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this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would appreciate you leaving us a comment or review on whatever podcast service you're listening from. Thank you. In seventy three, hope you enjoy it. More crackdowns on CB radio interference and this time they've issued a citation twenty five dollars fine to a man in Rockford for willfully interfering with CBE radio transmissions. You don't even have to have a license to transmit on CV it is citizen's band,
but you can still get fine for it. Check this out. This story comes from Rockford Scanner dot com and I went and found the FCC notices and FCC sections that it talks about in here. The title is FCC has been in town and charges the Rockford man for jamming the airwaves. I read another story recently about someone transmitting more power than they were supposed to, and they're looking at that right now as well. More to come on that later.
Read the article in full here, and it basically just kind of quotes the article. And this website looks like a Ham Radio Club website because it's just kind of like front page two thousand looking. So we're gonna go over here and look at the FCC Communications. We propose a penalty twenty five thousand dollars
against Jamie or Heimi maybe he pronounces it Heimi. John Leon, referred to as Leon the owner and operator of a Citizens Bands radio service in Rockford, Illinois, for apparently engaging in unauthorized operation and violation of Section three on one of the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four, as amended in sections ninety five dot nine three three and ninety five dot nine five seven. Part ninety five
is the FCC part that regulates the CB radio service. So I went and looked up sections ninety five dot nine three three and ninety five dot nine five seven. Ninety five dot nine three three talks about right here. In addition to the prohibit, the prohibited uses set forth in nine five dot three three three nine five dot nine three three, which is the one we're talking about today. Station must not use a CBRSCB radio station to transmit one way communications
other than those permitted. One way communication is basically to use it as a broadcast station, like you would turn on your AMNFM car stereo and listen to a one way transmission. You're not allowed to just key down and start talking about whatever anything and just not It's it's made for two way radio, it's not made for one way transmissions. Kind Of hard to determine that sometimes,
but that's that is what the rules say. To advertise or solicit the sale of any goods or services, to advertise political candidate, to communicate with stations in other countries except the General Radio Service and stations in Canada. Now, I would have questions about that. When I read that, I was like, wait a minute, hold on a second, because people shoot skip on
CB all the time and talk to other countries all the time. When I used to be heavy back into the CB when I was in college, we would talk to South America and other countries all the time because they were on the air and the bands were open propagation was up. HF bands were hot, and we would hear them and communicate with them all the time. In fact, you would always if the skip was up, that would be a thing, and like working DX and HAM radio, So that kind of surprise.
I would have to read more into that about Part D section nine to five dot three three Part D to communicate with stations in other countries. I don't know what that means exactly, so more to come on that later. And here's the part. F. E is to transmit communications of live delayed broadcast on radio, so, in other words, to retransmit copyrighted material. F is to transmit music, whistling, sound effects, or any other audio
material to amuse or entertain. And G is to transmit any sounds effects solely to attract attention. So that's that's the one they got him on right there. And it also details part ninety five ninety five to seven, And that part right here, nine five seven has three parts. Except as specified in B and C of the section. The operator must limit each on our conversation
with operators and other CBS to no more than five minutes. That's a rule they don't enforce if you are keyed up on the CB and you have a ten fifteen to twenty thirty minute conversation with someone, an hour long conversation with someone, no one's gonna come knock on your door. I think they used
instances of this where they can cite people for doing other things. Okay, they're like, well, technically it says you're not supposed to keep up for more than five minutes, so you're not supposed to have conversations for more than five minutes on air conversation. It's not that he keeped down and didn't let off the key for five minutes. It's that he limit each on air conversation with operators of other CB radio stations to no more than five minutes. I've
done that a thousand times. Not recently, but I've done that a thousand times. So I think that's probably something they just have on the books where they can say, Okay, well you did this, so you're in violation. But if you're out there just having a casual conversation, they're not going to come knocking on your door send you a letter in the mail over that.
I don't think when a CB operator is directly participating in emergency communications it does not have to comply with paragraph in the section and link the transmissions. When an operator is using CBE radio station to assist a traveler, it does not have to have to comply. Okay, so except for assistance of travelers
and emergency communications, doesn't have to comply with that. But regardless of that, I've still done that hundreds, if not thousands of times, because more than five minutes conversations take place on the CBE radio all the time, or at least used. If you're driving down the road and there's another truck driver near you and you guys strike up a conversation, those those conversations many many times last longer than five minutes. So I thought that was a strange thing
to be in the regulation. But okay, okay, again, it's just it's like spitting on the sidewalk. They're not going to find you for that, but if they see you do that, they can say, oh, well, you broke the law. So let's take a look in your car and see if we find any weed or pot illegal substances in there. Hopefully that won't be a thing much longer. The Commission's rules authorize the operation of
cb radio stations without the grant of visual license. Citizens band does not require license it used to back in like the seventies, sixties, and seventies. They removed that a long time ago, conditioned on compliance with all applicable regulations,
subject to limited exceptions, not applical in this case. The Commission's rules generally prohibit the use of CB for one way verbal communications in other words like radio style broadcast transmissions, limit conversations to five minutes in length, with which again I think is kind of a little bit of a gray area at the very least, and prohibit the transmission of music, sound effects, et cetera. Yeah, so all those toys, all those Cebe radio toys that you
hear on Channel nineteen all the time, those are all illegal. Does anyone care? Ah, Channel nineteen's a dumpster fire on CEBE radio anyway? And and GMRS is getting to be that way sidestep that comment, But does anyone cares that Channel nineteens a dumpster fire? Ah? Some people might, I don't know. Leon apparently violated the Act and the Commission's rules by using a CBE station to make one way transmissions and send nonverbal, indecipherable sound effects over
long periods, thereby avoiding his operating authority. Leon also apparently caused willful and malicious interference in violation of Section three thirty three of the Act. Such illegal operations pose a danger to the public because they can disrupt authorized CB uses such as travelers, needing assistants, warnings of hazards and conditions, were pointing accidents, et cetera. Moreover, CB can be used by public service providers and
first responders during natural disasters without infrastructure and damage and non existence. So Channel nine we talked about that in the video a while back. Does anyone still use Channel nine? I would think so. This statement goes on for a while. I'm not going to read the whole thing to you guys, but I'm gonna pick out the pieces I want, and I will link this in the description below so that you can go and read about this violation if you
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has a history of non compliance with Commission regulations. On January nineteenth to nineteen ninety nine, the Commission's former Consumer and Information Bureau released a forfeiture order imposing a fourteen thousand dollars monetary penalty against Leon for the transmission of obscene and decent or profane words or language or meaning, and for failure to make his station records available for inspection, both violations of this Commission's CB rules. Leon did
not respond to the forfeiture order nor pay the forfeiture amount. Okay, I wonder how well these citations and fines are regulated or how well they're enforced.
Subsequently, on March first to twenty eleven, twelve Freakin years later, March first to twenty eleven, the Enforcement Bureau issued a notice of violation to Leon, stating that the Bureau agent monitored continuously transmitting music and sound effects from a CB station install installed in a U haul vehicle, the same type of behavior at issue in the case in violation of the Rules Affecting Obscene and decent profane
language Paragraph bait. We find that Leon apparently will feel repeatedly violated Section three oh one of the Act of these sections, although section ninety five three or five author raates of person operation CB without the grant of an individual license nine Zho five of the rules provide that such operating authority is automatically voided by the
violation of any applicable rules. On June twenty first and twenty twenty two, Leon apparently violated these sections again and the section we talked about today, by using his station to make a thirty minute one way transmission comprised of nonverbal indeciperable sound effects. September twenty eight, twenty twenty two, Leon claimed the source of the unauthorized transmission was a milk crate containing a battery operated CB placed by
an unidentified third party in the at the corner near his house. Okay, so he's blaming his Oh, someone put a CB in a milk crate on my property and that's what's causing those transmissions. Okay. Yeah, You've got like twenty four years here of interfering on CB and apparently the FCC has done nothing about it. Some of these comments on these videos I make, they're, oh, the FCC is never going to do anything. Well, they do, they just don't enforce it very well. So I don't know.
I don't know. If this guy ever wants to go get a passport and he sees these fines from the FCC on his on his record, there's no way he'd be able to get a job that requires some sort of background check or high secret clearance with the government. You know, he's pretty much screwed himself from doing that at all. Even if he never pays it. He's
got these citations on his record. So there's gonna be some sort of something where this is going to come up later on in life, assuming that he's not eighty five years old and just a grumpy old man today, which maybe he is. But the conclusion is accordingly. After applying the Forfeiture Policy Statement, Section one dot eighty of the Commission's Rules and the statutory factors, we
have determined that Leon apparently wilfully and repeatedly violated these sections. Violated sections three I one three thirty three in the sections of ninety five nine through three ninety nine fifty seven of the Commissions Rules. As such, Leon is apparently liable for four fture of twenty five thousand dollars. In order for Leon to pay the proposed furniture, he will have to notify the Office of Field Director feel at FCC dot Cove his intent to pay. Real protent invoice will be posted
to the Commission's registration system at this URL. Upon payment, Leon shall send electronic notification to payment to the office. Payment a forfeiture must be made by credit card. It's payment by wire transfer, so it tells him how to pay. The Commission will not consider reducing or canceling the forfiture in response to a claimable inability to pay unless the petitioner submits the following documentation. This PDF
file doesn't necessarily say what happens if he doesn't pay at all? What's the point? I mean, Hey, go to this guy's house, knock on his door, ask for payment. If he doesn't pay it, put him in jail. How are you going to enforce these types of citations and notifications and violations? How are you going to enforce this if you just issue a statement saying you have to pay this money? Okay, see, it'll be
twenty three years later you still haven't paid it. You know. I think that the FCC needs to make an example of one or two of these of these guys who do this kind of crap. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna actually put you in jail. I don't know. I mean, do you think this guy should go to jail? Do you think they should be more hardcore about actually citing him and collecting that money? What do you think? I'd like to know what you think? Put a comment blow Thanks for watching today