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this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would appreciate you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. It's been a long held belief by some people on YouTube, mostly in the comments section. Actually I'm not really talking about other YouTubers, although I've heard it on other YouTube channels also that the FCC doesn't care if you violate some arbitrary
a law that you don't agree with. Okay, well, here is a story today about an actual FCC citation of a GMRS user. This isn't even about Ham Radio. This is about a GMRS user that got cited for illegal types of transmissions on GMRS frequencies even though he's a licensed user. Look at this so over here at nott com magazine dot com okays it says, yes, the FCC is citing violators. Don't think that general mobile radio service and
fractions are going unnoticed. This is written by Chuck geez And from June of this year and into Dup. I assume that's his call sign, amateur radio call sign, So Chuck into Dup. He's the author of the article, not who the violation is against. There's a common myth the FCC doesn't pay much attention to gmrs, let alone it's six or radio service frs. But that's far from the truth. In most services, if there's interference complaint,
FCC agents pounce into action in an effort to remove the problem. There's incentive too, if you think about it. If the FCC finds interference to be malicious, a nice hefty fine may be levied, helping to pay for enforcement costs and then for some FCC coffer for the FCC's coffers, just like a speeding ticket, just like a fine about whatever you do in any aspect of life. If they find you to be in violation of something, and they find you and you have to pay this money, they make more money so
why not. A recent enforcement action taken by the FCC against GMRS AGMRS license has pretty much gone unnoticed by most media as well as hobbyists and the web. Continue reading for details. Okay, so this is yeah. I haven't seen this one, the specific one yet, although I do try to watch not a rubicon where I can, and it's possible he mentioned this one and I didn't see it, but he has mentioned other ones in the past even
if he didn't talk about this one. In a notice of violation issued on June seventh, the FCC sideed GMRS operator from Washington State for transmitting continuous unmodulated signals on four six two seven two five Mega hurts. The FCC track down the signal to the Meisner Lookout communication site near Deer Island, Oregon, which
is northwest of Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. In his letter to Martin T. Anderson, who holds a GMRS license WQQ P six five three, the FCC said the agent inspected the side on April twenty six and found a faulty motoroller radius transmitter sending out continuous signal transmission on GMRS frequency from the peaks. So continuous transmissions are illegal. The next part of this article shows this gentleman's picture. I don't want to show his picture. I think it
might be in a little bit bad taste for this article. The show a picture of the guy, but they say the picture was taken from the MYGMRS dot com website. So it's a picture that he freely shared on a public website. So okay, okay, maybe I should show it, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that, So we're gonna skip through that part
real quick. So the citation is about a continuous signal. So down here at this last paragraph on this one inciting the violation, FCC knows that GMRS Rule ninety five one seven three three Alpha ten states GMRS stations must not communicate continuous or uninterrupted transmissions for except for communications evolving immediate safety of life and property.
So, in other words, if they have like a pirate radio station, someone just keys up and broadcasts something a talk radio show, music, whatever, something like that, then that is illegal according to the terms of the GMRS license. Now you might say, well, how would you know that, Well, you're supposed to read that big, long, freaking document when you go and sign up for GMRS license and check all the boxes and put your name and information in there and your credit card to pay the thirty
five dollar feef. You're supposed to read all that stuff. Nobody does it. I didn't do it. I didn't read any of that crap. But I'm like, I know basic radio etiquette, so I'm like, I kind of know it to do anyway. You have to learn a lot of that to get your HAM radio license, but you don't have to learn anything to get your GMRS license. I've always said that the biggest thing is just don't be a jerk on the air, and you'll probably go unnoticed by most people.
So this continuous transmission that they're talking about here is just it's a side of this. And they put a notice of the violation right here. Martin T. Anderson WQPP six five three is his call sign, his GMRS call sign in Vancouver, So there we go. A letter was sent to Anderson's address a mail dropping Vancouver. He has held a GMRS license since January of twenty thirteen and has been a license damage to raidar operators since nineteen ninety five.
In the presentation at the twenty fourteen. Sea Pack. Sea Pack is a ham fest, a ham radio festival or like a trade show that we have in Seaside, Oregon once a year. I've never been. I've always wanted to go. It's probably on my bucket list for next year. I might company buddy pull up there. We'll see what happens with that. Speaking of ham Fest, the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama, which is largely regarded as the third largest hamfest in the United States, happens this week at
the time of the recording that you're watching this video. It's happening this week. You can go buy the gigaparts table and get a twenty percent off of anything from LDG Electronics at that Hamfest. I don't know if they're doing like rain checks or online orders during that time. Contact gigaparts and let them know or enquire and I'll inquire. Also, maybe I'll put a comment down below after the fact, but you can get twenty percent discount off of everything LDG.
