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Re: why can local cops stop you and cconfiscate your legal radio equipment when you're operating legally???
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Tood Karolstein
Nov 18, 2009, 8:02:52 PM11/18/09
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On Nov 18, 11:06�am, radioguy <radioguy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> and speaking of legality and FCC rules, why do local cops have the
> authority to fine and arrest you and confiscate your legal radio
> equipment even though you're operating completely legally under
> Federal law just because you don't have any radio license to show
> them?
>
> I always thought you didn't have �to show them your radio license
> since the FCC doesn't require you to carrty it.
>
> However, I have recently been informed that not only can the cop fine,
> arrest you and confiscate you but that he has the DUTY to do so ansd
> so NUST do so.
>
> So if you're a ham who gets stopped in Officer Bubba's county and
> Officer Bubba tears up your ham radio license because "ham radio is
> illegal in this county" and then y ou get stopped later in Officer
> Billy Bobn's county and don't have your lradio icense because Officer
> Bubba tore it up or you're a GMRS user who can't prove to either
> Officer Bubba or Officer Billy Bob that you're operating legallyu
> under Feederal law because you don't have a license since it's another
> member of your fimmediate family already thirty miles further down the
> road who has the radio license you're covered under, you're screwed.
>
> And filing a lawsuit just gets you another charge of interfering in
> the legal duty of a police officer.
>
> And even filing a lawsuit doesn't get you off the hook since one
> county doesn't have authority over another county. And you can't
> afford any appeal to the state courts or even the local court costs.
>
> So how do GMRS users travelling in a caravan using mobile GMRS radios
> so they can communicate further through repeaters or even further
> simplex (external antennas allowed) than they can through cheap little
> bubble pack radios (no external antenna allowed) prove to a cop
> they're operating legally under federal law when the cop redused to
> believe it unless you show and give him your radio license to look at
> when you don't have anything to give him in the first place since
> you're covered under your relative's license who has one and has just
> gotten out of range of your being able to call him on the radio
> because the cop stopped you?
>
> Or else you would have still been within radio range of each other.
You're as crazy as KB9RQZ
> and speaking of legality and FCC rules, why do local cops have the
> authority to fine and arrest you and confiscate your legal radio
> equipment even though you're operating completely legally under
> Federal law just because you don't have any radio license to show
> them?
>
> I always thought you didn't have �to show them your radio license
> since the FCC doesn't require you to carrty it.
>
> However, I have recently been informed that not only can the cop fine,
> arrest you and confiscate you but that he has the DUTY to do so ansd
> so NUST do so.
>
> So if you're a ham who gets stopped in Officer Bubba's county and
> Officer Bubba tears up your ham radio license because "ham radio is
> illegal in this county" and then y ou get stopped later in Officer
> Billy Bobn's county and don't have your lradio icense because Officer
> Bubba tore it up or you're a GMRS user who can't prove to either
> Officer Bubba or Officer Billy Bob that you're operating legallyu
> under Feederal law because you don't have a license since it's another
> member of your fimmediate family already thirty miles further down the
> road who has the radio license you're covered under, you're screwed.
>
> And filing a lawsuit just gets you another charge of interfering in
> the legal duty of a police officer.
>
> And even filing a lawsuit doesn't get you off the hook since one
> county doesn't have authority over another county. And you can't
> afford any appeal to the state courts or even the local court costs.
>
> So how do GMRS users travelling in a caravan using mobile GMRS radios
> so they can communicate further through repeaters or even further
> simplex (external antennas allowed) than they can through cheap little
> bubble pack radios (no external antenna allowed) prove to a cop
> they're operating legally under federal law when the cop redused to
> believe it unless you show and give him your radio license to look at
> when you don't have anything to give him in the first place since
> you're covered under your relative's license who has one and has just
> gotten out of range of your being able to call him on the radio
> because the cop stopped you?
>
> Or else you would have still been within radio range of each other.
You're as crazy as KB9RQZ
Punce DeMarkie
Nov 19, 2009, 3:20:11 PM11/19/09
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I am the puppet master. See me pull the strings.
dancing morkiequeen
Nov 19, 2009, 8:20:25 PM11/19/09
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Dance marky..............DANCE !
Bruce Watson
Nov 20, 2009, 3:40:43 AM11/20/09
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