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theyre ignoring the noise emanated by the cell tower, not jamming it if anything, you can sic the FCC on power or telecom companies that emit too much interference to your ham stuff. That's one huge advantage of getting the license. you can literally make PG&E investigate a bad pole transformer and replace it at no cost to you
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ah, that’s cool. thanks! e: everything i know about signal interference I learned from that one scene in space balls.
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generally one cannot block a signal barring things like shielded cages etc. You can jam a signal and make it unintelligible; scream real loud so nobody can hear the whisper in the distance. But that falls off with inverse square law, and is also illegal.
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spankmeister posted:I got it if it makes you feel better. thank you in any case ham is a cool hobby, if i have undnerstood correctly hams are probably the guys who will be responsible for the communication infrastructure after something like a carrington event happens and any regular cabled network becomes fried
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Penisface posted:thank you lol if u wouldn't pay Jonny a gallon of everclear to talk to your loved ones
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Captain Foo posted:lol if u wouldn't pay Jonny a gallon of everclear to talk to your loved ones Further lol if Jonny and everclear aren't already your loved ones
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Captain Foo posted:Further lol if Jonny and everclear aren't already your loved ones even further lol at me for using your instead of you're yospos bithc
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Jonny 290 posted:theyre ignoring the noise emanated by the cell tower, not jamming it this is the only aspect of the hobby that makes it interesting to me, the status of spectrum as one of the most important intangible but finite resources about if it was somehow infinite the entire thing would seem incredibly pointless to take an interest in, like being a fan of fine cabling
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cubicsdr is another macOS thing for the cheapo dongles but I dunno if I yet have a real preference for it over gqrx or vice versa they both have their own goofiness
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Jonny 290 posted:theyre ignoring the noise emanated by the cell tower, not jamming it my fave FCC action from the last few years was some agents tracking down a noise source to a store in a strip mall. A fluorescent ballast made by GE was failing and spewing RF everywhere, and they very nicely told the owner 'either take the free replacement ballast or unplug it'. He told them to go gently caress themselves because he didn't notice anything wrong, and they slapped him with a $10k fine
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Jimmy Carter posted:my fave FCC action from the last few years was some agents tracking down a noise source to a store in a strip mall. A fluorescent ballast made by GE was failing and spewing RF everywhere, and they very nicely told the owner 'either take the free replacement ballast or unplug it'. good
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sending out an epirb signal doesn't sound like a very smart thing for my tv to do
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flakeloaf posted:sending out an epirb signal doesn't sound like a very smart thing for my tv to do i've been reading up on PLB's (same system) and you do need to be very very careful about it they use them pretty frequently here for backcountry Rocky Mountain poo poo (PLB's are registered to a person. EPIRBs are registered to a vessel)
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oh even better, you mean that guy's tv also said he was a boat? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43211-2004Oct18.html i mean, if you ran aground and kept going for 50 miles, yeah odds are good you're in some kind of distress e: oh apparently it was a civilian aircraft signal
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