XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   On 03/03/2021 16:11, Brian Morrison wrote:   
   > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:45:20 +0000, Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:   
   >   
   >>> The problem was that in a supermarket carpark, customers were having   
   >>> trouble locking and unlocking their cars. Is it possible that the OFCOM   
   >>> engineer actually found that he needed to do a bit of urgent on-the-job   
   >>> shopping?   
   >> I used to stop lazy buggers getting into their cars parked in the drop   
   >> off zone at a local car park by calling cq on 70cm ...   
   >   
   > As you are a licensed user of the frequency, you have priority over the   
   > unlicensed, unprotected short range devices used for these purposes. Of   
   > course people who are not aware of this still get annoyed when their key   
   > fobs don't get received by the nasty super-regen receivers in their car.   
   > They should direct their annoyance at the PTTs who decided the 433MHz ISM   
   > allocation should go ahead in the mid 1980s.   
   >   
   doesn't bother the Mustang   
      
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