FCC ISSUES REMINDER ABOUT HF TRANSCEIVERS
The FCC has issued a friendly reminder about those HF transceivers
ostensibly marketed for "amateur" use, but actually designed and
intended specifically for the so-called "freeband" radio operators,
who operate primarily in the 26 to 28 MHz frequency range.
In a May 13 Public Notice, the FCC points out that it's a violation of
FCC regulations to import or market a transmitter designed or intended
to operate outside the amateur bands unless the equipment has been
issued a grant of equipment authorization for the radio services it's
capable of operating. The FCC says it wanted to clarify its rules on
equipment that's "intended to operate in various radio services in the
high frequency radio spectrum, including '10-meter' Amateur Radio
Service (ARS) equipment." The notice--directed to "manufacturers,
importers, vendors and users of these transceivers"--emphasizes that
transmitters intended for use by FCC-authorized radio services except
the Amateur Radio Service must be type-accepted.
In the words of the Public Notice: "The Commission considers that the
transceivers discussed above are intended to be operated on
frequencies where the use of type-accepted equipment is required,
because of the simplicity of modifying them to extend their operating
frequency range."
The FCC also noted that it's illegal to import, market or operate a
transmitter that requires a grant of equipment authorization but for
which no grant has been issued, and that it's a violation to transmit
on frequencies allocated to a licensed radio service "without the
appropriate Commission-issued station license." Violators could be
subject to fines or imprisonment as well as equipment seizure and
forfeiture.--FCC
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Train
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"Aaron H. Voobner" <voo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >
Train" <cbm...@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:K0h37.32$qs5.1...@news02.optonline.net...
What's "fascist" about commenting that 25-32 Mhz CB radios thinly
disguised as ham gear are illegal to sell and use?
The laws are right there in black and white. I did not make them up.
Perhaps you should take out some of your displaced anger on the FCC.
I suggest you write to Mr. Hollingsworth (rhol...@fcc.gov) since he
is the one who is driving enforcement regarding this illegal gear.
-Aaron-
"Aaron H. Voobner" <voo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fbc7a2.01071...@posting.google.com...
>To quote a pretty little girl named Deborah Foreman in a movie called My
>Chauffeur when confronted with some stupid rule. Howard Hessman tells her,
>"I don't make the rules".........Her reply........"but you love them!"
I liked her best when she played along side Jockster in "Neurotics: A
Love Story".
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:56:24 -0400 (EDT), twist...@webtv.net
(Twistedhed) wrote:
"I for one, take great pleasure in debating the anticbers, 'cause not
one of them can stay on topic when questioned about their positions,
or they get personal."
"Full Linearity Adjustment"? But that's all that's been done to it, right?
>Will also include all paperwork I
>> have downloaded, ordered, bought or otherwise have acquired for this
>> radio.
Wow! You are heavy into documentation. But wait! Is there more?
>Base also comes with a new D-104 astatic silver eagle desk
>> microphone (RCI BIBLE and associated type stuff).
Okay. Got it. Now let's condense it into one sentence:
"I bought this radio for $500 and got the mod information, but I screwed it up
so badly that I want to get rid of it, and if you'll give me some of what I
paid for it, I'll give you all the documents I bought or downloaded so you can
figure out what I did and try to get the radio working, again."
QRM
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"Fascist? Puh-leeze. Is your head square? Just call us the Freedom
Fighters against Fascism."
Assumption #1: It is not my job to enforce the law.
Response: It is my legal right, moral responsibility, and independant
choice to enforce any law I see fit to enforce. But I am not enforcing
-- or breaking -- any law by posting in this newsgroup.
Assumption #2: I get upset about the law being broken.
Response: I do not get upset about any CB law being broken. On the
contrary, the more RF pirates that break the law the better.
Assumption #3: The breaking of the law does not directly harm me, a
friend, or a loved one.
Response: RF pirates affect me directly in my work.
.....Frank Gilliland (Spa...@cet.com)
Taken from rec.radio.cb on 2001-06-28 12:54 22 PST