On May 27, 7:53 am, N2EY wrote:
On May 25, 10:08 pm, K HB wrote:

Amateur radio operator charged

Not just charged. He was found guilty, and fined almost $2000, plus
the equipment.

What I found most interesting was this:

For the purposes of section 113, any
person who erects, constructs,
establishes, maintains, or is in
possession of any radio transmitter is
presumed to have used the radio transmitter.
In this case, Mr Potter was
found in possession of radio transmitting
equipment that was capable of
operating at a significantly higher power
than the Amateur Radio Operators
General Licence allows.

They didn't have to prove he used it, just that he had it.

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

It's part of the spectrum between the non-type accepted equipment sold
at truck stops, and his amp. And since they did have proof, I'm cool
with that. I suppose that he could have faked the meter reading, but
then I'd also expect that he could show the method in which he faked
it. Either way, he's really not that clever a person.

This reminds me a bit of those guys that took their sports cars out on
the freeway with a video camera looking out the front window, showing
them cruising at 160 miles per hour or so. And that was the evidence
at their arrest hearing.

It's also why I'll never understand the criminal mind. In addition to
whatever thrill this guy got by operating well past the legal power
limit, he apparently has an equal need to provide the evidence against
himself to the world.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -