"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Phil Kane wrote:

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:11:26 GMT, King Zulu wrote:


I begin to wonder if current FCC people realize that it has
been 17 years or more since the FCC was first going to fix the problem.


Gone are the "good old days" when the FCC could get a court order
and the US Marshals to enforce same "just for the asking". Neither
the courts nor the Justice Department are interested in doing that
anymore where the sole issue is violation of FCC Rules without
anything else, such as national security or criminal activities
involved..... but that doesn't mean that they won't whenever they
so desire.

The present Enforcement Bureau people are used to working problems
out by exchange of correspondence and lawyer-to-lawyer however long
that takes, rather than getting a task force together with raid
jackets and bolt cutters and taking care of business.

But hasn't enough time passed for resolution of this problem even done
that way, Phil? Here is a person in clear violation of many rules, and
also in violation of criminal statutes too, and yet they must be
powerless to do anything.

Or IS the fact that the League has it's own broadcasts a nasty sticking
point?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Probably a combination of both Mike.
The only thing that MAN has going for him
is that he lives way up in the boonies of Maine.
If he were located in a more 'urban populated' area
it's a guess someone would have probably either cut 5'
sections out of his coax, or took a power saw
cutting wheel to the base of his antenna tower at
3:00 AM a long time ago. (Not that I am condoning or
suggesting any such activity by anyone mind you. I do
not in fact!) Just that for the most part I have observed
that ham QRM'ers and people like CB'er's who cause TVI
located in the more densely populated suburban areas seem to have
their neighbors find the source of the problem and
take 'corrective measures' rather sooner than the FCC does!