!0 years ago I called the FCC filed office, found out
who was "responsable" and started trying to contact
them. Repated voice mails, emails and regular snail
mails did nothing but raise my blood preasure.
I never got a response from the clown.
While I was wsting time and energy a cold snap,
10F hit, and the damn bulb blew, like BANG, in less
then an hour. I tried to carry on, but when I told
the field engineer the noise had qui, he got very
uncooperative. Told me there was no longer a
problem and they (FCC) had real work to do.
I even contacted the local US attourny and got a royal
run around.
At about the same time we had several fools in the central
KY area using modified crossband ham transcievers to
crossband state police comms into county PD freqs.
Even the police couldn't get any action fromt he FCC.
Now a nother local clow was running about 1.5KW(yea KW!)
on and around 27MHz. He was causing severe TVI and when
the TV stations complained, the FCC showed up 2 days later.
Follow the money.
We had troubl ewith local cable TV company running a leaky system.
Thye ignored all complaints, and the FCC promised to get back with
the local ham club.
Yea, sure.
The cable company runs several CW carriers to set the system gain and
maintain EQ. On was around 52MHz. At my suggestion some of the local
hams started a CW net on 52MHz. Drove the AGC amps nuts. They had to
tighten thier system up to stay in business. At least the FCC now
requires
all cable comapies to monitor and log their leakage profile. The cable
companies found it a good way to catch those who steal cable.
They plot the leakage from every house in the system from a hour fly
over.
The FCC only gets invovlved when money is at risk.
This was under El Jeffe Clinton.
But a BB gun is much quiter...less likely to get the LEOs out in force.
Terry