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being a member of the community. The FCC is back at it again,
and this time they're after a CBE radio operator in Tennessee for running too much
power with what do you know, an Ameritron amplifier. Okay, so I
found this story and I started googling, and the best I've actually seen this
story on a couple of different websites. One that has the best description NatCom
Magazine, which is a paid service. You can go to natcommag dot com
and subscribe vibe. They have a lot of really good radio related news articles
about CB, HAM radio, gmrs, the whole nine yards. The FCC
is going after air Tennessee Citizens Band radio operator apparently for using excessive power using
a ten meter radio modified to transmit on CB channels and allegedly call causing interference.
Now I get sometimes I get and we're gonna talk about this striker radio
this guy's using here in just a minute. Sometimes I will get people commenting
on my videos, or I will get emails from people and they'll be like,
Hey, I just picked up this ham radio. It does this,
this and this and this, and come to find out later it's one of
these Striker cbs, or one of these Ranger the RCI twenty nine to fifty,
twenty one to seventy, or maybe one of the older Galaxy model ten
meter export radios as they call them. I have mixed feelings about those.
Number one, they are not a ham radio. They're a ten meter radio
that does more power than is legal on eleven meters. And the reason those
companies they're selling those inside of the USA as ten meter export radios is so
that cbers will buy them, modify them, and use them. You know
what, It's not legal to do that. You're going to do that?
More power to you. That's on you, Bud. I do not care.
I really don't. I will not go so far as to say that
I've never done that myself, although I have never It's been more than twenty
years since I've done anything like that. But they are not a HAM radio.
They are meant to be a CBN. Yeah, a lot of these
radios have a larger range of frequencies they'll go to that will include ten and
twelve meters And guess what, since in Part ninety seven, there's no such
things that type accepted Part ninety seven radio. If you're a private ham radio
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can build a radio in your garage and use it on the air, as
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So FCC's Region two Enforcement Bureau office in Powder Springs, Georgia, issue to
notice of unlicensed operation letter on Thursday, August thirty first. This was just
a couple months ago. At the time of this recording to Thomas Warmouth of
College Dale, Tennessee. It's letter sent to Warmouth, the FCC was acting
in compliance and interference residus electronics devices. So here's the letter that the FCC
did. This is actually the first thing I found, and when I started
googling for this, I found a couple of different websites. This was on
and not mag did the best job of describing it. In my opinion.
Agents from the Atlanta office confirmed by direction finding techniques that radio signals on frequency
two seven dot two two five Megga Hurts, we're emanating from your residence in
College Dale, Tennessee. This is a letter they wrote to this mister Warmouth.
Guy. Agents confirm through investigation that your radio station is operating in a
manner that is inconsistent with rules that are applicle to CBE radio stations. Therefore,
your radio station operator is operating without authorization. Radio stations operating on certain
frequencies, including CDB radio, which is twenty six dot nine to six five
megahertz to twenty seven dot four oh five. Twenty six dot nine sixty five
is channel one, twenty seven dot four oh five is channel forty, and
in those you can operate on certain frequencies. In those, it's channelized,
so you can't actually go anywhere. Well, you can go anywhere in between
there's and operate sideband kind of in between frequencies. But if you're operating AM,
it's supposed to be on those specific forty channels, and they don't go
in order. It's kind of a weird thing. Maybe I'll do another video
on that later. CBE radio band must be licensed by the Commission pursuant to
Section three one of the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four. An amended Act,
section ninety five dot three oh five Commission's Rules authorizes eligible persons to operate
Part ninety five cbpersonal rail services without individual license. You are hereby warned that
operation of non approved radio transmitting equipment as well as operating without a valid radio
station authorization. You don't need a license to operate CB, so I'm not
sure what that means. Constitutes a violation of federal laws and rules cited above
and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including but not limited to substantial
monetary fines in REM. In REM, that's Latin. I don't know what
in REM means seizure and perhaps and also seizure of the offending radio equipment and
criminal sanctions including imprisonment. Okay, and then here you know, you have
ten days from this date of notice to respond. Assigned Debbie roy Bisky,
Regional Director, Region two Enforcement Bureau, FCC. There you go. I'll
put a link to this in the description below. So they're saying that,
so Part ninety five is the CEBEE Radio BANM. Part ninety five dot three
one is what they're quoting here, and Part ninety five a couple other pieces
of Part ninety five nine dot three five and nine to sixty seven. Part
ninety five is the CB radio band. It covers more than just CB radio,
but these specific sections are applicable to CB radio. So in other words,
you don't have to have a license to operate CB, but you have
to have a licensed CB. So, in other words, according to the
rule, according to the regulations. Okay, sometimes I'll call it a laws
in past and people come by, it's not a law, it's a rule.
Okay, semantics, whatever you want to call it. Okay, according
to the regulations, you don't need a license to operate CB in the United
States anymore. They used to require licensed years ago, but not anymore.
