Switzerland's national amateur radio society USKA reports on action to tackle the problem of repeater abuse.

On 2nd July 2021, in the morning on various 70 cm repeaters, increased interference in the form of DTMF and siren signals were heard again. Various DF teams were encouraged to track down the troublemaker and with success - various bearings led to Bellevue / Gottschalk Enberg (southeast of Menzingen), where two teams found an already known radio amateur at 12:30 p.m. Two people then had intensive conversations with this troublemaker, who - as in a conversation on May 26, 2021 with another successfully tracker - pretended to be stupid and clueless. Due to the waterproof bearing results and the repeated encounter of the same person at the coordinates of the respective bearings, there is no doubt that we have found the right one.

Maybe it's just a pious wish, but we hope that the interferer's intelligence is sufficient to see that it is now time for his QRT.

It remains for us to express our thanks to all those who have supported us for weeks and months with their tips, their active help and thousands of kilometres driven. In the end, Ham spirit is what you achieve together - and not what you talk about autocratically and preferably by radio.

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