn't think so.
It was stupid as stupid gets, all the time them being Uncle Charlie.
My boss Mike the chief at WCJB walked in the engineering room while I was ranting to another ham in there. Between them they calmed me down, and Mike checked with the stations attorney how to write the letter. They never apologized and would not
even send me a letter saying it was resolved. They said my letter to them proved it was resolved. Hello???
I lost a LOT of respect that day.

So if this change of standard operating procedure is political it at least dates back to 1986. Back in the 1970's Field Agent Robinson knew every ham in Florida, because he had licensed most of them, including me.

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Piggie

You're right, I should call all the news papers and stations to see if anyone is interested, but they won't be, it doesn't have the piazzas needed for news.

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EscapeVelocity

I heard Cuba has an excellent regulatory regime.

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bicker

The FCC has always gone after anything that interfered with licensed signals.

As it is, she is simply being officially informed that the device she purchased was in violation. There is nothing even remotely provocative about that. She probably got a defective device that wasn't properly shielded. And she now has an impressive document she can fax to the manufacturer to get the manufacturer to correct the error quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience.

Eureka

I hope they're as aggressive with interference from upcoming white space devices as they were with this poor woman's tv antenna.

bicker

If those devices are unlicensed to operate in that manner, I bet they will be. I think the difference will be is that a certain amount of "interference" between different licensed services is considered acceptable, even if some of us don't personally want such things considered acceptable.

TVTom51

How can a little indoor antenna possibly malfunction and put out interference like that? Enough to actually interfere with cell phone signals?