But you need an unauthorized and licensed radio something that has been improved by the
FCC to eliminate or to reduce spurious emissions. Like it or not, that's
the regulation. That's the rule. I'm not saying I do or don't agree
with it. I think part of it's kind of stupid. But you know
what, they didn't call me and ask me, so I'm just telling you
what it says. You make your own decision about that thing. Here's a
response. Wait a second. You may say that person uses CB don't need
a license or authorized to do so, so how to FCC. Here's the
kicker. If person's using CB radios are licensed by the rule Part ninety five,
FCC which is the governance PCB regulations. Why you don't need a CB
license anymore. The metre fact that you fire up before what CB radio talking
there. You're licensed on a licensed free spectrum to use CB's forty channels as
long as you follow the rules on part ninety five, which is basically what
I just said. This is the best part right here. Okay, So
this is a screenshot of this guy's Twitter account, Facebook account. I thought
that was Twitter, it's Facebook. This is a This is a Thomas Warfile's
profile photo posted on Facebook, and this is the radio who he was using.
It's a Striker SR nine to fifty five hp. HP usually means high
power. Wonder how much power that is? Now, if I'm wanting to
use that on PODA for ten meters, my license allows me to use that
within the ten meter amateur radio band. Part ninety seven allows me to use
experimental radio equipment, So it would be totally legal for me or for you
as a licensed amateur radio operator, even even with a technician license, if
you stay between twenty eight dot three and twenty eight dot five, be completely
legal to use this on mture radio bands as long as it's not pumping out
over fifteen hundred watts. This is probably a I don't know what is this
striker nine to fifty five hp okay, according to Walcott Radio at this site
right here, this is a three hundred and fifty dollars radio. Seventy five
watts PEP via bird meter, forty five watts AMS CB is legal. Four
watts on key down. Again, that's most CBS AM you can do Sideman
and now FM on CB as well. Four watts is the key down.
So in other words, on AM, when you key down the mic,
you can't produce more than four wats. When you talk into the mic,
it modulates the signal, it'll do more than four watts, and that's legal.
And I don't know if there is a legal limit on peak envelope power
PEP or not. I'd have to look that up, but four watts is
the legal limit on key down. So this one's doing seventy five watts PEP.
I don't it does not really saying what forty five watts RMS that's I
forget what RMS stands for. That might mean that it's forty five watts on
key down and seventy five wants on pep. But again, Walcott Radio is
selling this as a ten meter radio, and that level of power is completely
acceptable within the amateur radio spectrum of the ten meter band. Might be fun
to try to try one of these on a PODA activation. I would really
like that, may have one. I don't have a Striker radio, but
I do have an old Galaxy radio. Something to think about. But this
is really good right here. Okay, Now, mister warmouth, if you're
if you happened upon this video, I don't mean this by an insult,
but my god, English bud. Okay, look at this. Well,
I had a Ham radio. A Ham operator turned me into the po po.
Okay. I know a lot of you guys in the comments love the
blame HAMM radio operators for all this stuff. Okay, let's say that's true.
How would a Ham radio operator know he was running that much power?
Is it possible he was interfering with something your TV set, your computer speakers,
some sort of AM receiver in your house, car stereo and your car
AMFM car stereo in your car something. I mean, how would they know
if this guy had properly grounded and or if I choked his equipment. It's
possible that they would have never heard him, but I don't know. So
he says, I had a Ham radio operator turned me into the PO.
PO said my ameritron a LAB was coming across his guitar speaker. That's where
I read it, coming across his guitar speaker. Okay, So how do
he knows a Ham radio operator? Maybe it was I'm not saying it was
or wasn't, okay, but someone turned him in for coming across his guitar
speaker. The Amraitron amp, which is a Ham radio amplifier, is not
legal on me on CB, So there you go. The police showed up
with a couple other gentlemen showed up and said that they were FCC, but
they did not say they were the FCC, and wants me to shut down.
I said, I'll put my amp out of line, but I will
not quit transmitting on my radio. They also told me that my radio is
illegal because it's the Striker nine to fifty five. So basically, I'm getting
harassed. What else can I do about this? Wow? No punctuation,
no comments, no periods, all lowercase. I my first what can I
do about this? As his last statement, those last words was what can
I do about this? Learn English? That's my first suggestion. I would
learn English. I would, I would absolutely one hundred percent learn English,
and then and then maybe you'd have a better time of actually getting stuff across.
But well, I know, people talk. People type on Facebook,
they type on comments on YouTube, they type this way, people type this
way. Okay, all right, I don't mean people call me a grammar
nazi. Okay, you know what. It's just that if you want to
be taken seriously, you might try to type in a manner that proves that
you graduated the third grade. That's my personal opinion. You may not agree
with me. That's what I think. So he claims a hand radio operator
turned him in. Perhaps that's true, Perhaps it's not true. I don't
know. So what do you guys think about this? An ameritron app on
a Striker ten meter made for ten meter export radio that again not really a
ham radio. If you ask any ham radio operator if that's a Ham radio,
they will tell you no, it's not a ham radio. It is
sold by Striker as an export radio for ten meters that's meant to be modified
used on the eleven meter band to get around the FCC requirements. More power
to you, buddy, capitalism. You gotta love it, gotta love I
do. I love capitalism. I absolutely love capitalism. I think some of
this, some of the rules and regulations around CEBE radio were dumb. I
think some of the rules around rules and regulations around GMRS radio are dumb.
I think if I have a license to operate on those bands, I should
be able to use any radio I want to. I don't think the Part
ninety five rules are very good. Now does that mean I'm gonna just go
break the rules just because I don't agree with him. No, I'm not
gonna do that. But there's ways to get rules and regulations changed in this
country, and ignoring them is not one of those ways. But again my
opinion. I'm not telling you what to do, but I would like to
know what you think about this article. Put a comment below.