Recently the FCC has been writing to the CEOs of electric utilities about
intereference experienced by individual amateurs and I believe last week I
saw a letter to some people about a baby monitor.

The letters are at http://www.arrl.org/news/enforcement_logs/

FWIW,
Tom, N3IJ

"Bob McConnell" wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:47:34 +0000 (UTC), "-=jd=-" wrote:

Dateline "rec.radio.amateur.homebrew", Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:55:22 GMT: As
it
appeared in message-ID# , "Bob
Lewis
\(AA4PB\)" appears to have written the following...

Now, he actually has fun frustrating the offending CB'er.

That's great. So now your friend has become a part of the problem
instead of part of the solution. That makes him no better than the guy
he's compaining about.

Actually, quite the opposite. None of the neighbors could get any
response
from the FCC. The offending CB'er was coming over the TV's and radios in
the neighborhood.


Commercial TV and radio receivers are notoriously susceptible to
strong signals well outside of their frequency range. The
manufacturers have taken too many shortcuts to provide decent
selectivity. So the FCC doesn't pay much attention to those
complaints.

But as soon as the hams in the area had a problem, they should have
been notifying the FCC. At that point, your neighbor was interfering
with a licensed service and they do pay attention to that. Admitedly,
their attention has been sporadic in the past, but in the last few
years they have gotten much more serious about tracking down operators
that are causing harmful interference, even if they are licensed. If
the event you described happened recently, there may have been a
better way. Keep that in mind if he gets back on the air.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP