Posted on 01/19/2021 10:11:46 AM PST by farming pharmer
Radio operator discussing letter from ARRL re:newest FCC diktat.
Wow-
Interesting
This is just to scare Hams and show the FCCs support for the new regime.
Don’t Commit Crime, Government Dislikes Competition
Yes! what’s her name used a ham radio to commit a crime again trump on the Russian coup hoax!! Bitch was given a pass!
Actually, probably in the eyes of the untrusting government we are all likely to break the law. We cannot be trusted with freedom and liberty.
I’ve been a Ham Operator since 1976, hold an Amateur Extra and a Commercial radio license. Also ran a Navy/Marine Corp MARS station out of my home for 19 years.
Hams are the best emergency communication systems in time of disaster. I don’t know a single Ham Operator that is a criminal.
This is the dumbest -warning- I have ever read.
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Here is what you need to be aware of, the source:
Rosemary Harold
Rosemary C. Harold is Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, where she leads the Commission’s largest organizational unit, including its field offices around the country. Ms. Harold rejoins the agency from Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP, where she was a partner. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Ms. Harold was a legal advisor to then-FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell for media and broadband issues and deputy chief of the FCC’s Media Bureau. She began her career as a journalist, working as a reporter and bureau chief for the Miami Herald and an editor at C-SPAN. She earned her law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, her master’s degree from the University of Missouri, and her bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary.
https://www.fcc.gov/eb-harold-bio
Note: **”She began her career as a journalist”**
What they are referring to are the almost daily posts asking how Ham Radio operators can keep people connected.
This has been happening all over the net.
It was also pretty clear people were using the little 5 watt 2 meter radios during the Capitol event on the 6th.
The FCC isn’t going to “stop” anything, except maybe repeaters. I don’t think any operator is going to announce their call sign every ten minutes. If they are engaging in that...and they state their call sign, they are too stupid to trust with a radio.
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
Everyone better be careful what you say, no matter where you say it. Say the wrong thing, the government will come for you.
Reading between the lines, this would suggest to me that they are really trying to clamp down on spying on US citizens, and don’t have anything nearly as handy and automatic to data-mine for RF communication like they do with modern digital cellular traffic and internet communication.
Nelly Ohr's HAM radio operator's licence (awarded on May 23, 2016)
And you’re surprised? It should be obvious to all by now that laws only apply to Trump supporters.
Of course they don’t and there are plenty of bootleggers on the amateur radio bands already. The FCC has zero intent of finding and shutting them. If they really intended to clean up the amateur radio bands, they’d be bolstering the enforcement mechanism. instead they decide that they’re going to create a volunteer organization with the ARRL and think that will solve the problem. It will not. The FCC is nothing more than a paper tiger at this point. I wonder why I even bothered to study and get my license 15 years ago.
Our greatest threat to our country, freedoms, and wellbeing, is none other than the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government, which BTW IS THE SWAMP AKA THE DEEP STATE. (Everybody around here decries the Swamp and the Deep State and nobody defines them. Well I just did.)
DIMNANTLE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BEFORE THEY DISMANTLE YOU!!!!
Some of the hams are probably disposed to commit the crime of free speech.
Translation: “Censor yourself so that the incoming government won’t have to.”
This is the dumbest -warning- I have ever read.
Have been a ham radio operator, Extra Class, for over 30 years. Completely agree. The government has been overthrown and we now have a totalitarian government run by Democrats. I posted several times some time ago that the FEDERAL AGENCIES were the problem. Few responded or paid attention. I told all of you.
Excellent point. They have pretty good control over the Internet and cellphone communication. Well, much better than they did before.
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