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"victimothy" <vqwytqefgogzc@mailinator.com> wrote in message 
news:a1d18ca9-3bd7-41d3-a35b-9e8616ae96ef@w17g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>I think it might be a good idea to reflect on the happenings of the
> last two years given that the entire melbourne repeater system might
> be following MEL07 offline.
>
> Although that fool snapper is by far the cause of the current
> situation, he is by no means the only problem.  In many ways he's
> simply one more straw than the others.  Prior to him, there was
> VK3AAZ, Glen, and a wide variety of other trouble makers out there.
>
> When I first started with CB 2 years ago, people were generally using
> it to catch up with old friends, conduct their businesses and
> generally to harrass and intimidate others, and it's that last
> activity that's the first to resurface on the occasions that snapper
> disappears for a while.  Things may return to that less than ideal
> normal now that MEL07's gone for good, but there have been so many
> false starts over the last year that many seem to have given up CB for
> good.
>
> The people who run MEL07 keep wondering what the problem is, and it
> appears to be that they've kept leaving the damn thing on.  If they'd
> just sat and listened to it for a while and heard the silence on the
> once busy MEL01, they would have realised that easily.
>
> To actually deal with all the issues properly is going to take much
> more than switching MEL07 off.  It's going to need the rule of law to
> deal with some of these idiots.


I found this while having a squiz on the inet, looks like this mob want some 
input from the decent people who use the repeater
http://www.uhfcb.com.au/News--and--Events.php, it wouldn't hurt to write a 
formal letter the the ACMA asking for a hand to get rid of the FuckWit 
Brigade that are obviously in breach of just about every rule in the 
RadioCommuncations Act 1992 have a read download it here 
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/all/search/53F0BF080E67E4CCCA25753E0008F3E4

here's a sample

Division 2-Civil proceedings

50 Civil proceedings

(1) If a person (the defendant):
(a) operates a radiocommunications device in a way that is not in
accordance with any licence; and
(b) that operation causes interference to radiocommunications
carried on by another person (the plaintiff) under a spectrum
licence;
the plaintiff may apply to the Federal Court for relief.
(2) The court may grant all or any of the following forms of relief:
(a) an injunction restraining the defendant from causing such
interference, from causing interference of a similar kind or
from causing or permitting others to cause interference of the
same or a similar kind;
(b) an order directing the defendant to do a specified act for the
purpose of:
(i) placing the plaintiff as nearly as practicable in the
position in which he or she would have been but for the
interference; or
(ii) otherwise mitigating detriment to the plaintiff arising
out of the interference;
(c) damages against the defendant in respect of loss suffered by
the plaintiff as a result of the interference, including loss of
any benefit that the plaintiff might reasonably have been
expected to obtain but for the interference;
(d) such other relief as the court thinks just.

The ACMA here in Queensland do act on compaints , make sure you have the 
evidence like recordings of the stations causing the interference along with 
their approximate location and even better their address if possible, I know 
it's bloody frustrating but persistance in contacting the ACMA will pay off, 
there's always the Minsiter for Communications if you feel the ACMA isn't 
doing enough, but like I said you have to provide as much information as 
possible for the ACMA to act, believe it or not they are flat out doing a 
multitude of other stuff and ufortunately CB and Amateur Radio related stuff 
falls under the less important status, like for instance when the Police get 
a call to attend a armed hold up and at the same time there is a motor 
vehicle accident with no injuries, which call should they attent to first? , 
anyhow good luck down there with the situation, it's a real fucking shame 
that a handfull of arse holes ruin things for a group of decent radio 
operators, that's why I always preferred 27 MHz to UHf CB far less dickheads 
and you can actually make contacts all around the world, now the new Solar 
Cycle has finally kicked in it will be possible to not only make contact 
with other operators right around Australia but have a yarn to someone in 
USA and Europe and a heap of other countries , the best UHf can do is a 
couple of hundred KLM when the Tropospheric Ducting is running and that 
isn't very often,

Cheers for now,

OldFella