WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.679 Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.320 This is the audio taken out of a video or a livestream I did 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.279 recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point zero 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.399 and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for a 5 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.559 different topic each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you for 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:31.079 being a member of the community. The FCC is back at it again, 7 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:36.880 and this time they're after a CBE radio operator in Tennessee for running too much 8 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:45.799 power with what do you know, an Ameritron amplifier. Okay, so I 9 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.159 found this story and I started googling, and the best I've actually seen this 10 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:55.359 story on a couple of different websites. One that has the best description NatCom 11 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:59.479 Magazine, which is a paid service. You can go to natcommag dot com 12 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.280 and subscribe vibe. They have a lot of really good radio related news articles 13 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.640 about CB, HAM radio, gmrs, the whole nine yards. The FCC 14 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.239 is going after air Tennessee Citizens Band radio operator apparently for using excessive power using 15 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:19.280 a ten meter radio modified to transmit on CB channels and allegedly call causing interference. 16 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:25.040 Now I get sometimes I get and we're gonna talk about this striker radio 17 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.599 this guy's using here in just a minute. Sometimes I will get people commenting 18 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.519 on my videos, or I will get emails from people and they'll be like, 19 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.640 Hey, I just picked up this ham radio. It does this, 20 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.719 this and this and this, and come to find out later it's one of 21 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.560 these Striker cbs, or one of these Ranger the RCI twenty nine to fifty, 22 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.840 twenty one to seventy, or maybe one of the older Galaxy model ten 23 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.280 meter export radios as they call them. I have mixed feelings about those. 24 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:55.640 Number one, they are not a ham radio. They're a ten meter radio 25 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.560 that does more power than is legal on eleven meters. And the reason those 26 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:04.319 companies they're selling those inside of the USA as ten meter export radios is so 27 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.319 that cbers will buy them, modify them, and use them. You know 28 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.039 what, It's not legal to do that. You're going to do that? 29 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.439 More power to you. That's on you, Bud. I do not care. 30 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.639 I really don't. I will not go so far as to say that 31 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.000 I've never done that myself, although I have never It's been more than twenty 32 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:22.759 years since I've done anything like that. But they are not a HAM radio. 33 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:24.199 They are meant to be a CBN. Yeah, a lot of these 34 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:30.280 radios have a larger range of frequencies they'll go to that will include ten and 35 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.960 twelve meters And guess what, since in Part ninety seven, there's no such 36 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.960 things that type accepted Part ninety seven radio. If you're a private ham radio 37 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.479 operator, if you're a company manufacturing radios, it's a little bit different. 38 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.919 So we as hamm radio operators Part ninety seven have an experimenter's license. You 39 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.840 can build a radio in your garage and use it on the air, as 40 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.840 long as you're not manufacturing this radio. So I actually want to take one 41 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:54.199 of these radios out to a PoTA one time and see what we can do 42 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.800 on ten meters with it. More to come on that later. 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You guys, 50 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.000 check the links in the description blow at the end of this video. 51 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:37.199 So FCC's Region two Enforcement Bureau office in Powder Springs, Georgia, issue to 52 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.560 notice of unlicensed operation letter on Thursday, August thirty first. This was just 53 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:45.439 a couple months ago. At the time of this recording to Thomas Warmouth of 54 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:49.039 College Dale, Tennessee. It's letter sent to Warmouth, the FCC was acting 55 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.400 in compliance and interference residus electronics devices. So here's the letter that the FCC 56 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.159 did. This is actually the first thing I found, and when I started 57 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.159 googling for this, I found a couple of different websites. This was on 58 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.719 and not mag did the best job of describing it. In my opinion. 59 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:06.240 Agents from the Atlanta office confirmed by direction finding techniques that radio signals on frequency 60 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:10.919 two seven dot two two five Megga Hurts, we're emanating from your residence in 61 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.159 College Dale, Tennessee. This is a letter they wrote to this mister Warmouth. 62 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.000 Guy. Agents confirm through investigation that your radio station is operating in a 63 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.680 manner that is inconsistent with rules that are applicle to CBE radio stations. Therefore, 64 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:26.839 your radio station operator is operating without authorization. Radio stations operating on certain 65 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.800 frequencies, including CDB radio, which is twenty six dot nine to six five 66 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.079 megahertz to twenty seven dot four oh five. Twenty six dot nine sixty five 67 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.319 is channel one, twenty seven dot four oh five is channel forty, and 68 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.120 in those you can operate on certain frequencies. In those, it's channelized, 69 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.560 so you can't actually go anywhere. Well, you can go anywhere in between 70 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.639 there's and operate sideband kind of in between frequencies. But if you're operating AM, 71 