Speaker 1: Prohibited Chinese electronics. Something after the bad Labs video that
Speaker 1: I put out a couple of weeks ago, some retailers
Speaker 1: are talking about removing products from certain Chinese companies, and
Speaker 1: other people are talking about a Ham radio band. But which,
Speaker 1: what are the details and what is this really and
Speaker 1: are we gonna see more of it? I think so?
Speaker 1: But let's look at this article today. So I ran
Speaker 1: across a video on YouTube while I was researching this
Speaker 1: article that I found on Reuters dot com. And the
Speaker 1: video was titled Ham Radio Crackdown the Band that No
Speaker 1: One Saw coming. And I think that that's a bit ambiguous.
Speaker 1: So I find this to be a little bit well, uninformed,
Speaker 1: is the is the good word for it. Uninformed. It's
Speaker 1: a video about a Ham radio. Like I said, it's
Speaker 1: called Ham Radio Crackdown the band No One Saw coming.
Speaker 1: In Again, I was researching this article that I found
Speaker 1: through one of my Google news feeds, and this is
Speaker 1: the article that I found right here, and that's the
Speaker 1: article that I'm going to share with you today. Now.
Speaker 1: To be clear, this article never talks about Ham radio
Speaker 1: at all. It never mentions anything about Ham radio. It
Speaker 1: never mentions anything about a Ham radio manufacturer. It talks
Speaker 1: about three or four different Chinese manufacturers. None of them
Speaker 1: are hand radio manufacturers. Okay, So someone who is talking
Speaker 1: about tech that they don't know about my mistake. One
Speaker 1: of these retailers for a Ham radio manufacturers. I can certainly.
Speaker 1: I think it's an honest mistake. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anything nefarious going on here. I don't think he's trying
Speaker 1: to deceive anybody. I don't think anyone's trying to deceive anybody.
Speaker 1: Whoever I'm talking about. I'm not talking about anyone specific. Okay,
Speaker 1: but let's read this article together and let me tell
Speaker 1: you what I think about it. Okay. Major US online
Speaker 1: retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now read what that says. US online retailers remove listings
Speaker 1: for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics. Okay, So that doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything to me about the FCC at all. However,
Speaker 1: the FCC is quoted in this article. Okay. Summary, FCC
Speaker 1: says millions of listings for Chinese electronics online retail website
Speaker 1: has been removed. Okay, FCC says that listings of Chinese
Speaker 1: electronics has been removed US telecom regulator has taken series
Speaker 1: of steps to crack down on Chinese telecoms, and latest
Speaker 1: action comes amid rising tension between Washington and Beijing on
Speaker 1: numerous fronts. And I think that could be likened back
Speaker 1: to the article that we read here on this channel
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago about the crackdown on Chinese own test
Speaker 1: labs that the FCC is trying to do right now
Speaker 1: to maintain better quality control about what they do and
Speaker 1: don't put their stamp on. Now, the FCC, regardless of
Speaker 1: what you think about the FCC, if the FCC's stamp
Speaker 1: and name and approval are going to go onto a product,
Speaker 1: and they should absolutely one hundred percent have complete say
Speaker 1: so of over what their stamp does and does not
Speaker 1: go onto. Okay. So if they don't want their stamp
Speaker 1: going onto a product, they shouldn't have to have it there, Okay.
Speaker 1: So now they can be a little bit restrictive and
Speaker 1: a little bit overbearing and over controlling at times, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't do any sometimes they're very lax and
Speaker 1: don't do anything. And we're not really talking about any
Speaker 1: of that today. We're just kind of reading through this
Speaker 1: article that I found and I wanted to show you
Speaker 1: guys today. So this was October tenth, which was a
Speaker 1: week and a half or so ago at the time
Speaker 1: of this recording. The chair of the FCC, Brendan Carr,
Speaker 1: which we talked about him in a previous video as well,
Speaker 1: said in an interview that the items removed are either
Speaker 1: on a US list of barred equipment or we're not
Speaker 1: authorized by the agency, including items like home security cameras
Speaker 1: and smart watches from company called companies like Huawei. Talked
Speaker 1: about them before a long time ago. They were I
Speaker 1: used to own a four G hotspot that was made
Speaker 1: by Whuahwei, hang Zoo, Hike Vision, Hickvision, Zte, and Dahua Technology.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not familiar with any of these, but if
Speaker 1: you click on these links that they're linked from here,
Speaker 1: it takes you to another routers page, Reuter's page. If
Speaker 1: you scroll down here and you click on the website
Speaker 1: the u URL for these companies like these guys are
Speaker 1: making like home security cameras. That's what you want. You
Speaker 1: want China being able to tap into a home security
Speaker 1: camera that they manufactured and you know, look at your
Speaker 1: driveway or whatever, or look at the inside of your home,
Speaker 1: depending on where you put your camera. But if you
Speaker 1: look at all the I mean all of these websites
Speaker 1: basically look the same. To me, it looks like the
Speaker 1: same designer designed all these websites. And they're all kind
Speaker 1: of like with this floating htm A five or flash
Speaker 1: or whatever. They're not nobody uses flash anymore, but whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever the technology is that makes all this hover go
Speaker 1: around the website. I'm not a web developer. I can't
Speaker 1: talk about that, but I mean they kind of a
Speaker 1: look the same. It's just I don't know. I find
Speaker 1: a little bit suspect that all of these websites to
Speaker 1: this soun. I wonder if it's all the same company anyway.
