Even if I transmit to Norway without a license I still would get in shit, though maybe not is as much trouble as non European countries. if you have the licenses (the exam is way easier nowadays and you don’t need to learn morse code any more!) its encouraged.
Even China encourages radio hams these days (well they make the equipment). To be fair when you are going onto MF HF and VHF radio bands the rules make sense as ships and planes use them still for safety critical stuff. Incidentally the UK does not and will not extradite someone to any nation with death penalty especially for an offence committed on UK soil, but they will co-operate with foreign authorities when the countries complain a UK citizen has made a nuisance of himself there. I vaguely remember a few of the old style phone freaks what persisted to the 90s got hauled up by China Telecom for fraud with BT providing a full evidence trail to Beijing…
its no diffierent from the youths what go to ES or NL and think miraculously that drugs laws don’t apply there and get hauled up.
However nowadays you have to be trafficking kilos of smack in China to get executed, they stopped executing small timers years ago, and killing a spy nowadays (unless they have made enemies of big businessmen and/or multiple rival groups) is more a movie script than reality – especially as alive they can be exchanged for other spies. What actually happens is they have to sit in prison for awhile and then are quietly let go, but Chinese prison is worse than an English one!
Also I am responsible for after a sophisticated piece of kit which uses radio frequencies to keep old people safe which is designed in Norway and Sweden, built in China and the software comes from the Netherlands. Given my past I am lucky to be trusted with this job, an ex druggie and former illegal broadcaster – so it is basic ethics and integrity for me to obey the internationally agreed rules for radio communications these days…
Scaffold poles, flag poles, washing line poles can indeed be used as antennas and/or ground planes of an antenna.
However depending on what they are made from the cable to them may need a balun transformer or the signal reflects back into the TX and heats up the finals (transistors/MOSFETS) rather than getting into the airwaves where it should be. also the scaffold pole especially if it and the coax is radiating (it shouldn’t be) might make the antenna more directional.
