E1547: My Thoughts on: FCC Deregulation - delete, delete, delete

sign up today and thank you for the support. The public notice from the Department of Governmental Efficiency DOGE and this FCC document entitled Delete Delete Delete. It is document number twenty five DASH one three three. What are my thoughts? There's beend several videos on this subject, and I've commented on a few of those videos. I wanted to give you my thoughts on what I think about this whole

thing and where we're going to see it go. There's a lot of speculation, a lot of stuff that the document doesn't talk about, so but I wanted to address it head on because I'm getting a lot of questions. So here's what I think. Today's video is sponsored by spe Expert Amplifiers check out their website. Mtcradio dot com

from Main Trading Company in the USA. Okay, So the document that started all of these, and I've seen two, maybe three videos from different YouTube channels specifically about this document and how it may or may not affect amateur radio license. This is a public notice. It was released in March twelfth of twenty twenty five, so less than a week ago at the time of this recording. It's

titled reason in Reason Delete Delete Delete. Okay. Now, I must say this, as a general rule, I am all for smaller government, less government intrusion and personal lives, and just less government power. In a general sense, talking very high level here, I am not in favor of abolishing the FCC completely, and I'm not in favor of just free banding every radio frequency spectrum out there. So I'm going to get into that. I'm gonna explain a little bit what I mean by that. But I wanted to

kind of start here where this document started. And this is a pretty long document. You guys have probably read this already, and if you haven't, I will link it in the description. Blow. Okay, there's a lot of different things in here mentioned. One thing I will say first off is that nowhere in this document is amateur radio

specifically mentioned. It mentions nothing about amateur radio licensing. It mentions nothing about GMRS licensing, and mentions nothing about CB radio being free banned because it used to be back in the day, thirty forty years ago, used to have a license to get on CB radio, citizens band radios the same frequencies. They just they gave you a license. I don't remember if you had to pay for it or not. But nothing like that is mentioned in this document. Okay.

Through a series of executive orders, President Trump has called on administrative agencies to unleash prosperity through deregulation and ensure that they are efficiency delivering great results for the American people. So this is Elon's email to everybody saying, Hey, send me five things you did this week. Cool. You know, by this public notice, the FCC is taking action to

promote policies outlined by President Trump in those executive orders. Specifically, we are seeking public input on identifying FCC rules for the purpose of alleviating and unnecessary regulatory burdens. Now there is a link to voice your public opinion and I will put that in the description. Blow. But we seek comment on deregulatory initiatives that would facilitate and encourage American firms investments in modernizing their networks, developing infrastructure offering innovative

and advanced capabilities. The Communications Act directs the FCC to regularly review its rules to identify and eliminate those that are unnecessary in the light of the current circumstances, recognizing that, in addition to imposing unnecessary burdens, unnecesary rules may stand in the way of deal development, expansion, competition, and technological innovation. Now that again, amateur radio is not mentioned in this article. However, I will say this the way I read, and this

is open to interpretation. This is open to interpretation, and you might not read this the same way that I read the Communications I think they might be talking about the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four. There's not a footnote down there that says it says the Communications Act. There's a kid, there's a Wireless Communications Act of nineteen thirty four that's often referred to in these types of documents.

So right here it says the Communications Act directs the FCC to regularly review its rules to identify and eliminate those that are unnecessary in the light of current circumstances. In other words, times change as the years go by, recognizing that in addition to imposing unnecessary burdens, imposing unnecessary burdens, unnecessary rules may stand in the way of development, expansion, competition,

and technological innovation. So the way I read that is that amateur radio licensing is a good thing because amateur radio licensing has always been regulated with the worldwide goodwill in mind. It's always been about international good will. It's

always been about a worldwide effort. And I'm going to talk about the International Telecommunications Union ITU, and I'm going to talk about it the other a couple other agencies and what my thoughts are on that, so that we're going to get into that here in just a second. But stand in the way of development, spansion, competition, and technological innovation. Every nation, every civilized nation, some uncivilized nations in the world, has some sort of amateur radio licensing.

