[BC] Wisconsin family fears village will take down son's Ham radio tower

[Lotus Engineering]

Sometimes the "RFI" problem is not RFI at all.  Several years ago in Tucson, after exhaustive volunteer technical efforts, FCC visits and a local ham selling his amplifiers, the lawsuits continued from one particular neighbor.  Fortunately the courts found in favor of the ham. The harassment continued until the ham finally gave up and moved away.  A later discussion with another neighbor discovered that the problem wasn't interference at all but anti Semitism on the part of the complainer.  Cost the ham big bucks defending himself, our volunteers hours of work, and the community a great ham when he moved away.
Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV

> -----Original Message-----
>  [mailto:broadcast-
> bounces at radiolists.net] From: Mike McCarthy
> Ham radio tower
> 
> Yes and no.  Part 97 has had a love/hate relationship with Part 15. I
> don't have the Part 97 citation to refer, but the FCC has long stood
> that
> the radio amateur must exhaust all reasonable means to correct TVI
> created
> by the Part 97 station.  HOWEVER, if the radio amateur can proove their
> emissions are within the permitted limits, they have met the rules and
> the
> responsability lay with the equipment owner suffering the interference.
> Typically a spectrum analyzer was/is used to make this point.
> 
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