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July 31st 03, 06:20 AM
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TW, This is what I was talking about! It is going to get worse as volunteers crank up the monitoring!
I know some folks scoffed, but it is important enough to have your
readers read it. It IS a serious a matter that some folks don't think is valid, but more and more, Mr. Hollingsworth is working with ham volunteers to stop it. Some say that FCC has not the time or funds to curb such activity, but they have asked ARRL and ham volunteers to assist in monitoring for such. Truly, FCC and hams are aware of it and are NOT happy about it! FCC IS determined, with volunteers, to put a stop to it. J FCC Warns Trucking Firms about Alleged Unlicensed 10-Meter Operation NEWINGTON, CT, Jul 28, 2003--The FCC Enforcement Bureau has sent Warning Notice letters to three highway transportation firms asserting that drivers of some of their vehicles may have transmitted without a license on 10 meters. All three notices allege the unlicensed operations took place July 8 on Interstate highways in South Carolina. Letters went out July 14 from FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth to Jolly Roger Capital Ltd of Columbia, South Carolina, Tidewater Transit Company of Kinston, North Carolina, and Shuford Lumber of Marion, North Carolina. He warned all three firms that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a license could lead to fines of up to $10,000, equipment seizure and even imprisonment. Hollingsworth cited "information before the Commission" that spelled out each vehicle's highway location, license plate and--in two instances--operating frequency (28.085 MHz). One of the Warning Notice letters also identified the make and year of the vehicle. The alleged offenses were said to have occurred when the vehicles were under way on Interstate 77 or Interstate 20 in South Carolina. Hollingsworth asked all three firms to get in touch with him to discuss the allegations. |
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July 31st 03, 04:56 PM
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"RadioRay" wrote in message om... I know some folks scoffed, but it is important enough to have your readers read it. It IS a serious a matter that some folks don't think is valid, but more and more, Mr. Hollingsworth is working with ham volunteers to stop it. Some say that FCC has not the time or funds to curb such activity, but they have asked ARRL and ham volunteers to assist in monitoring for such. Truly, FCC and hams are aware of it and are NOT happy about it! FCC IS determined, with volunteers, to put a stop to it. J I whole heartedly agree that truckers who run these illegal radios should be dealt with severly. But you know what's interesting in the history department? When CB radio was first assigned to be used by the public at large with but a mere a license application, it was amateur radio operators who thought it was "cute and silly" to yack away on those frequencies just because they had the means to do so. Now the tables have turned and those same amateurs have become the watchdogs. What is needed to curb the appetites of truckers, and others to transmit on amateur frequencies without a license, is legislation to make it illegal to sell an illegal radio. Also one that would slap a hefty fine for using a modified radio, as well as for doing the modifying. Begin today and write the lawmakers to have this oversight corrected. |
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July 31st 03, 11:51 PM
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#4
August 1st 03, 03:48 PM
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And why are you using google, Jerry? : )
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August 4th 03, 06:04 PM
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"tools" wrote in message rthlink.net...
"gw" wrote in message m... (RadioRay) wrote in message . com... I know some folks scoffed, but it is important enough to have your readers read it. It IS a serious a matter that some folks don't think is valid, but more and more, Mr. Hollingsworth is working with ham volunteers to stop it. Some say that FCC has not the time or funds to curb such activity, but they have asked ARRL and ham volunteers to assist in monitoring for such. Truly, FCC and hams are aware of it and are NOT happy about it! FCC IS determined, with volunteers, to put a stop to it. J FCC Warns Trucking Firms about Alleged Unlicensed 10-Meter Operation NEWINGTON, CT, Jul 28, 2003--The FCC Enforcement Bureau has sent Warning Notice letters to three highway transportation firms asserting that drivers of some of their vehicles may have transmitted without a license on 10 meters. All three notices allege the unlicensed operations took place July 8 on Interstate highways in South Carolina. Letters went out July 14 from FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth to Jolly Roger Capital Ltd of Columbia, South Carolina, Tidewater Transit Company of Kinston, North Carolina, and Shuford Lumber of Marion, North Carolina. He warned all three firms that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a license could lead to fines of up to $10,000, equipment seizure and even imprisonment. Hollingsworth cited "information before the Commission" that spelled out each vehicle's highway location, license plate and--in two instances--operating frequency (28.085 MHz). One of the Warning Notice letters also identified the make and year of the vehicle. The alleged offenses were said to have occurred when the vehicles were under