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The Ham Radio two point zero Audio
podcast RIP. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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audio clips out of my videos and
upload them to speaker and then from there

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they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud
and now Amazon Audible as well. But

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I want to welcome you and thank
you for joining the audio section of this

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series on Ham Radio. I hope
you enjoy it, and I would appreciate

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you leaving us a comment or review
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Thank you in seventy three, hope
you enjoy it. GMRS users, the

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FCC is continuing its summer crackdown on
personal radio violation and citations and issuances of

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stop its. Check it out.
So the last video we did was about

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a malfunctioning repeater, and a lot
of the comments I got on that video,

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which were very accurate, was that
it sounds like the repeater was malfunctioning.

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It wasn't harmful intent It wasn't intentionally
trying to disturb the GMRS airwaves or

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anything like that. It wasn't malicious, and I would agree with that.

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I would agree that the last story
we shared was somewhat of a faulty or

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malfunctioning equipment type story. So this
story here is actually for malicious interference,

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or so they claim. I especially
like this psychedelic Austin powers thing to have

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going on here in the website,
but I don't know. Again, this

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is from nottcommag dot com. You
can subscribe to notatcommag and get all kinds

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of radio stories throughout all of the
two way wireless radio world, so check

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that out if you can. The
FCC is continuing their summer long crackdown on

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violations by personal radio users, in
other words, not business radio users.

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Yet another operator has been issued an
official notice by the agency, So an

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official notice, no citation, no
fine has been issued, at least that's

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how I read that. So first, the general Mobile Radio service licensee in

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Washington State received a notice of violation
from the FCC back in June June of

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twenty twenty three after agents discovered his
mountaintop repeater transmitting continuous unmodulated signals on four

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sixty two dot seventy twenty five.
Okay, I get a lot of comments

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when I put up videos like this
about how the FCC doesn't care and the

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FCC doesn't do anything. You're never
gonna get caught. Blah blah, blah

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blah blah. You know what,
I think you're probably about ninety five percent

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accurate when you say that. However, it's a it's a piss poor attitude

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in my opinion. So it's not
that they don't care. It's not that

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they never do anything. They do
things like we're about to see here,

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and they do care, at least
as far as much as their bottom line

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goes. They just don't have the
manpower or the budget to crack down all

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all this stuff as much much as
they could. I guess I don't know

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if they want to or not.
The second story here is NatCom mag reported

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last week a Tennessee c Beer was
sited sighted by the FCC after he was

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found to be running excessive power in
channel twenty two in August, resulting in

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interference in consumer devices as well as
amateur radio equipment that wasn't approved for citizens

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band. I have a video on
that upcoming, so we'll be able to

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watch another video about that layer.
Now we have learned that the FCC has

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issued a notice a violation. Again, this is just a notice to a

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GMRS licensee in Stelton, Pennsylvania.
According to the FCC, the agency investigated

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interference complaints to complaints to a GMRS
repeater in Mount Holly, Pennsylvania. So

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who's complaining this? Insert Sad Ham
comment here. I've noticed that Ham's always

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get blamed for complaining. You folks
who own your own GMRS repeaters, if

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you have someone intentionally causing interference on
your repeater that you paid for, you're

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not going to complain about it.
Really, why'd you spend all that money

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on a GMRS repeater to put it
up on a tower for people to use

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and then have someone come along and
cause interference or usual to lead legally and

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not complain about it? Do you
own a GMRIS repeater? I'd like to

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know in the comments blow put a
comment blow. From six to ten pm

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on August third, and from ten
am to one pm on August seventh,

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FCC agents monitor for six to two
DOT six to five Mount Holly repeater observed

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intentional interference being transmitted on the repeater's
input frequency. Agents track down the interference

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to Jonathan Gutierrez licensee WRTD two five
nine Whiskey Radio Tango Delta two five nine.

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In this Notice a violation sent to
Gutieris, agents said they monitor the

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licensee transmitting music continuous tones on the
input frequency, blocking other users from using

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the repeater. In addition, upon
inspection, FCC agents said that Gutierras was

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transmitting with a radio that was not
approved for use under Part ninety five of

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the FCC's Rules and Regulations. So
what I have said before, what I

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said in the last video, and
what a lot of you came along and

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commented on the last video, is
don't be a jackass on the air,

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and they probably won't ever say anything
to you about your non compliant radio.

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This guy obviously had a non compliant
radio, but that's not what they caught

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him for. They caught him for
being a jackass on the air, transmitting

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music and tones and interfering with this
repeater. If I was the repeater owner,

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I would be reporting this guy,
whether I was a ham or not.

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If I buy a repeater and an
antenna and the proper co acts for

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it, and I spend time and
money to put up that repeater, antenna

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and coax on a tower site somewhere, perhaps I'm renting the tower site.

