I’ve been tempted to get some better radios than the Motorola Walkabouts to use for my work - out in the woods and away from other users so I can’t imagine I would be interfering with anything. But - it sure looks like a hassle to get an FCC license. But if I don’t and get caught, it could be a huge fine - tens of thousands of dollars iirc. So I stick with the Walkabouts. Of course when one falls into the water I don’t feel as bad about it.
Yes, let the FCC do what it was supposed to do. One example, the FCC may, sometime lift its antiquated symbol rate (baud) restriction on the HF ham bands. Every other country has long since removed the old 300 baud limit. The FCC simply hasn’t kept up with RF technology.
“A clearing house for frequency assignment and deal with interference issues”
yep. that’s pretty much all that’s really needed in terms of regulation.