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Turn it on in peacetime anywhere near to anything interesting and you'll get a visit from your local military police.
Probably one of the spectrum regulators will show up (the FCC in the US) not MPs.
Maybe, but I’m not in the US. The US is not the whole world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And yet your other comment agrees with my point.
I think the context that you and the original commenter missed is
What do you think that means in the context of radar? What is radar used to measure?
It's like you just want to disagree with me because someone else downvoted me.
No? I agree with you on the radar. This other comment was simply about repeatedly stating that "the US is not the whole world." Nobody ever said that it was or implied some kind of US-centric worldview/behavior. The other commenter merely stated who the regulatory body is who would be involved in yelling at you for turning on the radar equivalent of a fog horn if you were in the US, probably because those are the laws and regulations that they're familiar with.
Near something important? Yeah, you're most likely getting a hasty visit from the local MPs. But outside of those areas, you're going to get chewed out by a government branch like the FCC in the US or the ANFR in France.
But saying that isn't me saying that "France is the whole world" or something. I just happen to know what part of the French government is involved in regulating radio frequencies in the country.