From: galen@picea.CFNR.ColoState.EDU (Galen Watts)
Subject: Re: Power, signal surges in home...
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In article <1993Apr26.045628.5617@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>
>: Listen to the interference.  If you hear voices clearly, it almost
>: certainly ISN'T ham radio, and might well be CB.  If you can record a
>: bit of it, you could take the tape over to a local ham operator's house
>: and ask him for his opinion of what you're hearing.  Most communities
>
>You cannot do that legally. 

Why can't he record it legally?  It may not be admissable in court, but
recording for personal use is legal.  If he wants to play it for his ham
friend, that's legal too, as long as he doesn't charge admission.

>Unfortunately, most consumer equipment is succeptable - it is all poorly
>designed.

Here, Here!
>
>: (BTW: hams are ALLOWED amplifiers; CB isn't.  "illegal ham amplifier"
>: doesn't compute.)
>
>It does, but not for a mobile radio. There are very few mobile rigs that
>could power a 1500 watt amplifier.
>Bill

It doesn't actually have to be 1500 watts at 100 feet.  I've heard radio
transmissions from concert security over guitar amps with no guitar plugged
in, and security uses radios transmitting 2-5 watts into a rubber duck antenna,
which acts more like a dummy load than an antenna.

Hey Bill, where were you three weeks ago when all this stuff was posted
and dealt with?

Galen Watts, KF0YJ