"moparholic" wrote in message
lkaboutradio.com...

Who is it hurting? Many laws are on the books that are not enforced. Like
jaywalking and going 36mph in a 35 mph zone. Just because we are not
sheople who follow "laws" blindly you hams get all bent out of shape.

If they (FCC) are not enforcing their rules and no one cares about it why
do stuck up HAMS care? What 11M DXers do is not hurting your use of ham
bands, you should worry more about cleaning up your own bands.

actually there is a valid point to be made here beside the obvious troll
bait. I am afraid there is more to operating than plugging in a radio and
talking. there is some technical knowledge needed to adjust and operate the
equipment properly, unfortunately freebanders bypass the exam process that
makes sure hams have some minimal level of knowledge. the other part of
this is the public identification of hams by callsigns. since callsigns are
issued by the government and public records are available it is possible to
contact stations with bad signals or that are causing interference for one
reason or another. with freebanders and even cbers operating on the legal
frequencies but with illegal equipment that is not possible. I have
frequently identified interference as far up as 28500khz from stations half
a country away operating obviously maladjusted equipment from 27025khz and
28085khz. These operators can of course not be identified but are obviously
using excessive power and wildly maladjusted equipment. a legal ham who was
causing interference like that would be identified and corrected either by
other hams or the fcc very quickly. as it is now freebanders can be
interfering with operations they can't even hear, or that they hear but
don't realize are legitimate commercial or military users, and there is no
quick way to correct the situation.