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- From: hovnania@iftccu.ca.boeing.com (Paul Hovnanian)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:39:04 GMT
- Subject: Re: Illegal Radar Jammers -- Legal for a ham?
- Message-ID: <4700026@iftccu.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
- Path: sparky!uunet!bcstec!iftccu!hovnania
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- References: <1993Jan20.222254.16041@microware.com>
- Lines: 41
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- >While, however, our license grants us the ability to transmit within these
- >frequency bands, it does not allow us to cause malicious, intentional
- >interference with other services, such as shortwave stations, with which
- >we share the 40 meter (7 MHz) band. Similarly, it would be completely
- >illegal for a ham to intentionally jam traffic radar. The fine for doing
- >so would probably be even more severe than simply jamming with no license,
- >as hams KNOW as part of their licensing examinations that malicious, inten-
- >tional interference is a BIG no-no.
- >
- >Of course, if you were to accidentally jam radar while legally using the
- >10 GHz band, that would probably be OK in that you would be using the band
- >for a legitimate purpose, and the license does allow you to do so.
- >
- >Hope I was of some help.
- >
- >73,
- >
- >Scott NF3I Amateur Radio Extra Class Operator
- >
- >----------
- Question: What are the legal consequenses of using a PASSIVE ECM system?
- By this, I mean a device capable of modulating a reflection without
- transmitting any signal itself. Traffic law-wise I would guess that the
- interference with a police officer conducting his duties would be viewed
- in the same light as a transmitter, but what about the federal regs?
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