[MRCA] CODAR

[Peter Gottlieb]

We had CODAR wiping out the Civil Air Patrol HF frequencies for many 
months, and those frequencies were NTIA assigned for official USAF 
business.  That didn't stop them.  I DF'ed the blasted thing to a town 
in NJ before being told to "back down" as it was the OTH RADAR based on 
Cape Cod (even though I knew for absolute certain it was not).  But, 
orders are orders and I dropped it.  The sweeps moved somewhere else not 
long after that.

If you are an individual and make interference they come down on you 
like a ton of boatanchors but if you are a corporation they do nothing 
at all.  This seems to be the case no matter the administration in power.

I guess money trumps everything else.



On 7/21/2011 12:32 PM, Dennis wrote:
> You all miss the point.
> Codar WAS NOT allowed.
> It was not authorized to operate on the 60mtr band at all. Stop to think for a
> minute. We SHARE the 60mtr band with a number of government&  civilian entities
> which includes foreign embassies, maritime mobile etc.
>
> What really aggravates me is that it should have simply taken a report to the
> FCC that the thing was operating,&  their field engineers should have taken up
> the ball from there. It should have been the FCC that verified what was being
> operated, by whom, on what freq, etc. Not the civilian populous. That's what
> they have field engineers for.
>
>   As it was, it took a one year effort by hams who were forced to prove the
> source of the interference, who was transmitting it, etc. After a great deal of
> effort to locate the source, they had to record the CODAR system, then while
> recording have the University momentarily shut their system down, to verify that
> it was indeed their system causing the interference.
>
> This could have all been done by the FCC in a few minutes! But currently, all
> the FCC can do is figure out what part of the spectrum they put up for sale
> next.
>
>
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