"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Bobsprit" wrote in message

Bart, do you think hams will become angry at you for encouraging an ass
such
as me to pollute their airwaves?
Do you think I'm suddenly am going to become a considerate, nice guy
just
because I'm broadcasting on amateur radio?

I'm not Bart, but I'll answer those questions for you. First, one does
not
"broadcast" on amateur bands. One communicates with others. Second, you
will be a "considerate, nice guy" on the ham bands, or you'll find one of
two things will occur: 1) no one will talk to you and you'll be yelling
at
dead air, or 2) someone--a do-gooder, perhaps--will attempt to help you
improve your on-the-air courtesy to the point you'll be an acceptable
communicator. Unlike 11M, where almost no one actually communicates any
more, the ham bands are self-policed and fools and miscreants aren't
suffered gladly. IF you choose to be a jerk on ham radio, you'll discover
just how lonely it can get.

Not if I can find other jerks. Just look at what goes on in this newsgroup.


Why do people promote their own interests and hobbies to others and then
complain when the hobby/interest becomes over run or degraded?

This hasn't been a problem for amateur radio. Jerks either go away
eventually, or they convert. In some cases they get turned over to the
FCC
for prosecution if they create enough trouble. One repeater group in this
area has transceiver-printing equipment, which can identify any individual
radio by its transmitter waveform characteristics and idiosyncracies.

This type of monitoring is very easy to circumvent. I can easily change the
risetime and overshoot of the key-on characteristics of my rig by using a
modified circuit for paddle keys or by simply placing the end of the antenna
in a bucket of saline (secondary dielectric moding). The modulation is
easily changed by running into a cheapo audio equalizer. The more complex
analyses such as instantaneous AM-PM conversion or cycle to cycle variation
can be overcome by such methods as varying the regulator voltage on the
transmit section or by changing the order, type or phase margin of the
transmitter phase locked loop. In other words, with every transmission it
will appear as a different transmitter.

Your simplistic fox hunting techniques are also very easy to evade. An
amplitude detecting direction finder is useless for short transmissions of
varying amplitude. Your silly phase modulated techniques are also useless. I
can easily overcome them with an asynchronous QAM subcarrier.

The FCC does not have the time or resources to catch me. I will prevail.

RB, Capt ASA, K7UGA



Using
this equipment and other means they have turned several idiots over to the
FCC, for which fines totalling in excess of $100,000 have been levied.
Moral of the story: don't screw with hams. They can be aggressive in
putting your butt in a sling. You may get away with crap on 11M, but not
on
the ham bands.

Max