LDG and Gigaparts are sponsoring this video, so I thank them for that. But go buy their table at the Huntsville Hamdfest. I keep wanting to say Houston. It's not in Houston. It's in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, Hamfest. It's a great show. It's a fantastic show. We're gonna be out there for four or five days during this week. While at the time you're watching the video, I'll probably already be there and we're gonna go
out there and we're gonna activate a lot of PODA on Montisana website. Monasana State Park. LDG is going to have this sale going on Saturday and Sunday during the Hamfest. Go buy the Giga Parts booth, tell them that you saw this video and ask them about their twenty percent discount on everything LDG. So thank you to Gigaparts and to LDG for supporting this channel. So apparently
he's been sided at this point in time. It does this article does not give a number, a dollar amount about let's say it's going to be a two thousand dollars fine or a ten thousand dollars fine or whatever. It doesn't
really say anything about that at all. A letter did mention that it's giving him a few days to respond, like I think I think it said ten days to respond, and then they'll take further action, but he has replied to it already saying, you know it's it's a faulty transmitter and something's going on here. He says right here that the Messner lookout side apparently was where
Anderson had a repeater on four six two seven two five. The repeater, identified as Columbia seven two five on mygmors dot com is described to part of the system of threepreaters linked to the radio by the cover to cover the Lower Columbia River Gateway. Listening goes on to say the repeater at the Miser lookout is undergoing upgrades and has a temporary replacement, so it's already been a continuous
transmission has already been addressed. Enclosing FCC letters states that it will use all reletant event information received to determine whether any enforcement action is required to ensure compliance with FCC rules. While gmrs and fractions are few and far between, they do happen, and the FCC will go after cases of interference. They likely won't go after you for not using your call sign or using the equipment that isn't type accepted for gmrs. Okay, so you're reading it here, this
is again, this is the opinion of the author of this article. They likely won't go after you for not using your call sign or using equipment that isn't type accepted for GMRS and not words. If you have a part ninety Motorola radio or you have a Ham radio that you opened up in Mars Maude and and use it on GMS frequencies, they'll likely not go after you. Now, I'm not telling you you should do that, and I'm not telling you you shouldn't do that. I'm just reading the article, So don't come
by and say, well, Jason, you said it was okay. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm reading that this guy thinks that they likely won't go after you, and as far as using your call sign goes. I was talking with a few guys at the Ron day Voo in the Ozarks event last fall fall of twenty twenty two, and I was given a short presentation on amateur radio and kind of how it differed from GMRS radio and whatnot. A lot of those guys were surprised to hear that you're actually supposed to identify
your call sign every ten minutes. Again, if you read that really long freaking document that you sign your name on and pay your money for. When you get your GMRS license, you're supposed to identify your call sign on GMRS frequencies every ten to fifteen minutes. Do people do that? Very rarely, very rarely do I hear that. When I'm out overlanding with some guys and we're following everyone in a caravan, nobody IDs. We just talk to each
other. But there's a couple of repeaters here in town that I talk on GMRIS repeaters I'll talk on sometime, and everyone IDs, well, after talking to those guys the first two or three times, I find out they're all Hams anyway, so of course they're going to ID. It's it's common nature, and it's it's second nature for us to ID on repeater when we're talking, and even simplex too. But it is a requirement, even though nobody follows it. Bear that in mind, just say, oh, well,
that's not required on GMRS. Yes it is. That's why they give you a call sign, So you kind I d yourself so, and it goes on to say, and I might look this article up. Another recent violation cited by the FCC involved a business radio license c that had FS frequencies in their business radios at power levels above those allowed by FIRS rules. FS is generally restricted about half a watt or one watt on some channels, maybe two watson I think two watts max on most channels, but that it can go
down to half a watt on a few channels as well. The initial action in that case was for something entirely different, but they discover the FS channels while inspecting equipment, so they had commercial equipment with FRS frequencies programmed into them. Now, you could argue because FRS and GMRS share frequencies, but if you notice in your GMRS radio there are certain channels that don't go above a
half a watt zero point five watts, and that's four FRS restrictions. Even though you've got more power capabilities on some GMRS frequencies, it's not that way on all of them. So if they have an low power frequency in their commercial band and they're transmitting five or ten watts on it from their mortal role radio, that's that's a big no no. And apparently there there's an example
of an article where they're doing exactly that. So don't think that you are exempt or somehow excused from properly using your GMRS license and your GMRS repeater and your GMRS radio. If they say, oh, they're never going to come after you, that's just not true. I mean, the likelihood of them coming after you is small, but it's not zero. So why take the chance my only come And again, the only thing that I've ever actually said
about any of this is just don't be a jerk on the air. Don't key down your radio when someone else is trying to talk and cause interference. Don't play music of the air when you're on a repeater that's trying to get used, or during a net or something like that. And don't just badmouth people and use a bunch of foul language on the air. Don't do that. Just use it for what it's intended use for, and people will leave you alone for the most part.