re power signal surges in home in article apr 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 watt amplifier bill it doesn t actually have to be watts at feet i ve heard radio transmissions from concert security over guitar amps with no guitar plugged in and security uses radios transmitting 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 kf yj
