You are right,John, but only to a point. This is a weapon which can be
used against the amateur in a hostile action such as zoning regulations.
But it is a legal weapon on our side as well. How would any of us like to
get this phone call? "My wife and I lived next to you for 18 years, hated
every moment looking at your antennas, and now she has cancer, and it's all
your fault. I am suing you and Yaesu and Hy-Gain all together!" In this
society with shyster lawyers everywhere, perhaps the FCC has done us a long
term favor. I am on K3ZO's side on this one.
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>I don't imagine for a moment that the FCC has the manpower to go after any
>of us without prompting, except perhaps in the most blatant cases. The real
>problem is that the new regulations will provide one more wonderful weapon
>with which local governments and the attornies of ignorant non-amateur
>neighbors can bash us. Don't assume for one moment that they will have to
>prove us guilty. To a non-technical judge or jury, addressed by equally
>non-technical but very smooth lawyers, we will have to prove - at VAST
>expense - that we are innocent. That's why I feel so bitter at the idiot,
>meddling amateurs who so thoughtlessly heaped this mess upon us. They HAD
>to be scientists - no engineer would have done it!!
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>John, NT5C.
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