One of the things that hams seek after and compete for, compete with yourself more than anybody, is to see how many DX entities you can work. DX entity just simply means another country outside of the USA, and in some regards, Alaska and Hawaii are considered DX entities because they're not actually attached to the Continental USA, and even Canada, which is in Mexico, which are attached to the Continental USA,

are considered DX entities. So contacting these worldwide countries all over the planet and entities, and last count I had there was like three hundred and fifty of them. I got a good friend of mine that's worked three hundred and forty nine out of the three hundred and fifty. He's worked all of them except one, which is North Korea, which is apparently really very hard to get for reasons that you should already know and I won't go into. So international goodwill is has always been an act behind

amateur radio and amateur radio licensing. So I don't read that as something that would be like, hey, let's just get rid of licensing, let's just get rid of it that way anybody can do whatever they want. No, that

would be an unnecessary rule. That my standard the way of development, expansion, competition, and technological innovation because amateur radio historically that may or may not be true today, but him MCHI radio historically has always been on the forefront of technology, and I think that a lot of people who don't understand amage radio don't understand that it's actually kind of still there. But again, that might be different story for a different day. So a couple of things

real quick. I want to start at the beginning, and I apologize if this video is going to be longer than normal. Well, I want to start at the beginning, okay. And I went to chat GPT and I was like, hey, chat GPT, now, now let me say this first off, say the first thing I'm gonna say about this. I asked chat GPT this question yesterday, and then I asked chat GPT the same question today and it gave a slightly different answer. So I'm not a one hundred percent

sure how accurate this is. But I did do about the last half hour. I did some Google searching, I read some articles. I'm gonna share those links with you, and for the most part, I think this is fairly accurate. Some of this information historically is ambiguous, and I think it's just because no one ever recorded it, but some of it is accurate. So what was the first amateur radio call sign issued in the USA. The first amateur radio call sign issued in the USA, according to chat GPT,

was onew This was assigned to Alfred CW. Lee CW was its middle initials. Okay, good, yeah, no coincidence there. In nineteen twelve, following the introduction of the first formal licensing system for amateur radio operators by the US government, the issuance of ONEAW marked the beginning of amateur radio regulation in the US, which is formalized by the patches of the Wireless Shipped Act of nineteen ten of the

Radioact of nineteen twelve. Okay, this predates the ABURL, this predates the FCC, And then when did amateur radio call signs go global? This information here was accurate from Chap GPT both yesterday and today. Amateur radio call signs became global in nineteen twenty seven when the ITU standardized the allocation of call signs for MSIUR radio operators worldwide. This was part of the broader effort to organize and regulate

global radio communications. Before this standardization, amateur radio operators had their own systems in practice for assigning call signs, often within their own countries. The ITU's involvement helped establish a consistent system that assigned different country prefixes, such as W for the United States, G four the United Kingdom VK for Australia, et cetera amateur radio operators, allowing for clearer and more coordinated communications across borders. This move significantly enhanced

international communication and cooperation among amateur radio operators worldwide. Statement that I would agree with right there, So outside of the USA, I decided to ask it, Hey, what was the first ever amateur radio call sign? I have a point to this, so bear with me. The very first amateur radio call sign ever was issued was worldwide was a A. Your call sign is a Hey Alpha. Your call sign is A assigned to Reginald A. Pheesenden, a pioneering

Canadian inventor and engineer and radio operator. He is often regarded as one of the fathers of modern wireless communication. Feessenden was granted his call sign in nineteen hundred, long before the formal nationalization and international licensing systems were established. He used this call sign for his experimental radio stations. He worked to lay the foundation for much of modern radio,

including the first voice transmission over radio. Later amateur radio licenses systems became formalized in the nineteen tens and nineteen twenties. A can be considered the very first amateur radio call sign in the world. The Federal Communications Commission the FCC was established on June nineteenth, nineteen thirty four, with the passage to the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four. This is the Communications Act I think they were talking about earlier.

