[ARC5] On Hacking and TVI

[mcenfalz at humboldt1.com]

I suppose most of the bad rep Hams sometimes have is a leftover racial
memory from the 50's TVI.

Today, Consumer Electronics and $$ are exacting their revenge. The
stickers all say "must accept interference" but no one thinks about us
having to accept harmful interference from them.........

We have a local fellow who passes traffic for trans-pacific boaters, but
he lives in a relatively quiet RF location. Me - not a chance. Classic
urban RF nightmare: Powerlines, plasma screens, computers, porch lights,
dimmers. Someone calls SOS; I'll never hear them.

I wonder how other Services deal w/all the RF noise? Massive DSP on the
input side?

73 DE JIM K6FWT