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:51.480 it's supposed to be on those specific forty channels, and they don't go 72 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.519 in order. It's kind of a weird thing. Maybe I'll do another video 73 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:59.399 on that later. CBE radio band must be licensed by the Commission pursuant to 74 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.399 Section three one of the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four. An amended Act, 75 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:08.000 section ninety five dot three oh five Commission's Rules authorizes eligible persons to operate 76 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:14.000 Part ninety five cbpersonal rail services without individual license. You are hereby warned that 77 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.959 operation of non approved radio transmitting equipment as well as operating without a valid radio 78 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:21.120 station authorization. You don't need a license to operate CB, so I'm not 79 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:26.199 sure what that means. Constitutes a violation of federal laws and rules cited above 80 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:30.240 and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including but not limited to substantial 81 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.240 monetary fines in REM. In REM, that's Latin. I don't know what 82 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:39.439 in REM means seizure and perhaps and also seizure of the offending radio equipment and 83 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.920 criminal sanctions including imprisonment. Okay, and then here you know, you have 84 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.720 ten days from this date of notice to respond. Assigned Debbie roy Bisky, 85 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.519 Regional Director, Region two Enforcement Bureau, FCC. There you go. I'll 86 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.600 put a link to this in the description below. So they're saying that, 87 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.120 so Part ninety five is the CEBEE Radio BANM. Part ninety five dot three 88 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.199 one is what they're quoting here, and Part ninety five a couple other pieces 89 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.360 of Part ninety five nine dot three five and nine to sixty seven. Part 90 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:10.839 ninety five is the CB radio band. It covers more than just CB radio, 91 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.439 but these specific sections are applicable to CB radio. So in other words, 92 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.480 you don't have to have a license to operate CB, but you have 93 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:23.680 to have a licensed CB. So, in other words, according to the 94 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.079 rule, according to the regulations. Okay, sometimes I'll call it a laws 95 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.160 in past and people come by, it's not a law, it's a rule. 96 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.399 Okay, semantics, whatever you want to call it. Okay, according 97 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.480 to the regulations, you don't need a license to operate CB in the United 98 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.439 States anymore. They used to require licensed years ago, but not anymore. 99 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:46.839 But you need an unauthorized and licensed radio something that has been improved by the 100 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:51.279 FCC to eliminate or to reduce spurious emissions. Like it or not, that's 101 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.639 the regulation. That's the rule. I'm not saying I do or don't agree 102 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.519 with it. I think part of it's kind of stupid. But you know 103 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.639 what, they didn't call me and ask me, so I'm just telling you 104 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.560 what it says. You make your own decision about that thing. Here's a 105 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:06.079 response. Wait a second. You may say that person uses CB don't need 106 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.680 a license or authorized to do so, so how to FCC. Here's the 107 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.759 kicker. If person's using CB radios are licensed by the rule Part ninety five, 108 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.480 FCC which is the governance PCB regulations. Why you don't need a CB 109 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.959 license anymore. The metre fact that you fire up before what CB radio talking 110 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.879 there. You're licensed on a licensed free spectrum to use CB's forty channels as 111 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.120 long as you follow the rules on part ninety five, which is basically what 112 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.920 I just said. This is the best part right here. Okay, So 113 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:34.360 this is a screenshot of this guy's Twitter account, Facebook account. I thought 114 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:38.720 that was Twitter, it's Facebook. This is a This is a Thomas Warfile's 115 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.360 profile photo posted on Facebook, and this is the radio who he was using. 116 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.680 It's a Striker SR nine to fifty five hp. HP usually means high 117 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:48.920 power. Wonder how much power that is? Now, if I'm wanting to 118 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:54.160 use that on PODA for ten meters, my license allows me to use that 119 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.360 within the ten meter amateur radio band. Part ninety seven allows me to use 120 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:03.480 experimental radio equipment, So it would be totally legal for me or for you 121 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.839 as a licensed amateur radio operator, even even with a technician license, if 122 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.079 you stay between twenty eight dot three and twenty eight dot five, be completely 123 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.959 legal to use this on mture radio bands as long as it's not pumping out 124 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.160 over fifteen hundred watts. This is probably a I don't know what is this 125 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:22.160 striker nine to fifty five hp okay, according to Walcott Radio at this site 126 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.000 right here, this is a three hundred and fifty dollars radio. Seventy five 127 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:31.480 watts PEP via bird meter, forty five watts AMS CB is legal. Four 128 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.360 watts on key down. Again, that's most CBS AM you can do Sideman 129 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.080 and now FM on CB as well. Four watts is the key down. 130 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.039 So in other words, on AM, when you key down the mic, 131 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.399 you can't produce more than four wats. When you talk into the mic, 132 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:48.080 it modulates the signal, it'll do more than four watts, and that's legal. 