Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably
didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment.



FCC guys are no fun at all with TV viewers breathin' down his neck
bitching up a storm....

FCC showed up at my house to inspect the 1500 watt ham station from a
neighbor's complaint. We went through the motions on the Collins S-line
I was running at the time, the finest equipment of the day. After
coffee and donuts (Hey! He's a cop..of sorts!) I invited the FCC guy to
the neighbor's house so he could take Polaroids of the complainant's
television antenna, a pair of 99c rabbit ears duct taped to a branch of
the oak tree over her porch with several pieces of twinlead duct taped
together to reach the 13" Korean PoS $79 TV she watched...when she
could.

FCC sent her a letter and put it in with the TVI handbook they publish
for Crap TV owners explaining how she needed to get a real TV antenna or
connect to the cable system to solve her problem.

Now told her TV, not my $8000 ham station, was at fault, she decided to
shoot at me with a .22 pistol that barely missed me.

Her next visit was from the Charleston County Sheriff. They dug the
bullet out of my wall for evidence and charged her with Attempted Murder
and a couple of concealed weapons charges. Her brother came and emptied
her stuff out of the house so I guess she wasn't coming back and we
never saw her again.

I had my neighborhood kids climb up and take down the problem antenna so
some other idiot with a pistol didn't hook it to HIS TV.....

If you want to be responsible for every blown light bulb, home appliance
and TV cable outage....erect a 60' tower in your yard with a big ham
radio antenna on it. You don't need a license or transmitter......

"Don't **** me off or I'll turn that antenna around and point it at
YOU!"....the ray gun effect.

Everybody loves ham radio right after a hurricane when the phones are
dead and they can't call anyone....