>Q For you folk in the quiet locations, enjoy and protect! It's a losing battle. You can't stop the imported appliance tsunami that has been going on for years, or consumers buying them and bringing them home and using them. You can run around and try, good luck with that, and invest hours and days of your ham hobby time on that instead of what is enjoyable with your remaining years, and maybe have a few successes, out of many slammed doors, but for every success there will be 10 more gadgets coming to a house near you and getting fired up. That ship has sailed--the FCC in the U.S. has washed their hands pretty much, similar to their abandonment of CB enforcement. Small government and unfettered commerce have won and to be clear, I am not generally opposed to small gov't and commerce, but in this case hams took a hit and that's life.
It pays to focus on what you CAN control, which is the stuff on your property, and RF coming on to your property. Unless you are not tied to a job and can move (the only really effective solution) you have to break out the wallet and spend some doe re mi on a pair of Pixel Loop antennas and one of the DX Engineering phasing boxes. If you have room for anything bigger and farther apart like Flags, Pennants, beverages and so on, you are probably already in the sticks and don't have as much of a problem. 73 Rob K5UJ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband