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   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk   
      
   In message , Brian   
   Morrison  writes   
   >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.   
   >   
   Make no mistake that although amateurs have 'priority' over users of   
   unlicensed (licence-free) devices, if we are found to be 'causing'   
   problems we will be expected to cease and desist from our antisocial   
   practices. It has ever been thus.   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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