FCC was created to regulate interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. It took over many responsibilities previously held by the FRC Federal Radio Commission, which had been established in

nineteen twenty seven to regulate radio communications. FCC's creation helped bring a more structure to the rapid legal and field of communications, including both commercial broadcasting the amateur radio, and it played a major role in shaping modern telecommunications policies in the USA. So, in other words, I have said this before and said this many times. Amateur radio license existed prior to the FCC. People like to gripe about the FCC. They like to complain about the FCC, And

the FCC is responsible for issuing licenses in the USA today. Okay, they are responsible for that. But if you were to get rid of the FCC to moral which I don't really agree with that, But if you were to get rid of the FCC completely moral, it wouldn't affect amateur radio license necessarily in the way that some people think it might. It would affect something, sure, but not necessarily

in the way that some people think that it might. Oh, just get rid of everything and leveryone go free band now, because it wasn't freebanded before the FCC was here, So it's not going to be free banned after the FCC. There's plenty of options out there for free band, and that those frequencies can range from country to country, from

continent to continent. But amateur radio has always existed prior to the FCC, prior to the Federal Radio Commission in the United States, and it exists globally internationally across the entire planet. Some other googles so it says. Before the Radioact of nineteen twelve, amateur radio operators in the USA used self assigned call signs, often industrials, like hiring Percy

Maxim's s n Y in nineteen eleven. After licensing began, the government assigned call signs, initially a number followed by two letters like one WH or something like that. Pre nineteen twelve, self assigned call Signs Radioact of nineteen twelvement government government issued call signs, evolution of call signs. Some good stuff on Google right here that I found, So

that was good. There's also a good article I found here called the Storied History of the Ham Radio call Sign by Mike ritz W seven vo written in August of twenty seventeen. This is a good read right here. I will put a link to this in the description Blow. You guys can go check that out. Again. I didn't check it for historical accuracy. He does quote several he has a bibliography at the bottom there and quotes several links to where he got his information from. So there

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on this, and I'm going to start here. So Josh did this video and he was you guys, go watch Josh's video, but he was kind enough to post to pin my comment to his video. I didn't ask him to, he just did it. And my comment here, which is what I've been talking about so far in this video. Okay, people forget that licensing testing outdates the FCC. They are more of an ITU International Telecommunications Union and IAARU the International Amateur Radio Union thing. Other regulations that we face

can be deleted. Sure, I am usually for deregulation overall, but some comments will probably be about making ham radio bands free band and I don't support that. And that was my comment on his video, and I had about seventeen replies to it. So Josh commented here, He's like, I wanted to tie this international agreements, but at the rate we're walking away from agreements in O there airs. I'm not sure how well it would stick. Follow up video. Okay, this guy says what KQ four l en Z says, No,

I don't support that either. A Droit nineteen eleven says, why don't you support it? And this is kind of the point I wanted to talk about here because this guy and I don't know who this person is, but he had some good comments, not bad mouthing anyone, he had some really good comments, So I appreciate his comments there. I was trying to get rid of that thing on the right, but I can't. Why don't you support it?

And I said, why should I support it? There's plenty of freeband options already available, and anyone is able to get a Ham radio license. A lot of people forget that. A lot of people, oh, Ham radio is an exclusive club. No, it's really not, because you can go get a license. Everyone has the ability to go get a Ham radio license, unless you're like a hardened criminal, okay, like a sexual predator of some sort. Okay, everyone can go get an

amateur radio license, okay for the most part. And I say, I go on to say it's more open to everyone. Nearly eight hundred thousand US citizens have taken the time to learn the material and get their license. Giving it away would be an insult to them, similar to forgiving student loans. That's another political topic I don't want to get into today, but that's how I feel. And he says, I don't think you actually answered my question. Uh yeah, I did. I get that it would hurt people's feelings

that spend money on getting a permission slip. Okay, So, first of all, hurt people's feelings and permission slip makes me think that this guy is not really serious. He's talking in troll language here, okay, but what he's saying is not entirely wrong. I just you know. Okay, Well, let's continue, and I understand why the government wants people to get those slips. Aside from hurt feelings, why not

support deregulation? And I replied back to him, as I originally stated, licensing has nothing to do with the government. It existed before the government, before the FCC. Okay, as I just read to you, that's what this guy's not getting. It existed prior to the FCC. Amateur radio is a worldwide effort. Other countries have some sort of license. Most of them are actually harder to get and cost more than and have less privileges than what we do inside

the USA. Hurt feelings aren't even a factor to me. Lots of people worked to get their license, and everyone else can do the same thing. This isn't a participation trophy hobby. Work for it and you'll get it. You are smart enough to do it. And I'm talking directly to this guy when I said this, you are smart enough to do it. And right here he replies back to me, he's like, well, already have my permission slips.

