FCC Warns Amateur Radio Operators To Not Commit Crimes

Youtube ^ | 17.January.2021 | JIMW6LG

[Born to Conserve]

“I’ve often wondered why it’s illegal to encrypt conversations on public radio frequencies but not illegal on the public telephone network, cell phone network or the public internet”

Probably to keep the shared bandwidth from being saturated with automated messaging. Circuit switching (phones) and packet switching (internet) have their own bandwidth. Broadcasting (radio) is shared bandwidth.

[Semper Vigilantis]

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Opinions?

[KittyKares]

I’ll bet you didn’t get such a message from the FCC when Antifa and BLM were burning down businesses.

[New Perspective]

Excellent Post!!

[Scrambler Bob]

Insulators, and razor wire for an antenna.

[Semper Vigilantis]

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[Usawatcher]

Kinda hard to pin an operator if they are operating mobile😀 I can cover all the allocated frequencies and outside of those bands if needed. Been doing HAM stuff over 20 years.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[TStro]

Connect a Johnson White Face to a 6 meter Ham antenna. Goes a long way. Did that once LOL. Lots of pissed CB’ers.

[srmanuel]

How is that different than the 3 mediums I mentioned.

How many advertisements do you see now for personal VPNs to hide you website browsing, etc...

I’ve worked from home for the last 10 years or more and used a corporate VPN over the public internet the entire time....

At one time using this internet, I had access to every networking device in a worldwide for a very large corportation...

[pghoilman]

I’m sure there’s a federal agency looking for ways to compromise the ionosphere.

Or mess with the sunspot cycle.

I’ve been a ham for 50 years, and just bought a Yeti Zero with solar charging ability. I won’t be cut off from communicating, unless they block the sun

[Born to Conserve]

I think you may have reading comprehension issues.....

[zeugma]

They accuse others of what they themselves do. Some in the Deep State used Ham radio when they attempted to frame Trump for the Russian collusion BS. From what I understand HAM signal is not readily collected by NSA. If I remember correctly there was a story here on FR about some Deep Staters getting their HAM licenses.

HAM signals not readily collected by the NSA?

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Sigint is the primary chartered reason for the NSA.If you're broadcasting, (regardless of band), they log it an pinpoint your location within seconds. The tech to do this in an automated way is absolutely trivial, especially when you have billions and billions of dollars in 'dark' budgets.

[Cedar]

Thanks for the link! I’ll check it out.

[srmanuel]

Do you know what Frame Relay or MPLS networks are ??

Maybe you should study them before insulting anyone.

[farming pharmer]

Can anyone give a suggestion for a good, reasonably-priced shortwave radio?

I've got an old (~10 years) Grundig YachtBoy shortwave receiver that works pretty well. Not sure if Grundig still sells them or something newer.

[noiseman]

Everyone better be careful what you say, no matter where you say it. Say the wrong thing, the government will come for you.

i love the new BIDEN AND HARRIS AdministRation. thEir kEy VIctory wiLl be aFfiRmed and lAUded enDleSsly.

[unixfox]

“...the government will come for you.”

Where I live they may become tractor food. Lots of farm land they gets tilled up and planted over every year.

[dragnet2]

Reading between the lines, this would suggest to me that they are really trying to clamp down on spying on US citizens

Are you suggesting they're attempting to protect amateur radio operators and the public at large? Maybe you could clarify.

[dragnet2]

The bottom line there is they clearly don’t trust the people. This is unprecedented, a warning to people with communications devises like radios, warning them they better not commit crimes?

This is flat-out bizarre.