Five months and counting
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| snap of sknaars operating table March 7, 2020 |
March 7th 2020 made
five [5] months since the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Saint Kitts and
Nevis, the NTRC, issued a cease and
desist order to the utility company, telling them to stop transmitting illegal
radio frequency signals on the international short wave radio frequencies used
by other radio services inside and outside of the Federation of Saint Kitts and
Nevis.
As I scribe this I
am not aware that the utility company has stopped transmitting the illegal
radio frequency signals that cause RF interference, noise and frequency jamming
to other radio services inside Saint Kitts and Nevis. Five months ago on
October 7th 2019, the NTRC, issued the order to stop the utility company from
making these illegal signal transmissions, but the utility company seems to
have just brushed the NTRC aside, and continues to generate the illegal RF
interference, noise and frequency jamming signals.
I suspect that the
NTRC is now doing what I think they should have done since day one. I am of the
view that the NTRC should have taken this matter to Court since last year, and
let the Judge tell the utility company that they are in breach of the laws, and
to cease and desist from transmitting the interference signals.
I am an amateur
radio operator since 1968 and have never had my amateur radio service disrupted
until the utility company came along and installed equipment that jammed the
amateur radio frequencies with RF interference and noise all day, every day,
since 2017. Local amateur radio operators tried to seek an accommodation with
the utility company, but up to now the local amateur radio operators are still
experiencing the RF interference, noise and frequency jamming, generated by the
utility company smart meter system.
We do not know why
the utility company is insisting that the local, indigenous, native, amateur
radio operators, must endure the RF interference, noise and frequency jamming,
every day, when they [the utility company] have removed the equipment which generate the illegal RF
interference, noise and frequency jamming signals, from the houses and
locations used by our visiting amateur
radio operators from the USA, one week after the NTRC issued the cease and
desist order to the utility company.
I am of the view that the removal action taken by the
utility company, to remove the equipment causing the illegal RF interference
signals, from the houses and locations where visiting USA amateur radio
operators reside and operate, should also be done for ALL our local indigenous amateur
radio operators. We are all amateur radio operators, and if the utility company
can stop the illegal interfering signals for the "white" people, they
can also do it for the "Black" people who also live in Saint Kitts.
It is rather sad that we still see this social activity happening in our Saint
Kitts in 2020.
But all is not lost,
amateur radio will not die, we will overcome and in time the utility company
will do the right thing and stop generating illegal RF interference signals on
the short wave bands. Amateur radio is INTERNATIONAL, and the amateur radio brothers and sisters
around the world are in our corner.
Here is a link to an amateur radio news
station in the USA who carried an items on the Saint Kitts utility RF
interference issue, item #5. This is a recent world wide news bulletin.
[to be continued]
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