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Perhaps I'm connecting Internet to it that
I'm paying a monthly search charge for to

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get Internet connected to it. Because
a lot of these GMRS repeaters, they're

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asterisks connecteds, an Asterix phone system
of VoIP voice over Internet Protocol phone system

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that's used in all Star, which
is a ham radio system that we use

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to interconnect repeaters together over the Internet. GMRS has something very so it's basically

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the same thing. Actually, So
if you're paying for Internet at the repeater

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site, there's an expense that's involved
in putting all of that together, hardware

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expense, monthly service charges, perhaps
for the tower space, perhaps for the

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Internet service. But there's an expense
to that. So you don't want people

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coming by and just stomping on it
disrespectfully. I would like to know if

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you would report someone if you heard
intentional interference on your repeater. Put a

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comment below. If you are putting
up a GMRS base station radio or a

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GMRS radio in your vehicle, or
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Lastly, the FCC letter cites Gutierras
for transmitting without identifying his call signing

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on the air while causing interference.
Now, another statement I made in a

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previous video is that you're supposed to
transmit your call sign every ten minutes.

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If you have a call sign GMRS
or HAM, you're supposed to transmit every

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ten minutes as a form of ID. Some people came along and corrected me

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and said that at GMRS it's actually
fifteen minutes. I look that up and

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that it's correct. For HAM radio
it's ten minutes. For GMRS it's fifteen

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minutes. Regardless of the timeframe.
I have spoken to people at overland shows

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before and told them you're always supposed
to ID when you first transmit, within

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the first couple minutes of your transmission, and when you sign off in every

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fifteen minutes. As it turns out, you're supposed to ID your call sign,

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your GMRS call sign while transmitting on
GMRS frequencies. And people don't know

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that it's right there in the form
that you sign when you go online and

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purchase your GMRS call sign for thirty
five dollars for ten years to make you

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scroll down through this page thing for
a long way and make you sign the

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form electronically that you you agree with
the policies and procedures behind GMRS radio users,

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and part of that is iding your
call sign ever fifteen minutes. Nobody

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reads that. I didn't read it, okay, but I know how to

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use a radio. I know what
FCC stipulations there are out there already,

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So I always ID anyway because I'm
used to it, and I've been doing

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it for years and years with my
Ham radio license. In fact, sometimes

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I've put my Ham radio license on
GMRS by mistake, just because I'm so

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used to saying it. But you
are required to ID with your GMRS ID

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every fifteen minutes on repeaters or on
simplex either one. Now, most of

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the time on simplex, people aren't
going to say anything because you're not making

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it. You're just talking in a
very limited range. But when you're talking

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on a repeater that's rebroadcasting retransmitting to
a larger area, it's a little bit

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more important. And the FCC caught
this guy not iding properly. The license

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was given twenty days by the FCC
to submit a written response to the complaint.

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He was directed to explain each violation
and steps taken to correct the violations

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with timelines. In its letter,
the FCC adds that further action, if

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warranted, couldn't include issuance of a
notice of apparent liability for forfeiture, which

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would involve possible fines, So,
in other words, they would take away

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his license. Guys like that probably
don't care about a license. He probably

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keep transmitting anyway. But he has
a license. We shared his call sign

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here just a moment ago, so
he has a license. He didn't use

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his ID. But if he doesn't
respond to this citation, or if they

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don't accept his response, then they
might take away his license and issue a

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fine. I would like to see
a follow up on this twenty days.

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This article is less than twenty days
old. At the time of this recording,

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this article is about five days old, so in about two weeks,

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I'd like to follow up and see
if there's any kind of progress, if

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he's responded with a written letter,
if they've accepted his response, which even

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if he responds in twenty days,
is going to take the FCC a while,

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a few weeks, a couple of
months or something like that to actually

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take action to respond to his response, as it were. So I don't

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know what do you think, those
of you who has spent your own money

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on GMRS hardware and tower space and
whatnot. Do you report people when you

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hear harmful interference or someone you in
your repeater without a call sign correctly,

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or someone maybe using it illegally because
they don't have a call sign at all.

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Do you report that? I mean, I would. It doesn't have

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anything to do with sad hand.
I know sad ham is a it's a

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funny term, okay, all right, yeah, blah blah blah blah.

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But every time I talk about something
like this, I get a lot more

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hateful comments from the GMRS crowd than
I do the HAM crowd, because this

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directly affects the GMRS crowd. I
am both. I have a HAM license

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and a GMRS license. So would
I report someone if I put up a

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repeater. If I spent several hundred
dollars on a repeater, hardline, coats,

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antenna, et cetera, and someone
came along and abused it, Yeah,

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I'd report them. I sure would, and I wonder if you would

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too. Put a comment below