WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.679 Thank you for choosing to download the Hamm 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 --> 00:00:34.560 being a member of the community. A radio operator was given a three thousand 7 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:40.000 dollars fine for refusing a radio inspection an inspection of his radio equipment. But 8 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:47.640 wait, it was not a ham radio operator. I hear a lot of 9 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.479 times in comments, and I hear a lot of times in emails and text 10 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:57.920 messages different websites, mostly from my YouTube comments that you lose your Fourth Amendment 11 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.039 rights when you get a hammer radio license. First of all, that's not 12 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.120 true, and I'm working on a video right now that explains that in greater 13 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.799 detail, so be watching for that coming. But right now, I found 14 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:15.359 this article on in compliancemagazine dot com Incompliance mag dot com, and this is 15 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.079 beautiful. This title caught my eye and I definitely I stopped and I'm like, 16 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.040 wait a minute, hold on. A second radio operator fined three thousand 17 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.840 dollars for refusing inspection. Now, this is from March of twenty fifteen, 18 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.280 so this is not recent, okay. But this is in the twenty first 19 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.599 century at least. This is not from fifty or sixty or years ago or 20 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.840 something longer than that. Okay. The USFCC has ordered the operator of a 21 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.799 citizens banded CB radio station to pay a penalty of three thousand dollars for his 22 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:49.560 refusal to allow an inspection of his installation. According to a forfeiture order issued 23 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.719 by the Commission on February of twenty fifteen, the operator, Tommy Salter of 24 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:59.920 Jacksonville, Florida, refused to allow agents from the FCC Enforcement Bureaus Tampa office 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.799 to inspect his CB station. Salter continued to refuse the agent's request to inspect 26 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.439 his equipment even after being informed by the agents that his refusal to allow an 27 00:02:07.479 --> 00:02:14.199 inspection constitutioned a violation of FCC rules. So this is the part that lots 28 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:20.159 of people just fail to realize or they just ignore when they're actually reading through 29 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.120 the documents of the fccs. And I'm not necessarily saying that I agree with 30 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.719 all of these things, but this is what the FCC says, if you 31 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:34.960 read the documentation of your GMRS license, if you read the fine print as 32 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.199 it were on an FRS radio, go look at an FRS radio blister pack 33 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.280 the next time you're at academy or best pro shops or something like that. 34 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:46.039 If you read the documentation on your CB radio, read the owner's manual of 35 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.599 a brand new CBE radio, you might buy all of those services along with 36 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:54.960 amateur radio. Say that the FCC can come knock on your door and request 37 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:05.680 not force to inspect your radio equipment because of potential interference or negligence, harmful 38 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.840 interference, harmful intentions, or something like that. I mean, you know, 39 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.840 fill in the blank here. They can request it. They can also 40 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:15.719 knock on your door and request to see the power pole the transformer. If 41 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:20.840 you live in a neighborhood with with old style telephone poles where the lines aren't 42 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.240 buried. Newer neighborhoods have lines buried. Some older neighborhoods have telephone poles in 43 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.960 their yards on the easement between your house and your neighbor's house and the side 44 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:30.960 and the back wherever, maybe in your backyard, maybe in your front yard. 45 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.240 Even they can knock on your door and request to come into your backyard, 46 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.039 onto your property and inspect a transformer that they think is faulty, which 47 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.960 is not your fault at all. You didn't install that transformer out there, 48 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:45.639 but they can do that. They can request to inspect your radio equipment if 49 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.400 they think you're doing something wrong, and if you refuse it, you could 50 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:53.840 be fined even without an amateur radio license. Today's video sponsored by pcbway dot 51 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.039 com. If you want to get any of your project ideas to come to 52 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.639 life, see and see machine printing professional three D grade printing, circuit board 53 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:06.159 printing of various types and sizes. Head over to pcbway dot com and check 54 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:12.080 out the various styles of projects and various services that they offer. I had 55 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.079 someone on a livestream a couple weeks ago and they were getting some boards printed 56 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.079 by pcb WA and they were pretty happy with the process to get that done 57 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:23.120 and to get that ship to him. So pcbway dot com. Check out 58 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.560 all of their services over there and tell them that you heard about them on 59 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.920 