Thursday, Sep 01, 2005 at 14:16
More interferance came into my HF sets from those bloody asians yabbering in their unintelligent language than any form of Australian interference. Thier noise wipes out reception on most HF and Ham channells and makes them unusable at times in the NT and North Queensland.
A little playing around with a couple of HF sets will not make a difference compared to the crap that our northern neighbours generate.
I say go for it and play around with the sets. Make em do what you can. After all that is what the ametuer licence is designed for. Experimentation.
The ACA or any other authority will not care. They dont persue anyone that is doing more than interfereing with someones telly. And it usually takes about 100 complaints for them to send a van with a few antennas on top to try and solve the problem.
The old days of guys tracking down CBers with noisy linears that buzz and crackle in the 70's have long gone. The 70s were great. Buy a linear amp to transmit to Uranus, try and listen for a response but none heard because no one else had a linear that could transmit a signal back to you. Heaps could hear you but none could get back so you thought that the linear did not work. Put it in the
classifieds after a few weeks and pi$$ it off..
You can get almost any program, programming leads, and mod advice of the web now. That is why the emergency
services have gone digital in Aus. Too many kids able to transmit on their frequencies. Anyone with a grade 6 education can do it.
Me I prefer satphones for all of my vehicles. No noisy asians and ametuer radio operators who think that they are god of the airwaves to deal with.
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