[BC]a question for the CFR experts

JYRussell@academicplanet.com jyrussell
Sat Dec 31 20:26:41 CST 2005


Well, that's what I was asking.  Maybe I was mixing two or three sets of 
rules together, but somehow I got the idea that if a radio station operator 
was knowingly stomping all over another station's coverage.... it was a 
violation of the rules.

   F'rinstance... our little 10kw FM was pulling in QSL's pretty regularly 
from several towns just shy of Denver.  We're transmitting in North Texas! 
We also got reports from New Mexico... then Missouri (huh?!?)... and 
Kansas??

   When it's a late-nighter telling me all about his souped-up SuperTunerIII 
with 115dB gain super-brand Yagi at 300' agl... OK, that I can kinda see. 
He's looking for me.  I can't help that.   But when it's an average joe 
telling me that his favorite local station is being hashed up or replaced by 
mine... I gotta wonder what's up.   So we do all the homework, check out all 
we can at home and find it all clean and within spec... gotta be ducting, I 
suppose.  Nothing we're doing should be causing harmful interference to 
anybody else.....
   I can only prove I am not doing anything intentionally to cause my signal 
to drop in on top of somebody else...

  Maybe it's a hold over from some other radio service, or maybe I'm reading 
the rules to literally when they say
"harmful radiation"... or "intentional interference"...
Jason
>
> I think so, IMHO.  What issue is there to cover?
>
> -dan in lansing



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