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Thank you in seventy three, hope you enjoy it. GMRS users, the
FCC is continuing its summer crackdown on personal radio violation and citations and issuances of
stop its. Check it out. So the last video we did was about
a malfunctioning repeater, and a lot of the comments I got on that video,
which were very accurate, was that it sounds like the repeater was malfunctioning.
It wasn't harmful intent It wasn't intentionally trying to disturb the GMRS airwaves or
anything like that. It wasn't malicious, and I would agree with that.
I would agree that the last story we shared was somewhat of a faulty or
malfunctioning equipment type story. So this story here is actually for malicious interference,
or so they claim. I especially like this psychedelic Austin powers thing to have
going on here in the website, but I don't know. Again, this
is from nottcommag dot com. You can subscribe to notatcommag and get all kinds
of radio stories throughout all of the two way wireless radio world, so check
that out if you can. The FCC is continuing their summer long crackdown on
violations by personal radio users, in other words, not business radio users.
Yet another operator has been issued an official notice by the agency, So an
official notice, no citation, no fine has been issued, at least that's
how I read that. So first, the general Mobile Radio service licensee in
Washington State received a notice of violation from the FCC back in June June of
twenty twenty three after agents discovered his mountaintop repeater transmitting continuous unmodulated signals on four
sixty two dot seventy twenty five. Okay, I get a lot of comments
when I put up videos like this about how the FCC doesn't care and the
FCC doesn't do anything. You're never gonna get caught. Blah blah, blah
blah blah. You know what, I think you're probably about ninety five percent
accurate when you say that. However, it's a it's a piss poor attitude
in my opinion. So it's not that they don't care. It's not that
they never do anything. They do things like we're about to see here,
and they do care, at least as far as much as their bottom line
goes. They just don't have the manpower or the budget to crack down all
all this stuff as much much as they could. I guess I don't know
if they want to or not. The second story here is NatCom mag reported
last week a Tennessee c Beer was sited sighted by the FCC after he was
found to be running excessive power in channel twenty two in August, resulting in
interference in consumer devices as well as amateur radio equipment that wasn't approved for citizens
band. I have a video on that upcoming, so we'll be able to
watch another video about that layer. Now we have learned that the FCC has
issued a notice a violation. Again, this is just a notice to a
GMRS licensee in Stelton, Pennsylvania. According to the FCC, the agency investigated
interference complaints to complaints to a GMRS repeater in Mount Holly, Pennsylvania. So
who's complaining this? Insert Sad Ham comment here. I've noticed that Ham's always
get blamed for complaining. You folks who own your own GMRS repeaters, if
you have someone intentionally causing interference on your repeater that you paid for, you're
not going to complain about it. Really, why'd you spend all that money
on a GMRS repeater to put it up on a tower for people to use
and then have someone come along and cause interference or usual to lead legally and
not complain about it? Do you own a GMRIS repeater? I'd like to
know in the comments blow put a comment blow. From six to ten pm
on August third, and from ten am to one pm on August seventh,
FCC agents monitor for six to two DOT six to five Mount Holly repeater observed
intentional interference being transmitted on the repeater's input frequency. Agents track down the interference
to Jonathan Gutierrez licensee WRTD two five nine Whiskey Radio Tango Delta two five nine.
In this Notice a violation sent to Gutieris, agents said they monitor the
licensee transmitting music continuous tones on the input frequency, blocking other users from using
the repeater. In addition, upon inspection, FCC agents said that Gutierras was
transmitting with a radio that was not approved for use under Part ninety five of
the FCC's Rules and Regulations. So what I have said before, what I
said in the last video, and what a lot of you came along and
commented on the last video, is don't be a jackass on the air,
and they probably won't ever say anything to you about your non compliant radio.
This guy obviously had a non compliant radio, but that's not what they caught
him for. They caught him for being a jackass on the air, transmitting
music and tones and interfering with this repeater. If I was the repeater owner,
I would be reporting this guy, whether I was a ham or not.
If I buy a repeater and an antenna and the proper co acts for
it, and I spend time and money to put up that repeater, antenna
and coax on a tower site somewhere, perhaps I'm renting the tower site.