Ham Radio two point zero and thank them for being our sponsor. In his 60 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.000 response to a Notice of apparent liability issued by the Commission. Salter did not 61 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:38.040 deny that he refused access to his equipment, but claimed that he was not 62 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.879 able to permit the inspection since he had to leave for doctor's appointment. However, 63 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.680 neither of the Enforcement Bureau agents who visited Salter recalled his having mentioned the 64 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.319 appointment, and Salter was unable to produce any tangible evidence of having such an 65 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:56.319 appointment. The Commission did reduce the amount of the proposed penalty from fourteen thousand 66 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.920 dollars to three thousand dollars in light of tax returns submitted Salter in his supported 67 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.920 claim of financial hardship. So, in other words, they originally tried to 68 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:11.120 find him fourteen thousand dollars for refusing inspection. This guy either had something that 69 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:16.000 was illegal, or maybe he didn't have something that was illegal. Maybe he 70 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.279 was just like, no, I don't have to let you into my property. 71 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.600 Well, if you refuse an inspection, you can still get fined by 72 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.160 the FCC. Is that right? Is that wrong? I have mixed emotions 73 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.600 about that, But I also recall a lot of people claiming that when you 74 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.120 get your ham radio license, you give up your Fourth Amendment rights and they 75 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.800 just can come barging in your door without a warrant and search your property anytime 76 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.959 they want to. And that is just completely and utterly false. They can't 77 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.680 do that to you at all. With or without a Hamm radio license. 78 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.240 They can knock on the door and request inspection of your station. Even CBE 79 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:55.639 radios require no license in the USA and haven't since like the seventies. They 80 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.480 can even do that in twenty fifteen. Granted this was about nine years ago, 81 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.879 but in twenty fifteen they find a guy, a CBE operator no license 82 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.959 at all, for refusing inspection. So is that right? Is that wrong? 83 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.879 Do you agree with that sort of government overreach if that's what it is. 84 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.240 I mean, if the guy has an illegal CB first of all, 85 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.839 Number one, if he didn't have anything illegal, then why would he refuse 86 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.720 inspection. Maybe he just didn't want the government coming into his house, and 87 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:25.600 I can understand that point of view, believe me. If he had allowed 88 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.040 them in there, he could have been fined for having illegal equipment like an 89 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.319 amplifier or a peaked and tuned CB radio or something like that. He could 90 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.079 have done that, or he could have had that, I should say, 91 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:42.160 so they could have find an even greater amount than that for having something illegal, 92 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:46.079 but he refused to allow them access for some reason. Okay, and 93 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.920 you know, I may or I don't know what the reason is. I 94 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:53.920 may or may not agree with that reason. Evidence is that, guess what, 95 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.639 he didn't have a ham radio license and they weren't coming to knock on 96 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.399 his door because they had his call sign in a database somewhere, and they 97 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:02.360 just wanted to see his equipment. So I want to know what you guys 98 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.759 think about that specific thing, this three thousand dollars fine. I don't know 99 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.399 if he ever had to pay it, if they took him to court, 100 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.959 I don't know if they followed up, followed through with it. I would 101 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.759 like to. I did a very quick search of this person, and I 102 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.279 found a couple more articles on a couple different websites with the same story, 103 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.079 but I couldn't really find ever if he had been forced to pay, or 104 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:26.439 had his paycheck docked, or had you know, some kind of stipend or 105 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.319 something put on his tax return or whatever. You know, if you have 106 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.839 a fine from the FCC for whatever reason and say, well, yeah, 107 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.839 but you never really have to pay that, they never really enforce it. 108 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.399 Well, but the next time you go apply for a car loan or a 109 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.120 home loan or some sort of line of credit for anything, if they have 110 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.600 that, if they see that on there, you might have some trouble doing 111 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.759 regular life. If you have oh yeah, you got this three thousand dollars 112 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:54.319 fine from the FCC on your credit score or on your record. Here, 113 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.560 we can't give you this car loan today because you know, you're obviously don't 114 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.040 pay your bills. I don't know. It might not be a good thing.