Ham Radio

Tailgate Sale

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The battle against malicious interference.

Things are not getting better.

What can you do when someone comes in and takes over the repeater with profanity, music and obnoxious comentary?

Give up? Go to a different mode? Sell your gear? Call the FCC?

Right. deaf_ear.gov

They only listen to private conversations.

What are the driving forces?

Money, love, hate, fear - are there others?

The offender probably has a grudge and no respect for the law.

The FCC is so busy that it does not do anything.

You do not have enough money to get their attention. Love ? That will not work unless you know someone. Hate ? They do not care, go ahead and hate them and see where it gets you. Fear - now that is the ticket. Call your congressman. They will pay attention to a congressman. Now he may not have much power, but they are in it for the long haul and they want all the friends they can get in congress. He may last a long time and who knows how much power he will gain.

The abuser gets his jollies by interfering with others.

If he can not interfere, he probably would go away.

One solution would be to install a reverse autopatch.

Registered users could phone in to the patch and transmit on the patch and listen on their receiver.

The patch should take priorty, and any RF would be locked out.

This would shut off the abuser.

The patch should accept conference calls,

so several users could phone in at the same time.

Perhaps a call back feature.

The patch should have vox.

Should be able to drop the patch with a tone but retain the phone link.

VOX would bring it back up.

The patch would transmit only.

Cell phones are better with simplex.

Need an anti-trip circuit.

Need more thoughts, pro and con.

Or just give up.

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