Speaker 1: Car said. Companies are putting new processes in place to
Speaker 1: prevent future prohibited items as a result of the FCC oversight.
Speaker 1: We're going to keep up with our efforts. Car said,
Speaker 1: keep our efforts up. The FCC has issued a new
Speaker 1: National Security knows for reminding companies prohibited items, including video
Speaker 1: surveillance equipment. Car said some of the items could allow
Speaker 1: China to surveil Americans, disrupt communications networks, and otherwise threaten
Speaker 1: US national security. Yeah, I mean, if a Chinese company
Speaker 1: shows you a product through Amazon, through eBay, through wherever,
Speaker 1: through another retailer, and they can tap into that product
Speaker 1: and monitor it through some back door that they put
Speaker 1: in the programming software, then yeah, that's totally that's nobody
Speaker 1: wants that. It's totally illegitimate. It's something the FCC should
Speaker 1: crack down on, and I'm one hundred percent for that.
Speaker 1: But what's this have to do with him radio? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's read on. So he goes on here and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put I'll put this, I'll put this article link
Speaker 1: and blow. It's not a very long article article at all. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can see this right here and it said it
Speaker 1: talks about z T Huawei ZTE here again, China Mobile
Speaker 1: and China Telecom, which again I went to their websites
Speaker 1: and these are very similar looking websites also, and China Mobile.
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like a DMR Digital Mobile Radio.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's not really. It's talking about all
Speaker 1: these investors and press release and dividends and financial statements
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah and stock prices et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I don't know what these people make. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they make anything at all that would affect you
Speaker 1: and I. But the part that does affect you and
Speaker 1: I right here, if you scroll down and you find
Speaker 1: this place right here, it says. In March, FCC said
Speaker 1: it was investigating nine Chinese companies on the covered list,
Speaker 1: including huawez Ete we talked about then, as well as
Speaker 1: High Terra Communications, Dahua, Pacifica Networks, com net China, Unicom Americas,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So High Terra is the company that is
Speaker 1: supposedly making Ham radios and are supposedly getting banned according
Speaker 1: to some other video that I've found. Well, okay, well,
Speaker 1: here's the truth of it here right here, Okay, High
Speaker 1: Terra does not make Ham radios anymore than Motorola makes
Speaker 1: Ham radios. You can absolutely one percent use a high
Speaker 1: Terra on Ham radio bands if it covers those bands.
Speaker 1: There's nothing illegal about that at all. It's completely legitimate.
Speaker 1: And I know several guys who have a High Tira
Speaker 1: radio and they you know, they sound good. In fact,
Speaker 1: I know several Motorola guys who have High Terra radios
Speaker 1: that say that claim they sound better than their Motorola radios.
Speaker 1: About seven years ago at Daytonham Mention, High Terra made
Speaker 1: an appearance on the scene of amateur radio and announced
Speaker 1: a new AR four eighty two g DMRHT. It was
Speaker 1: monoband they actually sent me one. I did a video
Speaker 1: about it, and I'll link that somewhere in here. And
Speaker 1: then a year or so after that they just kind
Speaker 1: of disappeared. Now I learned later what that reasoning was.
