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  1. Re:WinRadio by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Universal Radio Grabber: the USRP
    How well do these cards handle noise from the computer? And for that matter, are they worth the money? I seem to recall them being very expensive.

    WinRadio is available as internal PCI and external USB devices. Prices start at $500 US for general-coverage shortwave. Winradio Receivers

  2. Try Grove for an antenna by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Digital Signals Spark Static From AM Radio

    If Grove Enterprises doesn't have it, it probably is no longer on the market

    http://www.grove-ent.com/

  3. Re:The ARRL - we're here to help. by Barbarian · · Score: 4, Informative · on Utility Cuts Short BPL Trial

    There is much more than sad lonely guys in their bunkers involed in interference on the HF bands. If you go to that link, most of the frequencies are labelled Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, emergency response, etc.. All these would be subject to inteference out by widespread BPL deployment.

  4. Re:RFID disrupter? by ciphertext · · Score: 1 · on Wal*Mart continues push for RFID adoption

    The laws in the U.S would need to change. In the U.S, the Communications Act of 1934 makes it is illegal to sell or operate a device that interferes with licensed radio communications. The U.S. defines "interferes" to include jamming.

  5. Slashdot only has part of the story by KC7GR · · Score: 3, Informative · on Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband

    The bottom line is that BPL's harmful effects ARE NOT limited to ham frequencies. There's a bunch of other services, both commercial and government, using HF from 2-30MHz.

    Just as a few examples: Aeronautical HF, NOAA RadioFAX over HF, NOAA storm warnings broadcast by SITOR over HF, Federal and Marine HF frequencies... The list goes on forever.

    So, it really isn't just hams that are going to be suffering. It's EVERYONE that uses the HF spectrum, including the U.S. Government!

    How long do you think said government is going to let BPL exist in its current form once critical military or Justice Department installations start noticing the very same interference that'll be driving us hams nuts?

  6. Re:In flight electronics by shepd · · Score: 1 · on More On Airplanes And Internet

    >Can you define "banned"? In the UK there's no problem buying unlocked scanners (unlike the US IIRC), they used to sell them in my local Tandy (Radio Shack). Of course they may be illegal to use, but I've never heard of that being the case.

    Well, I'm basing this on both the reactions and telling-off I got for smuggling in my Canadian scanner in to the UK (nothing is banned in Canada) and what I've read on this site. Supposedly it was made illegal to monitor the police band some time ago, for example.

    ze important part:

    "Q. Am I breaking the law by owning a scanner?

    A. No, but it is illegal to use one to listen to frequencies other than general reception transmissions or those parts of the radio spectrum which your transmitting licence, if you have one, allows you to use. You could be prosecuted for this."

    Of course, with the correct licenses anything is legal. Although I am a little freaked out that in the UK you have to pay to use things like CB. ;-)

  7. Re:Anyone here a ham radio buff? by bromoseltzer · · Score: 1 · on PCI Shortwave Receiver
    Nothing stops them, except they need the money and the will to do it. This was commonplace in Cold War days, when the Evil Empire was jamming all the time.

    Iraq shortwave broadcasting exists but is "erratic", they say.

    - AA6E