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being a member of the community. A radio operator was given a three thousand
dollars fine for refusing a radio inspection an inspection of his radio equipment. But
wait, it was not a ham radio operator. I hear a lot of
times in comments, and I hear a lot of times in emails and text
messages different websites, mostly from my YouTube comments that you lose your Fourth Amendment
rights when you get a hammer radio license. First of all, that's not
true, and I'm working on a video right now that explains that in greater
detail, so be watching for that coming. But right now, I found
this article on in compliancemagazine dot com Incompliance mag dot com, and this is
beautiful. This title caught my eye and I definitely I stopped and I'm like,
wait a minute, hold on. A second radio operator fined three thousand
dollars for refusing inspection. Now, this is from March of twenty fifteen,
so this is not recent, okay. But this is in the twenty first
century at least. This is not from fifty or sixty or years ago or
something longer than that. Okay. The USFCC has ordered the operator of a
citizens banded CB radio station to pay a penalty of three thousand dollars for his
refusal to allow an inspection of his installation. According to a forfeiture order issued
by the Commission on February of twenty fifteen, the operator, Tommy Salter of
Jacksonville, Florida, refused to allow agents from the FCC Enforcement Bureaus Tampa office
to inspect his CB station. Salter continued to refuse the agent's request to inspect
his equipment even after being informed by the agents that his refusal to allow an
inspection constitutioned a violation of FCC rules. So this is the part that lots
of people just fail to realize or they just ignore when they're actually reading through
the documents of the fccs. And I'm not necessarily saying that I agree with
all of these things, but this is what the FCC says, if you
read the documentation of your GMRS license, if you read the fine print as
it were on an FRS radio, go look at an FRS radio blister pack
the next time you're at academy or best pro shops or something like that.
If you read the documentation on your CB radio, read the owner's manual of
a brand new CBE radio, you might buy all of those services along with
amateur radio. Say that the FCC can come knock on your door and request
not force to inspect your radio equipment because of potential interference or negligence, harmful
interference, harmful intentions, or something like that. I mean, you know,
fill in the blank here. They can request it. They can also
knock on your door and request to see the power pole the transformer. If
you live in a neighborhood with with old style telephone poles where the lines aren't
buried. Newer neighborhoods have lines buried. Some older neighborhoods have telephone poles in
their yards on the easement between your house and your neighbor's house and the side
and the back wherever, maybe in your backyard, maybe in your front yard.
Even they can knock on your door and request to come into your backyard,
onto your property and inspect a transformer that they think is faulty, which
is not your fault at all. You didn't install that transformer out there,
but they can do that. They can request to inspect your radio equipment if
they think you're doing something wrong, and if you refuse it, you could
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Ham Radio two point zero and thank them for being our sponsor. In his
response to a Notice of apparent liability issued by the Commission. Salter did not
deny that he refused access to his equipment, but claimed that he was not
able to permit the inspection since he had to leave for doctor's appointment. However,
neither of the Enforcement Bureau agents who visited Salter recalled his having mentioned the
appointment, and Salter was unable to produce any tangible evidence of having such an
appointment. The Commission did reduce the amount of the proposed penalty from fourteen thousand
dollars to three thousand dollars in light of tax returns submitted Salter in his supported
claim of financial hardship. So, in other words, they originally tried to
find him fourteen thousand dollars for refusing inspection. This guy either had something that
was illegal, or maybe he didn't have something that was illegal. Maybe he
was just like, no, I don't have to let you into my property.
Well, if you refuse an inspection, you can still get fined by
the FCC. Is that right? Is that wrong? I have mixed emotions
about that, But I also recall a lot of people claiming that when you
get your ham radio license, you give up your Fourth Amendment rights and they
just can come barging in your door without a warrant and search your property anytime
they want to. And that is just completely and utterly false. They can't
do that to you at all. With or without a Hamm radio license.
They can knock on the door and request inspection of your station. Even CBE
radios require no license in the USA and haven't since like the seventies. They
can even do that in twenty fifteen. Granted this was about nine years ago,
but in twenty fifteen they find a guy, a CBE operator no license
at all, for refusing inspection. So is that right? Is that wrong?
Do you agree with that sort of government overreach if that's what it is.
I mean, if the guy has an illegal CB first of all,
Number one, if he didn't have anything illegal, then why would he refuse
inspection. Maybe he just didn't want the government coming into his house, and
I can understand that point of view, believe me. If he had allowed
them in there, he could have been fined for having illegal equipment like an
amplifier or a peaked and tuned CB radio or something like that. He could
have done that, or he could have had that, I should say,
so they could have find an even greater amount than that for having something illegal,
but he refused to allow them access for some reason. Okay, and
you know, I may or I don't know what the reason is. I
may or may not agree with that reason. Evidence is that, guess what,
he didn't have a ham radio license and they weren't coming to knock on
his door because they had his call sign in a database somewhere, and they
just wanted to see his equipment. So I want to know what you guys
think about that specific thing, this three thousand dollars fine. I don't know
if he ever had to pay it, if they took him to court,
I don't know if they followed up, followed through with it. I would
like to. I did a very quick search of this person, and I
found a couple more articles on a couple different websites with the same story,
but I couldn't really find ever if he had been forced to pay, or
had his paycheck docked, or had you know, some kind of stipend or
something put on his tax return or whatever. You know, if you have
a fine from the FCC for whatever reason and say, well, yeah,
but you never really have to pay that, they never really enforce it.
Well, but the next time you go apply for a car loan or a
home loan or some sort of line of credit for anything, if they have
that, if they see that on there, you might have some trouble doing
regular life. If you have oh yeah, you got this three thousand dollars
fine from the FCC on your credit score or on your record. Here,
we can't give you this car loan today because you know, you're obviously don't
pay your bills. I don't know. It might not be a good thing.