[Milsurplus] The Mighty FCC Man-Trackers

[Peter Gottlieb]

  Sounds almost as bad as CODAR  http://www.codar.com/intro_hf_radar.shtml

There is one in NJ that drove me nuts in NY.  I tracked it down to a city then 
building, but what to do then?  I had no idea at the time exactly what it was, 
thought it was some form of interference and not intentional.

That the FCC even allows such a device, which takes out chunks of the HF band 
and makes conversation impossible, blows my mind.

Maybe not, they allow BPL.

Peter



On 9/14/2010 7:37 PM, David Stinson wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Gottlieb<nerd at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "More FCC Foolishness"
>>
>>   Word is that the FCC has a vast network of very advanced automated DF stations
>> accessed over a secure broadband network.
>> If they're looking for you, they can find you.
> Maybe, but it also depends on the competance
> and "give a darn" of the operators.
>
> Let me tell ya a story from a couple of years ago.
> Here in the Dallas area, we had a very powerful interfering
> single that would sweep across tens of mHz of the
> Hi-VHF band.  It swept through every 12 seconds
> and would just "pop" the squelch on my user's radios.
> Drove them nuts.
> It was also hitting ham repeaters, fire departments
> and sheriff radios over a large area and freq spread.
> I assembled a scanner, an adjustable attenuator and
> a hand-held beam antenna.  I drove all over the place
> and the best I could do with my crude gear
> and this short "pip" of a signal,
> was to locate it south of downtown Dallas.
>
> I wrote to Riley, and told him that, with their advanced
> gear and trained people, they could find this thing,
> and I needed some help.
> He had to give a "kick" to the field hands
> a couple of times to get them to look;
> they acted like it was a real pain to do their job.
> After a few days, they called me.
> With their super-duper advanced gear and trained people,
> they told me:
>
>       "The best we can do is locate it
>        south of downtown Dallas..."
>
> True story, guys.
> A group of hams eventually found it:
> a parasitic in a powerful transmitter
> on a tall tower south of Dallas.
>
> IMHO, the FCC will expend effort to find you
> if they can expect to collect a big fine,
> or if the guy doing the looking
> can bring in your bloody scalp
> for a carrer "gold star."
> Otherwise, I don't think they try very hard.
>
> 73 Dave S.
>
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