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he was honestly trying to provide information, was he right or wrong? The
FCC has proposed another fine, this time the highest fine possible, the record
fine, the record setting fine, the highest dollar amount possible. The FCC
has proposed against an amateur radio operator for interfering with fire suppression communications during a
fire. This guy tried to cause interference to amateur radio communications. Look at
this. A while back, I did a video about a proposal of a
fine for a guy interfering with a net. Bad enough, and I'll put
that video right there. I can't see my screen. The screen's backwards to
me. I'll put that video right there, so go check that out.
That was a twenty four thousand dollars fine. Today's fine is a thirty four
thousand dollars fine, a proposed thirty four thousand dollars fine. Now this article
is actually from last year in July, so I don't know. I did
a quick search. I didn't do a deep dive search. I did a
quick search to find out if there was an update to this proposed fine.
Couldn't find it. So anybody who has information on that put that below.
I'd like to know how this turned out. I found this article here on
in Compliance magazine dot com and also on the AWL website, but no follow
ups to it yet. The FCC has proposed a record fine against an amateur
radio operator for interfering with radio communications supporting fire suppression efforts in a twenty twenty
one massive wildfire and Idaho National Forest. Okay, you gotta be a pretty
sad individual to key up music during a net, during a daily debt,
during just a regular check in how you do a net, You've got to
be pretty bored. You got to be pretty bored and have absolutely nothing to
do with your time at all to do that, but to interfere with an
actual emergency communications. Wow. You know what. I shouldn't say what just
popped in my head because it could be construed as violence against someone. I
don't. I don't call for violence against anybody, Okay, but if you
see this guy on the street, I would just say boom. So you
know one of those things, all right. According to a notice of apparent
liability in al for forfeiture, Jason M. Frawley, it saddens me to
know that somebody with the name Jason would cause this kind of interference. Jason
M. Frawley of Lewiston, Idaho, used his amateur handheld radio to intentionally
interfere with radio communications directing fire suppression aircraft that we're combating the Johnson Fire,
a thousand acre wildfire, and Elk River, Idaho. Frawley allegedly transmitted multiple
times over two separate days on frequencies expressly allocated and authorized for government use,
causing harmful interference with the central immunity emergency communications. The FCC has proposed a
monetary furnfeiture of thirty four thousand dollars, the maximum fine allowable incept cases.
Frawley will be given an opportunity to respond in FCCS NAO before the final commission
action is determined. But there's no follow up linked to from this article.
So it sounds to me like I read that like he's using his Ham radio
to interfere with government commercial frequencies. He's not even on amateur radio frequencies.
He's on commercial frequencies, government frequencies, interfering with What the heck man,
what is wrong with you? Serious question? Serious question here? Okay,
this is I say this from the bottom of my heart. What the heck
is wrong with you freaking idiots? I really want to know what is wrong
with you people? You want to interfere with a with a rescue operation.
If you're one of these idiot Hams who heads MCom for whatever reason, you're
not interfering with him radio. He's on a freaking government commercial frequency. So
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
sorry on this a double L article over here again. This was from last
year twenty twenty two. Frawley holds an extra class amateur radio licensee whiskey Ouse
Alpha seven CQ. That's a pretty cool call sign. You want to do
this kind of crap. The FCC alleged that in the n AL that on
July seventeenth to twenty twenty one, using his amateur handheld probably transmitted five times,
and on July twenty, July eighteenth, the next day transmitted three times
on frequencies allocade and authorized for government use, apparently causing harmful interference with his
apparently unlawful true. Apparently apparently they alleged he apparently keyed up eight times in
two days. Okay, all right, oh man, So this article goes
on to say the na L includes details of the four Services complaint and the
FCC's investigation. He argued that he was not trying to cause interference, but
instead was transmitted to provide information to the firefighters. Okay, here's a quote
from mister Frawley. At no time was I trying to disturb any other communications
on air traffic. I was honestly giving them information I had since I had
been working on the butte since the early nineties, wrote Frawley in his October
twenty twenty one response to a letter of inquiry from the FCC. The FCC,
however, concluded that Frawley's admitted unauthorized transmissions on frequencies for which he did
not have license had the potential to cause substantial harm to life and property.
The FCC held that Frawley, by his own admission, apparently will flee and
repeatedly violated the Commission's rules where he made eight separate radio transmissions on a frequency
for which he did not have a license. Again not on him radio frequencies.
The FCC stated that unauthorized transmissions on frequencies licensed to public safety entities,
using those frequencies to respond to emergency communication emergencies also constitutes a violation of Section
three three three of the Communications Act nineteen thirty four is ammended. FCC Chairwoman
Jessica Rosen Warsol added, you can't interfere with public safety communications full stop.
So today we proposed the largest fine of its type for this interference to put
fire suppression public safety at risk. Here's a news release from the FCC.
Let's take this guy is well, I don't know this guy, mister Frawley,
Whiskey Alpha six, Charlie Quebec, I don't I don't know him.
If he was honestly trying to provide information, was he right or wrong?
Regardless with the FCC might say. If he was honestly trying to provide help
to the firefighters and information to the firefighters, was he wrong? Yes or
no. By the letter of the law, I would say that yes,
he is wrong because he's transmitting on frequencies for which he's not authorized. Now,
some people are going to come along in this video and comment that,
oh, well, in an emergency, you can use any form of communication
that you want. True, you can, But an emergency defined by the
FCC in terms of licensing requirements, means an immediate threat to your person or
property. Mister Frawley, Folly, Folly, Frawley, Frawley, According to
the information we have from these two articles, his personal safety was not in
question. He was trying to help firefighters fight a fire. So by the
letter of the law, he was wrong. He didn't have rights to transmit
on those frequencies, and he was not personally and immediately in danger of his
personal property from some sort of threat. But are we going to be such
a society that we try to find people for helping me if he was truly
intentionally trying to help, I don't know. I'd like to know what your
thoughts are. I think I have mixed emotions on it. I think if
it were me in that situation, I might have keyed up. And it
depends on what the subject matter of the radio transmission was. If he could
hear the firefighters talking, and they were they were proposing questions or talking about
something that was wrong, or saying they were looking for something, or they
didn't know something, or they were without this piece of information that he had
at the time, and he keyed up to give them that piece of information.
I might have done that now that I've read this article, I probably
won't, but I might have done that. I mean, I said,
hey, guys, I can see what you're talking about, and it's X
y Z or I can answer that question for you here, here's the answer.
Doesn't change the fact that on paper he was not licensed on those frequencies.
But I want to know what you think. I want to know what
you think about this article is this article is almost a year old, so
and again, if anyone has any follow ups on it, I'd like to
see a follow up article on it. So put a comment. Blow seventy three