This is a funny story from the Broadcast Engineering mail list...
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Castro
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:31 PM
To: Broadcast Radio Technical Forum
Subject: Re: [RT] Re: Local interference issues and lawyers
We had a case many years ago here in Santa Rosa where an FM station moved
its transmitter and a neighbor, who was a wealthy doctor, started
complaining of major TV interference on all channels, and he demanded that
the station stop transmitting and go away. The station owner could see that
doctor's TV antenna was in very poor condition, and he offered to replace it
for free, the was turned down. The doctor complained bitterly and regularly
to the FCC until an inspector finally came out. The inspector pronounced
the FM station clean, but he could see some other source of local
interference in the area on his spectrum analyzer. Turns out it was the
doctor's Radio Shack pre-amp on his broken-down antenna that had gone into
self-oscillation and was cleaning out the whole neighborhood!
By this time, the FCC had such a craw-full of the doctor that they issued
him an NAL for causing interference.
Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC
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