Couple of side stories.
I had had some problems with TV interference sometime back and had an old CB downstairs. So I brought it up so I could connect to my amateur antenna(s) and listen around. Turns out it was a CBer up the street more than a mile that was jackin up my TV
Now, this was in the early days of analog cellular, and I had an amateur VHF transceiver, which had a "secret menu" you could invoke, and listen up on the 800mhz cell freqs. This is before Congress made that illegal, which is another story
Anyhow I was pokin around one Saturday and here's a phone conversation about picking up "some lids" for a party and I thought "this is JUST too good to lose." I could not decide what else to do so I picked up the CB laying there and keyed the mike, rebroadcasting the cell conversation over channel 8--where some local kids hung out. Turns out one of the girls on there KNEW WHO IT WAS looking for the "lids"!!!
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The above kids called themselves the "channel 8 gang" and I guess maybe they did little harm. Kids, 4x4's drinking, parties. At the time I had the "skud missile" a 78 Ford LTD II with a HUGE home built amateur antenna and an Icom 751A on a home made mount in the center console. It was a fairly large radio to go mobile with.
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Anyhow, I was parked in a local lot eating a burger, and listening to "the bunch" on 75 meters, and I see some of the "channel 8 gang" over behind me with a couple of rigs and some kids, and here comes one of them up to the car. He asked me "do I work for the FCC??" LOLOL
Yeh, right. I'm FCC and driving a beater 10 year old Ford with the vinyl roof peeled off
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More on the guy causing interference. As I said, I'd dragged a CB upstairs trying to figure out what was jacking my TV and had id'd the house where this was coming from. One night I was screwin around and the TV starts acting up so I went into the "radio shack" and there he was. I had (still have) a little military amplifier that will output an honest 900W all the way from 2--30 mhz. So I just loaded that girl up and keyed 'er down for about 30 seconds. Things got MIGHTY quiet for quite awhile. This guy was only 1--1 1/2 miles or so away, so it must have really knocked his receiver on it's ***
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Military Delcon T-210. Uses 3 - 4CX-150 or 250B tubes, vacuum tuning capacitors. Not very many built
