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Originally Posted by Jon T
The newer varieties of these device will use frequencies well into the hundreds of megahertz, that's where air traffic control, police, ambulance and fire brigades have their blocks of RF spectrum, not to mention the non-safety of life comms such as broadcast radio.
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Most electronics already use frequencies within that spectrum, PC's has been running memory at 133Mhz(airband), ethernet is 100Mhz (public broadcast), Wifi/microwaves/other licence free devices) at 2.4Ghz (extremely close to Ham radio including it's harmonics)..
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Originally Posted by Jon T
Ofcom can and will remove these devices once a complaint has been made that they are causing interference.
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From what I do know Ofcom has investigated a lot of complaints and no action has yet been taken (following normal RFI precautions/preventions will cure most problems)
I think that's the issue atm is that there's to many amatuers who think that their hobby is purely about plugging a black box into a bought antenna and nothing else needs to be done