So he's claiming he has a ham radio license. Okay, good, and you still have to give me and you still haven't have yet to give me an answer. I've given him an answer twice now. He just doesn't like what I'm saying. Others have said that it could happen to the door having open more frequencies and sold on privileges. That's why they don't support regulation. Why don't you So he's talking about having the sell off our spectrum in

our bandwidth to other corporations or something like that. Okay, And I replied by a like Finally, I was like, look, man, you call it in a permission slip. Makes me think you aren't serious. But I'll play a long I do support deregulation. I support taking licensing completely away from the FCC and giving it back to Ham's. As I've said this before. I'm not sure why you think I'm not

answering you. But again, your comments are moretroll like and less than serious than I prefer, but also impossible to sense a tone over text. He says, I call the driver's license permission slips as well. It's because of my view and the government wanting to believe that they control free people. Okay, this get so I get this comment a lot. Free men don't ask permission. Government control, yeah, government control is a real thing. It's a real thing

I'm against. Okay, but there's such a thing as government control. Too much government control and complete anarchy, and we've got to figure out where in the middle we want this. Licensing is not bad. Licensing's not bad. You have to have a license to drive a car, and the reason you have to have a license to drive a car is because you're driving on publicly funded roads. Okay, you don't have to have a license to own a car,

or if you own one hundred acres of land. You don't have to have a license to drive a car on your own property. So some people like an amateur radio license. Well I don't you know, anybody can get driver's license. Sometimes people and I'm like, well, actually, you don't have to have a driver's license to buy a car and drive it on your own property. You only have to have a license to drive it on publicly funded roads state local city government and city county roads,

state roads, federal in interstate highways, whatever. But the airwaves are opened everybody, and the airwaves are opened everybody. Okay, so well there's no publiclyfunded airwaves, true, but we do have a limited spectrum of frequencies on the airwave. And like I said a minute ago, since it's an international and global effort amateur radio licensing, it's good that it's

regulated to a certain degree. To a certain degree, I don't want to take anything away from anyone, but I don't want to give everything for free to everyone either. And this comment here by this judlement is pretty good. One of the main reasons for the ITU agreement in HF communication is HF communications are worldwide, open, no regulated, non licensed operations on HF and MF isn't affecting radio users in just the USA. They can affect every country

and every radio user in the world. Many that want licensing refer to VHFUHS and SHF. It would be really devastating to the world radio community for one country to open rogue HF communication not just amateur it's still a primary means of communications that makes many places in many places around the world. Just because it's not here in the US. I don't believe it would be very responsible to free band amateur radio bands without the agreement of

the ITU. My opinion is that we won't see any changes to amateur radio, at least not HF and MF. As far as vhfuh go, the bands are almost dead. Well again, I don't really think that the bands are dead in VHFUHF. It might be where he is, but it's not like that everywhere. I've been in amateur for thirty years and been in commercial radio for twent five plus years. If the government does drop licensing requirements for amateur radio, please pass the word to the lids that

have the equipment available cheap. That's good, okay, And then some guy other some other guy fires back at him and about deregulation and whatnot. So a few more comments there. I'll share a link to all that in the description. Blow all of that to say, is this. As I said in the beginning, this document does not say anything about there's this is a lot of speculation. This document does not say anything about deregulating specifically amateur radio licensing.

It doesn't even mention amateur radio licensing. It's just talking about the FCC. So everybody's like, what does that mean? And it's a good question. It's a good it's good to openly discuss what it does say, but it's probably not good to spect to overspeculate on what it doesn't say. And that's kind of my take on the whole thing. Okay, I wanted to I mean, I this is again, this is a longer video than I intended it to be.

But amateur radio licensing in the UN and worldwide existed prior to the FCCFCC only controls the USA, anyway, Every country around the world has some sort of amateur radio licensing. Sometimes it's hard to get, sometimes it's expensive to get, and in the USA we actually have it pretty easy compared you know, compared to the globally, to the global, to our global neighbors and other countries around the world. So do I support deregulation to a certain degree? Do

I support free banding the mateur radio bands? No? No, I don't go use CB radio. CB radio is HF. Guess what HF is from three to thirty megahertz and CB radio is around twenty six twenty seven megaherts. So CB radio is HF. Go use CB radio if you want to use HF on a free band network. That's my thoughts. I would let to know what you think. Put a comment in the description. Blow Thanks for watching.