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and thank you for the support. The

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FCC has issued, this time an
eighteen thousand dollars fine to an amateur radio

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operator for willfully interfering with a repeater, so we're going to look at that

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right now. The point of this
video is because I received a comment on

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my three thousand dollars fine video for
a CB operator refusing inspection, and it

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said, hey, they rarely mess
with ham radio operators, so if you're

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a CB guide, then go get
your hand radio license and they'll never mess

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with you. I'm like, I
don't really think that's true. So I

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did some digging and it actually did
not take long to find two different stories,

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and I'm gonna share one of them
with you today. This is from

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twenty nineteen, so it was a
couple of years ago, but it's fairly

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recent, Okay. A New York
radio amateur, Harold gerretzki K six DPZ

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of Richmond Hill, is facing a
seventeen thousand dollars fine imposed by the FCC.

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He was issued a notice of apparent
liability for forfeiture and NL on October

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third, causing intentional interference on a
local proper and preventing other amateurs from using

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it. Quite frankly, I think
that more people should should get fined for

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this. Okay. If you are
a Ham with a license and you interfere

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on a Ham radio repeater, I
think this sh would happen more often.

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That type of interference happens much more
often than the FCC actually does something about

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it. If you have a Ham
radio license, then you should know better.

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So I'm talking to Ham radio operators
right now. If you're interfering with

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something, I think the FCC should
come after you and find you grow up.

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How old was this guy? I
have no idea, no idea how

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old this dude was. Presumably he
was not fifteen years old, and he

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was probably some old crotchety dude sitting
in his apartment with nothing else to do.

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So he decided to interfere with the
repeater because he didn't like the repeater

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owner, or maybe somebody said something
on the repeater that offended him some point

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in time. Who knows why?
Who knows why people do these stupid things.

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The FCC is quoted here saying,
given his history as a repeat offender,

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this violation warrants a significant penalty.
Naal recounted numerous complaints alleging that Gretzky

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was deliberately interfering with a repeater in
Glen Oaks, New York. In June

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of twenty seventeen, the FCC issued
a warning letter to him, advising him

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of the nature of the allegations against
him and directing him to stop using the

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repeater going forward completely. Nonetheless,
additional complaints were filed, and I would

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be filing a complaint. Why not
this guy's a Ham interfering with a Ham

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radio repeater, Okay? And yes, yes, you can say, well,

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people getting on the Ham radio repeaters
without a license and interfering and maybe

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making no is there something you're just
just being jackwagons? Yeah you should complain

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about that as well. Okay,
And some of you are probably gonna comment,

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well, that's just a sad hymn
who cares? Okay, if I

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bought the repeater and put it up, and spend the money on the repeater

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itself, on the duplexers, on
the hardline, on the antenna, on

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the internet connection, if it has
one on the tower space, if I

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have to rent it and I want
Ham radio operators to use it for the

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benefit of expanding communications in this area, then I care. I care as

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the person who spent all the money. I care that somebody's coming on there

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and using it the way that it
shouldn't be used. So and quite frankly,

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if you are that person who spent
your money on a repeater, you

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should care. Also. I don't
understand why some people are like, well,

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it's just a sad heymn. That
does why? I mean, what's

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wrong with you where you have to
spend your days causing interference to something you

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don't own because you have nothing better
to do with your time. Get a

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freaking hobby, Get a job.
Maybe maybe go get a job. Maybe

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you're bored because you have no job. In April of twenty eighteen, agents

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from the FCC New York Enforcement Bureau
drove to Richmond Hill to investigate following an

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inspection of Gretzky's station, so presumably
he let him in the door and let

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him in expect a station. The
agents advised him in writing that he was

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prohibited from using the local repeater.
Now, they didn't prohibit him from getting

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on the air or revoke his license. They just told him to stop using

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this one repeater. After the FCC
received further complaints regarding Gresky's continue operation on

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the local repeater, the NFORT Bureau
again drove to Richmond Hill to investigate.

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The agent monitor the VHF repeter's input
and output frequencies and after observing deliberate interference

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to other stations, using direction finding
techniques to identify the source to transmission as

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Greski's station quote. The agent monitored
and recorded transmissions emanating from Gressey's station for

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several hours that afternoon and heard him
interfering with the local repeater. The NAL

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said again quote later, the agent
heard Gretzki making threatening comments towards other amateur

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radio operators. These transmissions were deliberate
to control the frequency and prevent other amateur

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radio operators from conducting legitimate communications.
So what do you think about okay.

