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> there are hams that do hidden transmitter hunts purely for sport. A posse of them could find that clown easily on any random Saturday morning and not be late
by inetknght 7y ago
> there are hams that do hidden transmitter hunts purely for sport. A posse of them could find that clown easily on any random Saturday morning and not be late for lunch.
So why don't they?
- p_l 7y agoYou need to get the community organised for a hunt. I recall one that happened when a rogue retransmitter managed to spill religious radio onto TWR2 frequency at local Airport
- dbcurtis 7y agoWhat is a bunch of random nerds going to do? They have no power to fine or arrest. All they can do is document the evidence and turn it over to the FCC, which does happen on occasion. But, I have listened to ARRL division directors talking about trying for years to get well-documented egregious cases of malicious interference dealt with by the FCC. The FCC just can not be bothered. It's not so much that they can't be bothered to collect evidence, which they can't, but even if they have evidence, that can't be bothered to act on it. The FCC should be a technical organization but is pathetically political. One of my ham friends deals with the FCC often, because he works in spectrum management at the NTIA. The stories he tells make me never want to set foot in D.C. except to visit all the museums that my taxes fund.