Florida Ham Agrees to Penalty for Failure to Identify

If true, why doesn't the FCC seize their equipment to sell at auction and cancel their radio amateur license, or, at least cancel their radio amateur license.

There is no way you are the victim, if participating in the abuse.

Profanity, broadcasting, making noise, all that.

Do other countries radio amateurs do this abuse, or, only "ugly americans"?

The worst I have heard, that was not stateside was "Hola" "HOLA" "HO..OO..OO..LA"!

 

The most outrageous offendor is Canadian.

 

For an (r) on the end (a typo numb nuts) and I am bitching??? Kettle calling the fire black comes to mind. And when you are half blind and using a laptop keyboard I think I have done quite well.

 

For those who want to hear what illegal interference from 'grow lamps' for marihuana sounds like, take a look at this video, courtesy W1QS:

 

w0w.. and Canadians are reputed to be so polite, and have witty humor.

 

I am hardly characterizing Canadians--just describing one. His call is VE7KFM. Iin the US his many rants would be the basis for license revocation, and felony imprisonment. That is my opinion, yours may differ.

I am not starting a discussion here on this matter, just reporting a fact to someone who was not aware of it. I have no more to add other than there is ample evidence to support my statement on Youtube videos.

 

I didn't mean to detour from the thread.

I live near the U.S. Canada border.

I have only good experience.

I have heard some outrageous humor, especially about politicians, however it was all suitable for mixed company and at a coffee shop up over the border, and not on-the-air.

 

The FCC doesn't the authority to arbitrarily seize equipment.

Why don't they act? Clearly, they have other priorities.

Human nature the world round. There are plenty of malcontents on HF in other countries. One Italian ham is infamous.

 

I can be grateful, then, for what I haven't heard.

If this instance, of the thread starter, then we may be hearing more.

I mentioned this thread at the coffee shop this morning.

The other radio amateur present would be grateful, if there is more enforcement.

He owns a repeater.

He also said Montana Net on 80 meters has been getting deliberate interference and profanity.

Montana Net has been around for many years and is a listed net.

 

Many friends of mine are Canadian. If I had to generalize at all, I would say they aren't as suspicious and jaded as Americans. I alwys enjoy myself in Canada, and my favorite spot on earth is Moraine Lake, Banff. I am sure you know it

 

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With his newly created Tesla coils, the inventor soon discovered that he could transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they were tuned to resonate at the same frequency. When a coil is tuned to a signal of a particular frequency, it literally magnifies the incoming electrical energy through resonant action. By early 1895, Tesla was ready to transmit a signal 50 miles to West Point, New York... But in that same year, disaster struck. A building fire consumed Tesla's lab, destroying his work.

The timing could not have been worse. In England, a young Italian experimenter named Guglielmo Marconi had been hard at work building a device for wireless telegraphy. The young Marconi had taken out the first wireless telegraphy patent in England in 1896. His device had only a two-circuit system, which some said could not transmit "across a pond." Later Marconi set up long-distance demonstrations, using a Tesla oscillator to transmit the signals across the English Channel.

Tesla filed his own basic radio patent applications in 1897. They were granted in 1900. Marconi's first patent application in America, filed on November 10, 1900, was turned down. Marconi's revised applications over the next three years were repeatedly rejected because of the priority of Tesla and other inventors.

The Patent Office made the following comment in 1903:

Many of the claims are not patentable over Tesla patent numbers 645,576 and 649,621, of record, the amendment to overcome said references as well as Marconi's pretended ignorance of the nature of a "Tesla oscillator" being little short of absurd... the term "Tesla oscillator" has become a household word on both continents [Europe and North America].

But no patent is truly safe, as Tesla's career demonstrates. In 1900, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. began thriving in the stock markets—due primarily to Marconi's family connections with English aristocracy. British Marconi stock soared from $3 to $22 per share and the glamorous young Italian nobleman was internationally acclaimed. Both Edison and Andrew Carnegie invested in Marconi and Edison became a consulting engineer of American Marconi. Then, on December 12, 1901, Marconi for the first time transmitted and received signals across the Atlantic Ocean.

Otis Pond, an engineer then working for Tesla, said, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you." Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."

But Tesla's calm confidence was shattered in 1904, when the U.S. Patent Office suddenly and surprisingly reversed its previous decisions and gave Marconi a patent for the invention of radio. The reasons for this have never been fully explained, but the powerful financial backing for Marconi in the United States suggests one possible explanation.

Tesla was embroiled in other problems at the time, but when Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911, Tesla was furious. He sued the Marconi Company for infringement in 1915, but was in no financial condition to litigate a case against a major corporation. It wasn't until 1943—a few months after Tesla's death— that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tesla's radio patent number 645,576. The Court had a selfish reason for doing so. The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents in World War I. The Court simply avoided the action by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.

 

Until recently, the US was a 'first to invent' system. So irrespective of filing date, Tesla had priority in the US.

The 1943 decision stands. And answers the question.

Please credit this excerpt, many do not know where it comes from.

I often wonder about how history would have differed if Tesla hadnt lost his NYC lab....

73
Chip W1YW

 

I sympathise with your dilemma and am thank full we have no problems on that scale probably because we are a small area and everyone knows their area. Usually if anything like that was to happen local operators would aim to solve the problem by which ever means suited ,after all obvious means of rectification were exhausted like Ofcom etc.

 

You should have read the whole comment from KD2AZI. Made sense to me. There has to be a better way to lodge complaints so they can get the attention of the FCC in a way to correct what is wrong with the undisciplined activity on the ham bands.

He said: "Dialing away from illegal activity is analogous to failing to report a crime you witnessed."

Capiche?

 

So was it the bee in a bottle type of sound? if it is then my neighbour is gonna (sorry going) to get a visit.

I will blow him in if he does not give me any blow for nowt.