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....

"Larry" wrote in message
...
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....



Wow... you live in a great neighborhood!


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Larry wrote:
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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......

snip

Right you are, Larry! I had a 65'crank up tower with a very large
4-element cubical for 20 and 15 meters mounted on it and I used to get
complaints all the time, even when I COULD NOT have been causing the
problem. While I was away to the University at Santa Barbara in 1975,
living in the dorms, my dad had an irate neighbor storm over and
*insist* that my ham station was wiping out his TV. My dad told the guy
that this was impossible as I was living over 100 miles away and
couldn't be operating the station if I wanted to! He even invited the
guy in to see for himself that the station was unoccupied. Still, he was
convinced that the interference on his TV just *had* to be my fault!

73's,
Alan Gomes (W6AWG)

Alan Gomes wrote in
:

Larry wrote:
snip
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......

snip

Right you are, Larry! I had a 65'crank up tower with a very large
4-element cubical for 20 and 15 meters mounted on it and I used to get
complaints all the time, even when I COULD NOT have been causing the
problem. While I was away to the University at Santa Barbara in 1975,
living in the dorms, my dad had an irate neighbor storm over and
*insist* that my ham station was wiping out his TV. My dad told the
guy that this was impossible as I was living over 100 miles away and
couldn't be operating the station if I wanted to! He even invited the
guy in to see for himself that the station was unoccupied. Still, he
was convinced that the interference on his TV just *had* to be my
fault!

73's,
Alan Gomes (W6AWG)


I got an FCC complaint notice in the mid 1960's I had to respond to
about consistent TVI complaints at my home in Charleston.
Unfortunately, for them, I was aboard USS Everglades (AD-24) in NAPLES,
ITALY where the ship was servicing the 6th Fleet!

I fired off a Navy speedletter, signed by my captain, to the FCC as
evidence I was too far away to reach the power switch and asked the FCC
engineers to go by my house to make SURE the coax cable from the
antennas was STILL laying in the lawn where I left them upon
deployment....

Three weeks later, I got a letter from the Savannah, GA, FCC engineer,
Mr Sheehan, thanking me for my Navy service and saying, yes, my cables
were in the yard where I left them. He'd gone by my house to see if it
were ok....(c;

Case dismissed....

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:07:30 +0000, Larry wrote:

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.


When I lived in Riverside, I had a woman come to the house bitching
about my Ham station. Told me that I had "ruined" her TV, had to call
a repairman who was at the house now.

I volunteered to go to her house NOW and talk with the TV guy. On the
way over to her house she told me that she could hear me talking on
her TV.

When we got there the TV guy was there and you could hear someone
talking on her TV, "Breaker, breaker, this is the rubber duck......."
I asked her how it could be ME talking on her TV when I was RIGHT
HERE? Then asked the TV guy about ruining her TV. He laughed and said,
"it just needed degaussing".

I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived
on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next
time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out
to the FCC.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:38:36 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:07:30 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
m:

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.


When I lived in Riverside, I had a woman come to the house bitching
about my Ham station. Told me that I had "ruined" her TV, had to call
a repairman who was at the house now.

I volunteered to go to her house NOW and talk with the TV guy. On the
way over to her house she told me that she could hear me talking on
her TV.

When we got there the TV guy was there and you could hear someone
talking on her TV, "Breaker, breaker, this is the rubber duck......."
I asked her how it could be ME talking on her TV when I was RIGHT
HERE? Then asked the TV guy about ruining her TV. He laughed and said,
"it just needed degaussing".

I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived
on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next
time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out
to the FCC.


It would be quicker to just pin his coax.

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived
on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next
time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out
to the FCC.



FCC rules for CB USED to say the antenna height maximum was "20 ft above
the existing structure", to leave room for a 5/8 wave vertical that was
popular at the time.

A favorite ham trick in SC was to wait for them to get the 270' tower with
stacked 5-element beams optimum spaced erected and on-the-air.....then rat
them out to the FCC who would tell them they had 30 days to take it all
down, "or else". As soon as the tower was laying in the yard, we'd go over
and offer him a couple of hundred dollars to take it off his hands, seeing
as how he couldn't put it up any more......(c;]

We got some really nice towers that way....cheap!