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Hopefully no one is concerned about the FCC visiting our site because it’s pretty pedestrian stuff we post here, really.
gatekeeper4.fcc.gov does occassionally appear in our logs, but so does something called 420source and we’ve been getting crawled all over by students at Arizona State University (1500 hits in the last two days) for some reason 🙂
We also get a whole bunch of referrals from ebay auctions. You’d be amazed at all the pages ebay sellers refer to here to further illustrate, substiantiate or otherwise support their sales.
Also note that node 1139 is a thread about the Talking House transmitter and the FCC status of the ATU that’s sold with the unit, not ground leads or other legalities…
Since way back in the usenet days, certain organizations have run spiders to alert to any significant on-line activity and it’s possible the FCC still does that. Radio Shack did this up until just a little while ago and they were pretty agressive about it. It used to be fun to post “Radio Shack sucks!” in the usenet radio shack NG and watch the contra-bots go crazy.
The FCC is certainly welcome to vist and I think it would be wonderful (though not very likely) if a field engineer or other key staff member would drop by and post.
Other than that, the idea of someone at the FCC actually “watching” this site seems unlikely, although there might be a few lurkers – part15.us is a pretty cool place 🙂
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