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So some people will come along and
they'll be like, well, FCC's stomping

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on his rights for fill in the
blank, make up something. Okay,

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He's not stomping on his rights.
He is the one interfering with other people.

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He is the one interfering with equipment
that he does not own. He

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is the one interfering with regular transmissions
on amateur radio frequencies and an amateur radio

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repeater and other amateur radio operators.
So if you're the guy who's listening to

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all this and trying to communicate on
this repeater and some other guy is causing

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interference, then your rights are being
infringed at that person at that point in

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time. If you're trying to talk
to me, then your rights and my

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rights are both being infringed at that
point in time by this guy down the

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road who apparently has much of the
maturity level of a junior high school student.

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this video. The following month,

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the FCC Regional Director David Dombrowski spoke
with Gretzky via telephone, noting that the

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commission will was still receiving complaints about
his continued to use to the repeater and

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cautioning him against using the repeater.
The FCC said Gretzky apparently wilfully violated Section

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three three three of the Communications Act, Section ninety seven dot one oh one

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delta of the FCC's Amateur Service Rules, demonstrating a deliberate disregard for the Commission's

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authority and very spirit of amateur radio
serve by continuing to interfere with the local

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repeater despite having been warned. And
that's where the article ends. I wish

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some of these ARTI this is on
the ABRL website and I will link it

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below if you want to read this
for yourself. I wish some of these

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articles would link to follow ups.
I mean, this was five years ago,

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almost four and a half years ago, so I wish some of these

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would link to a follow up and
say, well, what happened to this

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guy? Did someone go over to
his house and beat the crap out of

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him? I mean, did the
FCC actually collect any money? Did they

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confiscate his equipment? What happened?
I don't really know. I did a

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video about someone else a while back, that story for that person. I'm

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trying to remember which one it was, because I've done a few of these,

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that story for that person that was
a CB guy, and I had

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people coming along in the comment say
that they knew the guy and he had

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since passed away. I'm like,
okay, so if anyone knows this guy,

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if anyone in New York has heard
this guy or knows him or heard

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this interference back in twenty nineteen,
put a comment below and let me know

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if you know what happened, what
happened next. I would like to know,

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would like to know what happened next. The real issue is is this

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Okay, this guy was willfully interfering
with a HAM radio repeater on Ham radio

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frequencies, and he was keeping other
people from using it. So you can

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come along once again. You can
come along and say, well, the

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FCC just needs to they have too
much overreach, or they have too much

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authority, or they can't, they
shouldn't be able to do this. Well

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why not? What about everybody else
that was trying to use the repeater or

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listen to the repeater in a legitimate
type of way. What about their rights?

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What about the repeater owner's rights,
who's paid all this money for or

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it's if it's a club repeater.
If it's a club repeater, then even

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worse because people pay money to the
club to use the club repeater and now

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there's a multitude of people who can't
use the repeater because of this interference.

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Okay, So while I don't necessarily
I don't like to defend the FCC,

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I think they have their place in
moderation, okay, And I think it's

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important to understand that we the people
are the government is supposed to be,

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and the FCC is part of that
government. So the FCC actually works for

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us, not the other way around. We shouldn't be beholden or liable to

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the FCC. We shouldn't have to
answer the FCC. The FCC should have

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to answer to us, but their
job is to do stuff like what exactly

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what they did right here. They
gave him a warning letter. Over the

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course of like a year and a
half, maybe longer than that, they

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gave him a warning letter, they
issued a fine, They drove to his

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location and proved that it was him
that was doing this. So there's no

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ambiguity. There's no question that it
was this guy interfering. In this article.

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It doesn't talk about anything about him
getting this equipment confiscated or taken away,

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which at that point in time,
if you get your HAMM radio license

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and you memorize the test questions and
you realize that you have to provide an

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inspection. If they come knock on
your door, you have to it.

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Let him inspect your equipment, not
let him in your house, not let

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him confiscate anything, but let him
inspect your equipment. And if you continue

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acting like a jackass, then maybe
you should get your equipment taken away.

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I would like to know what you
guys think about that looking at it from

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an ho outside perspective. Don't look
at it like this guy is getting trampled

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on by the FCC. Look at
it like everybody else surrounding this guy,

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and how this guy is interfering with
people who just want to be amateur radio

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operators and use the repeater the way
it should be used. If you enjoyed

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this story, you want to see
other like it. Check out these videos

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over here, because I've got a
bunch of these CB operators, HAM radio

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operators, gmrs, a lot of
stuff over here. Check that out.

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Seventy three Thanks for watching today,