Hi John,
I have no problem with what you just said, however, let's say they're reported, and nothing is done.
Then someone's gonna have to get that station off the air, because that station cannot remain on the air.
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Miller 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:27 AM
  Subject: Re: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about this topic?


  > There's nothing wrong with finding the guy, but then let the authorities 
  > deal with it. I've been part of that myself in fact and that's how we 
  > handled it if we thought it was deliberate. Giving them an address to go 
  > to isnot a bad thing, going on the property yourself, that's a problem. 
  > Now, I do knwo of a situation where it was accidental and a friend of mien 
  > did go to the door and politely explain what was happening, turned out 
  > the person hadn't been on the air in a month and apparently their kid was 
  > playing with the radio at onen point and he didn't realize the radio was 
  > ruened on. That resulted in an appology and alock put on the door for that 
  > room. If it's deliberate they find them, then report them to who needs to 
  > know and let it go there.
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
  > To: <[log in to unmask]>
  > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:44 PM
  > Subject: Re: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about this 
  > topic?
  >
  >
  >> "The hams in that community took matters into their own hands!"
  >>
  >> And, they were lucky to live to tell about it.
  >>
  >> "So, what do you all think about this issue?"
  >>
  >> Not very much.
  >>
  >> About a year ago, I observed the hunt for a 2 meter bootlegger in my
  >> area be nearly destroyed by one guy with a survivalist mentality who
  >> was within a few hours of attempting exactly what you described.
  >>
  >>
  >> Self policing among hams has never been intended to mean busting down
  >> somebody's door.
  >> Operators like that, and even those operators who call people down too
  >> harshly over the air give the ARRL's well intended, but much abused
  >> Official Observer program its very bad reputation.
  >>
  >> As for there being no FCC enforcement, don't bet your ticket on that.
  >>
  >> The people from the New Orleans office worked closely with us on the
  >> case I mentioned. Three of us knew that they had been in town twice,
  >> and were planning to return the next week to nail the guy. Litterly on
  >> the Friday before they were coming in on Tuesday, the guy dropped out
  >> of site, and has not been heard from since. The speculation among
  >> those of us who were pretty sure where he was operating from is that
  >> he was also posing as a private security person. Apparently the real
  >> security people caught him, and he vanished.
  >