Perhaps I'm connecting Internet to it that I'm paying a monthly search charge for to
get Internet connected to it. Because a lot of these GMRS repeaters, they're
asterisks connecteds, an Asterix phone system of VoIP voice over Internet Protocol phone system
that's used in all Star, which is a ham radio system that we use
to interconnect repeaters together over the Internet. GMRS has something very so it's basically
the same thing. Actually, So if you're paying for Internet at the repeater
site, there's an expense that's involved in putting all of that together, hardware
expense, monthly service charges, perhaps for the tower space, perhaps for the
Internet service. But there's an expense to that. So you don't want people
coming by and just stomping on it disrespectfully. I would like to know if
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Lastly, the FCC letter cites Gutierras for transmitting without identifying his call signing
on the air while causing interference. Now, another statement I made in a
previous video is that you're supposed to transmit your call sign every ten minutes.
If you have a call sign GMRS or HAM, you're supposed to transmit every
ten minutes as a form of ID. Some people came along and corrected me
and said that at GMRS it's actually fifteen minutes. I look that up and
that it's correct. For HAM radio it's ten minutes. For GMRS it's fifteen
minutes. Regardless of the timeframe. I have spoken to people at overland shows
before and told them you're always supposed to ID when you first transmit, within
the first couple minutes of your transmission, and when you sign off in every
fifteen minutes. As it turns out, you're supposed to ID your call sign,
your GMRS call sign while transmitting on GMRS frequencies. And people don't know
that it's right there in the form that you sign when you go online and
purchase your GMRS call sign for thirty five dollars for ten years to make you
scroll down through this page thing for a long way and make you sign the
form electronically that you you agree with the policies and procedures behind GMRS radio users,
and part of that is iding your call sign ever fifteen minutes. Nobody
reads that. I didn't read it, okay, but I know how to
use a radio. I know what FCC stipulations there are out there already,
So I always ID anyway because I'm used to it, and I've been doing
it for years and years with my Ham radio license. In fact, sometimes
I've put my Ham radio license on GMRS by mistake, just because I'm so
used to saying it. But you are required to ID with your GMRS ID
every fifteen minutes on repeaters or on simplex either one. Now, most of
the time on simplex, people aren't going to say anything because you're not making
it. You're just talking in a very limited range. But when you're talking
on a repeater that's rebroadcasting retransmitting to a larger area, it's a little bit
more important. And the FCC caught this guy not iding properly. The license
was given twenty days by the FCC to submit a written response to the complaint.
He was directed to explain each violation and steps taken to correct the violations
with timelines. In its letter, the FCC adds that further action, if
warranted, couldn't include issuance of a notice of apparent liability for forfeiture, which
would involve possible fines, So, in other words, they would take away
his license. Guys like that probably don't care about a license. He probably
keep transmitting anyway. But he has a license. We shared his call sign
here just a moment ago, so he has a license. He didn't use
his ID. But if he doesn't respond to this citation, or if they
don't accept his response, then they might take away his license and issue a
fine. I would like to see a follow up on this twenty days.
This article is less than twenty days old. At the time of this recording,
this article is about five days old, so in about two weeks,
I'd like to follow up and see if there's any kind of progress, if
he's responded with a written letter, if they've accepted his response, which even
if he responds in twenty days, is going to take the FCC a while,
a few weeks, a couple of months or something like that to actually
take action to respond to his response, as it were. So I don't
know what do you think, those of you who has spent your own money
on GMRS hardware and tower space and whatnot. Do you report people when you
hear harmful interference or someone you in your repeater without a call sign correctly,
or someone maybe using it illegally because they don't have a call sign at all.
Do you report that? I mean, I would. It doesn't have
anything to do with sad hand. I know sad ham is a it's a
funny term, okay, all right, yeah, blah blah blah blah.
But every time I talk about something like this, I get a lot more
hateful comments from the GMRS crowd than I do the HAM crowd, because this
directly affects the GMRS crowd. I am both. I have a HAM license
and a GMRS license. So would I report someone if I put up a
repeater. If I spent several hundred dollars on a repeater, hardline, coats,
antenna, et cetera, and someone came along and abused it, Yeah,
I'd report them. I sure would, and I wonder if you would
too. Put a comment below