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The Ham Radio two point zero audio
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listening to this podcast. So basically
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But I want to welcome you and
thank you for joining the audio section of

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this series on Ham Radio. I
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appreciate you leaving us a comment or
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from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. If

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he was honestly trying to provide information, was he right or wrong? The

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FCC has proposed another fine, this
time the highest fine possible, the record

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fine, the record setting fine,
the highest dollar amount possible. The FCC

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has proposed against an amateur radio operator
for interfering with fire suppression communications during a

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fire. This guy tried to cause
interference to amateur radio communications. Look at

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this. A while back, I
did a video about a proposal of a

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fine for a guy interfering with a
net. Bad enough, and I'll put

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that video right there. I can't
see my screen. The screen's backwards to

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me. I'll put that video right
there, so go check that out.

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That was a twenty four thousand dollars
fine. Today's fine is a thirty four

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thousand dollars fine, a proposed thirty
four thousand dollars fine. Now this article

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is actually from last year in July, so I don't know. I did

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a quick search. I didn't do
a deep dive search. I did a

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quick search to find out if there
was an update to this proposed fine.

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Couldn't find it. So anybody who
has information on that put that below.

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I'd like to know how this turned
out. I found this article here on

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in Compliance magazine dot com and also
on the AWL website, but no follow

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ups to it yet. The FCC
has proposed a record fine against an amateur

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radio operator for interfering with radio communications
supporting fire suppression efforts in a twenty twenty

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one massive wildfire and Idaho National Forest. Okay, you gotta be a pretty

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sad individual to key up music during
a net, during a daily debt,

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during just a regular check in how
you do a net, You've got to

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be pretty bored. You got to
be pretty bored and have absolutely nothing to

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do with your time at all to
do that, but to interfere with an

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actual emergency communications. Wow. You
know what. I shouldn't say what just

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popped in my head because it could
be construed as violence against someone. I

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don't. I don't call for violence
against anybody, Okay, but if you

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see this guy on the street,
I would just say boom. So you

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know one of those things, all
right. According to a notice of apparent

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liability in al for forfeiture, Jason
M. Frawley, it saddens me to

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know that somebody with the name Jason
would cause this kind of interference. Jason

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M. Frawley of Lewiston, Idaho, used his amateur handheld radio to intentionally

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interfere with radio communications directing fire suppression
aircraft that we're combating the Johnson Fire,

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a thousand acre wildfire, and Elk
River, Idaho. Frawley allegedly transmitted multiple

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times over two separate days on frequencies
expressly allocated and authorized for government use,

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causing harmful interference with the central immunity
emergency communications. The FCC has proposed a

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monetary furnfeiture of thirty four thousand dollars, the maximum fine allowable incept cases.

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Frawley will be given an opportunity to
respond in FCCS NAO before the final commission

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action is determined. But there's no
follow up linked to from this article.

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So it sounds to me like I
read that like he's using his Ham radio

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to interfere with government commercial frequencies.
He's not even on amateur radio frequencies.

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He's on commercial frequencies, government frequencies, interfering with What the heck man,

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what is wrong with you? Serious
question? Serious question here? Okay,

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this is I say this from the
bottom of my heart. What the heck

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is wrong with you freaking idiots?
I really want to know what is wrong

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with you people? You want to
interfere with a with a rescue operation.

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If you're one of these idiot Hams
who heads MCom for whatever reason, you're

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not interfering with him radio. He's
on a freaking government commercial frequency. So

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why why why would you do that? I don't get it. I really

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for supporting this channel. There's a
few more details on this FCC. I'm

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sorry on this a double L article
over here again. This was from last

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year twenty twenty two. Frawley holds
an extra class amateur radio licensee whiskey Ouse

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Alpha seven CQ. That's a pretty
cool call sign. You want to do

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this kind of crap. The FCC
alleged that in the n AL that on

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July seventeenth to twenty twenty one,
using his amateur handheld probably transmitted five times,

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and on July twenty, July eighteenth, the next day transmitted three times

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on frequencies allocade and authorized for government
use, apparently causing harmful interference with his

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apparently unlawful true. Apparently apparently they
alleged he apparently keyed up eight times in

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two days. Okay, all right, oh man, So this article goes

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on to say the na L includes
details of the four Services complaint and the

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FCC's investigation. He argued that he
was not trying to cause interference, but

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instead was transmitted to provide information to
the firefighters. Okay, here's a quote

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from mister Frawley. At no time
was I trying to disturb any other communications

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on air traffic. I was honestly
giving them information I had since I had

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been working on the butte since the
early nineties, wrote Frawley in his October

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twenty twenty one response to a letter
of inquiry from the FCC. The FCC,

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however, concluded that Frawley's admitted unauthorized
transmissions on frequencies for which he did

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not have license had the potential to
cause substantial harm to life and property.

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The FCC held that Frawley, by
his own admission, apparently will flee and

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repeatedly violated the Commission's rules where he
made eight separate radio transmissions on a frequency

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for which he did not have a
license. Again not on him radio frequencies.

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The FCC stated that unauthorized transmissions on
frequencies licensed to public safety entities,

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using those frequencies to respond to emergency
communication emergencies also constitutes a violation of Section

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three three three of the Communications Act
nineteen thirty four is ammended. FCC Chairwoman

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Jessica Rosen Warsol added, you can't
interfere with public safety communications full stop.

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So today we proposed the largest fine
of its type for this interference to put

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fire suppression public safety at risk.
Here's a news release from the FCC.

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Let's take this guy is well,
I don't know this guy, mister Frawley,

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Whiskey Alpha six, Charlie Quebec,
I don't I don't know him.

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If he was honestly trying to provide
information, was he right or wrong?

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Regardless with the FCC might say.
If he was honestly trying to provide help

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to the firefighters and information to the
firefighters, was he wrong? Yes or

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no. By the letter of the
law, I would say that yes,

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he is wrong because he's transmitting on
frequencies for which he's not authorized. Now,

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some people are going to come along
in this video and comment that,

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oh, well, in an emergency, you can use any form of communication

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that you want. True, you
can, But an emergency defined by the

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FCC in terms of licensing requirements,
means an immediate threat to your person or

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property. Mister Frawley, Folly,
Folly, Frawley, Frawley, According to

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the information we have from these two
articles, his personal safety was not in

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question. He was trying to help
firefighters fight a fire. So by the

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letter of the law, he was
wrong. He didn't have rights to transmit

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on those frequencies, and he was
not personally and immediately in danger of his

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personal property from some sort of threat. But are we going to be such

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a society that we try to find
people for helping me if he was truly

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intentionally trying to help, I don't
know. I'd like to know what your

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thoughts are. I think I have
mixed emotions on it. I think if

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it were me in that situation,
I might have keyed up. And it

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depends on what the subject matter of
the radio transmission was. If he could

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hear the firefighters talking, and they
were they were proposing questions or talking about

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something that was wrong, or saying
they were looking for something, or they

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didn't know something, or they were
without this piece of information that he had

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at the time, and he keyed
up to give them that piece of information.

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I might have done that now that
I've read this article, I probably

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won't, but I might have done
that. I mean, I said,

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hey, guys, I can see
what you're talking about, and it's X

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y Z or I can answer that
question for you here, here's the answer.

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Doesn't change the fact that on paper
he was not licensed on those frequencies.

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But I want to know what you
think. I want to know what

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you think about this article is this
article is almost a year old, so

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and again, if anyone has any
follow ups on it, I'd like to

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see a follow up article on it. So put a comment. Blow seventy three