• teft@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Probably one of the spectrum regulators will show up (the FCC in the US) not MPs.

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        8 hours ago

        Most of the world has spectrum regulators for that sort of thing, it isn’t only a US thing. MPs aren’t really the people who would be investigating unless you live in some authoritarian regime where the police and federal regulatory bodies are commingled.

        I could be wrong but I can’t think of an example where a military regulates spectrum in any meaningful way and a quick web search turns up nothing.

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          18 minutes ago

          Living near military installations would be the big exception. I live probably about 20 miles from a massive radar facility that can track planes from across the Atlantic ocean, and doing anything within the area to set something like that off would probably have the MPs knocking on your door long before anybody else. I think even flying drones above a certain height isn’t allowed for miles around.

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          5 hours ago

          Ah yeah you must be right then because a quick web search (in English I assume) didn’t turn up anything about other countries’ counter-terrorist organisations or the fact that radar is used for missile locks for anti-aircraft missiles. Good comment.

          The US is not the whole world.

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            27 minutes ago

            They never implied that the US is the whole world. They merely mentioned what I assume is the regulatory body that they’re familiar with.

            If I said that the regulatory body who would be knocking on your door in France is ANFR (L’agence nationale des fréquence), would you complain about how France isn’t the whole world?

            I get that we’re all sick of American-centrism, but that was a really benign comment. They have no way of knowing what your country’s regulatory agency is offhand.

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              9 minutes ago

              And yet your other comment agrees with my point.

              I think the context that you and the original commenter missed is

              “near to anything interesting”

              What do you think that means in the context of radar? What is radar used to measure?

              Living near military installations would be the big exception

              It’s like you just want to disagree with me because someone else downvoted me.