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Yes Mike <br>
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You can see why I get a little angry when people (whether it be, in
just tounge and cheek or not) like to make sweeping statements about
old legislation without first doing a little research.<br>
Hey I'm no prude but I am sick and tired of this crap chinese sh*t
coming into the country with no control over it and we are left picking
up the pieces. <br>
<br>
Another rant will be the battle we have coming up losing the ATV
frequencies to freeview with no compensation in sight. By compensation
I mean another freq or a sat freq on freeview offered in its place.<br>
Meanwhile MED staff have another coffee and sit around refreshing
themselves with new regulations...........Oh and they go after a person
who puts a video of a high powered Linear he built on youtube showing a
"lightning bolt" (long spark) being drawn off the aerial.<br>
At least he had the technical knowledge to build one from scratch,
which is more than some amateurs these days could muster.<br>
<br>
Victimless crime (Judges notes from the day) Nice catch MED Staff and
nice press release worded with the appropriate spin to suit. But in the
meantime another 3 radios were sold on trade me with not a care what
freq and whether it has a type approval for NZ. Having the potential to
cause grief on emergency channels.<br>
<br>
PS No I am not Mr Potter just a P*sed off Amateur radio operator
moaning about the MED's lack of interest.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Steve Austin.<br>
<br>
Mike Barnes (ZL3TMB) wrote:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">Hi Steve</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">Shame the law is guilty till
proven innocent, in this case............... This must have slipped
through when we got free Ham licences. </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">I now see why MED does sweet
F.A There are that many low powered and not so low powered devices
coming into NZ. Parts of the UHF ham band is now</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">useless. If MED would at
least do their job. The two UHF repeaters in Chch would not be jammed
open with remote crud...... Masked with ctcss but not a real solution.</span></font></div>
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size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">End rant.......</span></font></div>
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size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010"></span></font><font
color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010"></span></font><font
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"
size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">Cheers</span></font></div>
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size="2"><span class="818323107-30052010">Mike </span></font></div>
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color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> " </font></span>If you are in
posession of the apparatus you Bob are presumed to have used it under
current legislation. Whether you pressed the PTT button or not.<br>
That includes Tait radios programmed to Police and Fire or any other
radio transmitter. The accused now has to prove they did not use the
radio for the court system NOT the MED to prove you did.<br>
A small change to the law that most people do not realise has been
passed a while ago in legislation.<br>
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<br>
Regards<br>
Steve Austin<br>
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