Yeah, we got our visit after we bought a new radio system in the 1970s and started running at the full authorized power level to maintain comms despite a lot of reinforced concrete in the environment, which was the main reason for the new system.
]]>So color me *very* surprised that the FCC took this action against Marriott. Marriott must have peeved someone with a ton of political clout and more lobbyists on staff than Marriott has, that’s all I can figure…
]]>When I was in law enforcement they visited our base station in response to a complaint about interference. They determined the problem was with the frequency accuracy of the complainant’s equipment and not with our transmitter. They were dinged for infringing on our frequency, but we didn’t actually notice because our equipment filtered them out.
]]>I guess ‘Marriott’ isn’t high up on the ‘Friends of Politicians’ list! LOL
]]>Hmm, doing it they way they did made it even more obvious that they were jamming. Over powering could be covered as an ‘innocent equipment malfunction’. They have also attracted the attention of the Canadian regulators who have issued a caution but don’t have a complaint to work with.
]]>This of course is “jamming” as defined by the FCC, and thus illegal — it’s deliberately interfering with radio transmissions that have nothing to do with you and are not interfering with you (since WiFi is designed to operate on shared bandwidth). But hey, we don’t need regulation of things like this because the magic of the free market will make them stop doing it, just like it stopped child labor and black lung disease [/snark].
]]>