133 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.759 And I don't know if there is a legal limit on peak envelope power 134 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.559 PEP or not. I'd have to look that up, but four watts is 135 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.320 the legal limit on key down. So this one's doing seventy five watts PEP. 136 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.399 I don't it does not really saying what forty five watts RMS that's I 137 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.000 forget what RMS stands for. That might mean that it's forty five watts on 138 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.080 key down and seventy five wants on pep. But again, Walcott Radio is 139 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:15.000 selling this as a ten meter radio, and that level of power is completely 140 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.840 acceptable within the amateur radio spectrum of the ten meter band. Might be fun 141 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.639 to try to try one of these on a PODA activation. I would really 142 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.559 like that, may have one. I don't have a Striker radio, but 143 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.960 I do have an old Galaxy radio. Something to think about. But this 144 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.360 is really good right here. Okay, Now, mister warmouth, if you're 145 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.960 if you happened upon this video, I don't mean this by an insult, 146 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.639 but my god, English bud. Okay, look at this. Well, 147 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.639 I had a Ham radio. A Ham operator turned me into the po po. 148 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:43.960 Okay. I know a lot of you guys in the comments love the 149 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.240 blame HAMM radio operators for all this stuff. Okay, let's say that's true. 150 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.960 How would a Ham radio operator know he was running that much power? 151 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:56.559 Is it possible he was interfering with something your TV set, your computer speakers, 152 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:58.960 some sort of AM receiver in your house, car stereo and your car 153 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.480 AMFM car stereo in your car something. I mean, how would they know 154 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:09.320 if this guy had properly grounded and or if I choked his equipment. It's 155 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.720 possible that they would have never heard him, but I don't know. So 156 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.799 he says, I had a Ham radio operator turned me into the PO. 157 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.720 PO said my ameritron a LAB was coming across his guitar speaker. That's where 158 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.440 I read it, coming across his guitar speaker. Okay, So how do 159 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.679 he knows a Ham radio operator? Maybe it was I'm not saying it was 160 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.399 or wasn't, okay, but someone turned him in for coming across his guitar 161 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.360 speaker. The Amraitron amp, which is a Ham radio amplifier, is not 162 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.799 legal on me on CB, So there you go. The police showed up 163 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:41.679 with a couple other gentlemen showed up and said that they were FCC, but 164 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.759 they did not say they were the FCC, and wants me to shut down. 165 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:46.639 I said, I'll put my amp out of line, but I will 166 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.440 not quit transmitting on my radio. They also told me that my radio is 167 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.480 illegal because it's the Striker nine to fifty five. So basically, I'm getting 168 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.039 harassed. What else can I do about this? Wow? No punctuation, 169 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:01.679 no comments, no periods, all lowercase. I my first what can I 170 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:03.360 do about this? As his last statement, those last words was what can 171 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.159 I do about this? Learn English? That's my first suggestion. I would 172 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.360 learn English. I would, I would absolutely one hundred percent learn English, 173 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:15.639 and then and then maybe you'd have a better time of actually getting stuff across. 174 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.440 But well, I know, people talk. People type on Facebook, 175 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.000 they type on comments on YouTube, they type this way, people type this 176 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.080 way. Okay, all right, I don't mean people call me a grammar 177 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.879 nazi. Okay, you know what. It's just that if you want to 178 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.600 be taken seriously, you might try to type in a manner that proves that 179 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.200 you graduated the third grade. That's my personal opinion. You may not agree 180 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.960 with me. That's what I think. So he claims a hand radio operator 181 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.080 turned him in. Perhaps that's true, Perhaps it's not true. I don't 182 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.200 know. So what do you guys think about this? An ameritron app on 183 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.039 a Striker ten meter made for ten meter export radio that again not really a 184 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.840 ham radio. If you ask any ham radio operator if that's a Ham radio, 185 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.200 they will tell you no, it's not a ham radio. It is 186 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.320 sold by Striker as an export radio for ten meters that's meant to be modified 187 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.120 used on the eleven meter band to get around the FCC requirements. More power 188 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.279 to you, buddy, capitalism. You gotta love it, gotta love I 189 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.480 do. I love capitalism. I absolutely love capitalism. I think some of 190 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.840 this, some of the rules and regulations around CEBE radio were dumb. I 191 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.000 think some of the rules around rules and regulations around GMRS radio are dumb. 192 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.720 I think if I have a license to operate on those bands, I should 193 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.080 be able to use any radio I want to. I don't think the Part 194 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.320 ninety five rules are very good. Now does that mean I'm gonna just go 195 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:28.480 break the rules just because I don't agree with him. No, I'm not 196 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.879 gonna do that. But there's ways to get rules and regulations changed in this 197 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.200 country, and ignoring them is not one of those ways. But again my 198 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.279 opinion. I'm not telling you what to do, but I would like to 199 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.840 know what you think about this article. Put a comment below.