> 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.
>