way on Interstate 77 or Interstate 20 in South Carolina. Hollingsworth asked all three firms to get in touch with him to discuss the allegations. you seem to treasure your precious ten meters..........how often do you talk there???????? also i think this type of activity encourages a system of 'rats'..........do-gooders, buttdinkskis........who haven't anything better to do . anyone that does this sort of stuff is a idiot...........think about it........some guy hears a trucker talking on ten meters and jumps in his car, and goes and tries to find out who is doing it........i tell you what you have here.......you have a bunch of former cb types who have bought into all of the hype about upgrading, etc........and now they think they are 'important'......so under the cover of the 'law', they do such things,.....thinking that they are doing good .......but what is happening here is pandora's box...........you are inviting the government to become more and more intrusive in order to justify their budgets and their jobs..........and where else can you sit around on your ass and get paid for it, except the government..........you have to ask yourself ........who controls what......??? you guys seem to have a much greater self assessment of yourselves as far as radio goes, than should be attributed......who is in control???? you????? the arrl????? the american citizen???? Again, radio spectrum is controlled at the discretion of Congress and regulated by FCC. As far as ham radio is concerned, for the most part, the licensed operators themselves have the obligation to police that which as been assigned by law to them. Most of us don't care what you do on the CB frequen- cies, but when certain ones decide that they can just invite themselves along for the ride, that becomes a different matter! To allow this to continue only would open up radio to becoming useless on any band. If a group (in this case, truckers) decide to just start talking anywhere on any frequency, then inter- ference will prevail--even to the extent of loss of life. and i ask you...........in all seriousness........how much harm is done when a hard working trucker, talks on 10 meters....... What's the harm in anyone talking to air traffic controllers? What's the harm in everyone just having a radio so they can call the police department directly? It lies in training, discipline and the purpose of the particular service. The general public has not the ability to intermesh with a particular procedure and routine designed into a given radio service. Controlled radio services are there to accomplish particular tasks, whether it be to respond to a car crash, a bank robbery or just order a pizza for a crew. To see what would happen, I only point you to the CB band where chaos prevails. The Amateur frequencies, while often are used by the rightful operators just for QSOs, are also recognized as a valuable resource, used for experimentation for the furtherance of radio in general, and has proven to save lives. It is also wrong for people to usurp frequencies simple because they want to. The reason for this is the fact remains that control and regulations are are necessary for radio's survival. J they all use rinky dink rigs.......anyways.......you guys are tilting at windmills..........you think the government is your friend......one day, this too shall pass...........gentlemen ........your radio art is dying.......and all you are doing is contributing to its demise.... At last! Someone with good sense. |
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August 6th 03, 11:11 PM
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#8
August 7th 03, 03:36 PM
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(RadioRay) wrote in message om...
(gw) wrote in message . com... (RadioRay) wrote in message . com... tle stupid"...... quit parsing my posts mudduck....and go back and agitate the truckers .......you are nothing more than another in a long line of silly self important, terminal technician class hamsters that hang around more on the newsgroups arguing than you ever have on your freeking radios.......so go do your volunteer stuff and shut up......you mean nothing and your radio sucks and you probably can't get out anways so you are a internet ham......talk the talk, but you can't walk the walk..........radioraydinksi....hey asshole ...you didn't go to school in detroit did ya????...........is that you jerry???? Why, tan-fer, thar, gre't day thar, mercy me thar dri-vah, go'rd thar, shore thang thar"..................... And my license is Advanced, the radio (among others) is an IC706, I build my own antennas, I have talked around the world on 100 watts or less, and I teach communications to USAF/CAP operators. And I know that yer coax thar has to be only long enough to get from the "reddio" to the antenna. Never been to Detroit, and don't want to. J well monte i don't know why you persist in typing what you perceive a cber to talk like but do what you have to do.......my advice to you is to go back to the misc.truckers newsgroup and file your complaints there........and sir i am real impressed you build your own antennas......i build my own amps.....so there mr smarty pants..........and guess what.........you hamsters elmered me too.......ain't that a kick in the pants........and i don't have any letters by my name and i do the same thing you guys do and i don't have to kiss uncle's ass........oh by the way.......i have a icom too and it is a good radio....talks anywhere from 500 to 30 .........and i even talk on 28.085 too...he, he ,he.......... |
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