You know digital signals go through the alternate universe. The one full of unicorns and fairy dust.
I feel ripped off!!! I was not trained in RDF when I received my license.Where do you get this training??? j/k
All you gotta do is go look at www.fcc.gov/eb. You will have to browse thru a huge number of NAL's, warning letters, and other actions. There are regular instances of CBers being hit with $11,000 fines for interference, talking out of band, using uncertified equipment (so-called "10 Meter" radios or ham radios without license [on CB or on unauthorized frequencies] ). They get nailed for using "linear amps", too. Now it isn't an everyday thing..........BUT it does happen on a regular basis, and enough that if it happens to YOU, it becomes a game-changer. It's one thing to wink at others that happen to get hit, but quite another when it is YOU that has been ordered to submit certified check to the Federal Treasury. When it does happen, you oughta hear 'em beg ("Bu-bu-bu-bu-but Mr. FCC man, I ain't GOT $11,000!!!!!) Sometimes you can get it reduced, sometimes not. Just because you haven't heard about people getting nailed, it doesn't mean it doesn't happen because it DOES! Why not call FCC and ASK 'em if there's a "free ride" for CBers? They'll get YOU, broadcast stations, commercial operators, and ME, too if we break the law---mostly it happens because of complaints of interference. Like the "10 Meter" thing. CBers/truckers were migrating in droves onto the 10 Meter ham band, and it drew attention because voice is not permitted on the lower end of 10M. It stood out like a sore thumb, and the rightful users of the band raised H*ll----AND went out and began tracking the truckers who were gabbing on 28.085 AM. They then turned them in, copying down their truck #, date, time, direction of travel and giving it to FCC's Special Counsel for Amateur Enforcement. The company then received a WARNING letter that such operation must cease at once or face fines. Going up there is not a good idea. GF
A great place to start reading is http://www.homingin.com - I met Joe some years ago at Dayton. Really awesome guy. Transmitter hunts are great fun... I was in several when I was living in California.
You mean training is not provided and I have to train myself???? The only RDF'ing I've done on amateur radio is at the local hamfest's bunny hunt,though I've tracked down many "undesirables" on CB/freeband.
We had this "bird" that showed up on 28.610 AM one time. He was splattering all over the place with his super-duper, clipped, snipped, over 'modged' "10 Meter" radio. He started broadcasting (on AM) and holding the key down on his "leenyer" so he could "show them hams whut a real 'reddio' was! (Or so he said). We didn't respond to him, but activated a foxhunt on a frequency we knew he wasn't likely to know of. We quietly DF'ed him to the corner of a certain street. At one point, he proudly said (to anyone who was listening) that "them stupid hams wuzzn't smart enough to "ketch" him; there was 'no way' to find him!! Wanna bet? So I drove up to the corner of his street where his big ole groundplane was a-hanging ####eyed on the house, and stopped at a light. By this time, you could hear the amplifier fan humming, voices in the background and my meter was pegged out---with my antenna disconnected! "OH *****"!!!!" And CLICK! The AM carrier went away! He must have spotted the car with the multiple antennas sitting right outside his door! We never heard him on 10 Meters again! GF
That is your side of the story and I'm not saying it is not accurate. But did anyone ever tell him what he was doing and give him a chance to stop? Maybe the sight of your car was that warning? :smt102 I can't believe you all went to that much trouble and didn't turn him in, or at least have a conversation with him.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. The guy made the statement that "them hammies ain't smart enough to 'ketch' me", and we proved the point. Once he saw the car with all the antennas, he was NEVER heard again while WE had the goods on him just in case. He knew(?) he was caught, or his guilt caught up with him at the sight of a car with the antennas. (AAAAK! IT'S THE FCC!!!!!! Another fella, we literally snuck up on him while he was sitting in his Toyota truck!!!!! Talk about a "deer-in-the-headlights" look! We turned him in because of the threats and cussings-out, + filthly language we'd endured from this guy. He'd even talked dirty about one fella's wife, and we had to talk hard to keep the offended guy from going to his A ** **. He was a big, burly truck driver, BTW. That little pipsqueak didn't WANT that driver to git hold of him! LOL! He'd a-pinched his head off if we hadn't talked him out of really doing him harm. So he got turned in. Fined, etc. Don't know what happened after that!
