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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: outhouse radio on November 16, 2009, 0348 UTC
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ENFORCEMENT: IRMA FRAUSTO HAS COMPANY IN THE UK
You probably remember the story of Irma Frausto of Compton, California that we reported on a few weeks ago. Her amplified TV antenna allegedly self-oscillated on 840 MHz and caused interfere to a cell site. The FCC sent her a Citation even though there was nothing in the Commission's write up to suggest that she knew about the self-oscillations or had the wherewithal to eliminate them.
Well now Irma has company. A 12 year old schoolboy in Great Britain by the name of Nickie Chamberlain has been busted because his self- oscillating TV antenna was interfering with air traffic over his home in Linslade, Beds in the UK. The Ofcom engineer ordered the father to dispose of the aerial immediately.
Air traffic controllers first noticed the communication problems on the flight path into London Luton Airport on October 6th .According to Ofcom, pilots coming into land at the airport were loosing contact with the control tower because the faulty antenna preamp was transmitting on the same frequency as the aircraft radios. You can read more at (CGC, Telegraph.com)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6447394/Schoolboys-bedroom-raided-after-TV-aerial-interferes-with-air-traffic-control.html
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Your tax dollars at work. I'm proud to say, as a former OSHA safety inspector, that the Department of Labor agencies (including OSHA, wage and hour, etc.), seldom if ever stooped to the low level of the FCC's routine disregard for, oh, trivial matters like actual evidence.