Speaker 1: They backed out of the game for some reason. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what it was right now. But this is
Speaker 1: the only as far as I know, this is the
Speaker 1: only amateur radio made, only radio made by High Terra
Speaker 1: for the amateur radio market. So today and then this was,
Speaker 1: like I said seven years ago, Today they don't make
Speaker 1: anything for the amateur radio market at all. Again, you
Speaker 1: can use high Terra, you can use high Terra on
Speaker 1: amateur radio frequencies. You can totally do that. But it's
Speaker 1: not this is not a This is not a People
Speaker 1: think of banned band Chinese electronics and they think Bowfang.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in this article about Bowfang. There's nothing in
Speaker 1: this article about any tone, tyt kyd, Tai, Tarra, KAIDERA,
Speaker 1: several of these other sounding ones. Hi Terra is the
Speaker 1: only two way radio that's mentioned in this article. Okay,
Speaker 1: And he talks about these FCC probing if Chinese tech
Speaker 1: telecom firms seeking to evade restrictions. This is another article here,
Speaker 1: and he's talked about nine different companies and there's no
Speaker 1: one other than hi Tera mentioned in this article as well,
Speaker 1: not any of the not any of the companies, not
Speaker 1: any of the companies that you and I would recognize
Speaker 1: as Chinese made radios that you know, we might buy
Speaker 1: on Amazon or see people carrying around anfest or anything
Speaker 1: like that at all. So, now, if we're talking about
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Speaker 1: of these websites I'm clicking on or talking about camera
Speaker 1: equipment and video surveillance equipment. And I find it interesting
Speaker 1: that Hiterra is mixed in there because they're a two
Speaker 1: way radio manufacturer, but you know what, they do other
Speaker 1: stuff besides just two way radio. Wal So whether it's
Speaker 1: ham radio or commercial radio, hi Terra is just a
Speaker 1: Chinese electronics manufacturing company. So whether or not, I mean
Speaker 1: again that there's five to six different five or six
Speaker 1: different companies listed in this Reuter's ad that we're looking
Speaker 1: at here, and Hitera is the only one that when
Speaker 1: we look at it, we think, oh, that's a radio manufacturer,
Speaker 1: and they are, but they likely do other things too,
Speaker 1: because everybody else talked about here, even that China mobile one,
Speaker 1: even that one, when I talked about that one, I
Speaker 1: never really saw anything on their website that was radio related.
Speaker 1: So it seems like and according to this statement that
Speaker 1: the FCC chairman made, it seems like they're more going
Speaker 1: after video surveillance equipment from this most recent article, at least,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I read it, and i'd be
Speaker 1: interested to see what you guys think about that in
Speaker 1: the comment section blow as well. I don't really think
Speaker 1: that there's much to this. They might the FCC, again,
Speaker 1: I must read it, reiterate the title of this article.
Speaker 1: There's nothing about a ban at all. In this title.
Speaker 1: It says major US online re tailors remove listings for
Speaker 1: millions of prohibited Chinese electronics. So the FCC is working
Speaker 1: to prohibit certain things that they think might contain surveillance
Speaker 1: illegal surveillance measures. And this article specifically is as mentioning
Speaker 1: US online retailers that have chosen to remove listings of
Speaker 1: those products from their store. It doesn't say anything about Amazon,
Speaker 1: but you kind of assume that's talking about Amazon is
Speaker 1: removing these listings. And if we go over here to
Speaker 1: Amazon and we search for high Terra. There's a BD
Speaker 1: five oh two. Okay, this is a UHF only four
Speaker 1: hundred and four to seventy megahertz forty eight channel four.
Speaker 1: Why UHFHT for three hundred dollars with no screen on it,
Speaker 1: just like a motor roller radio. High Terra is very
Speaker 1: good quality. The high Terra ones the radios that I
Speaker 1: have seen and used in the past, which is not
Speaker 1: very many, okay, but the ones I have seen and
Speaker 1: used in the past are quite good as far as
Speaker 1: reception that. They have good front end rejection, They have
Speaker 1: a good audio both transmit and receive audio. They are
Speaker 1: well made radios, so it kind of surprises me that
Speaker 1: they're on this list at all. However, they're not ham radios, okay,
Speaker 1: they're commercial grade radios. This one here looks like it's
Speaker 1: a dual band forty eight channels, eight pre program channels.
Speaker 1: No FCC license needed, it says right there, So that
Speaker 1: tells me it's the pre program channels are probably somewhere
Speaker 1: in the MERS or FR. If they're in FRS range,
Speaker 1: then this radios are a radio legal so I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what that means. Says. Frequency is both one thirty
Speaker 1: six to one seventy four and four fifty to four
Speaker 1: to seventy Okay, so it doesn't even go it goes
Speaker 1: one thirty six to one seventy four and four fifty
Speaker 1: to four seventy. So it does not cover this one
Speaker 1: does not cover the UHF seventy centimeter or amateur radio band.
Speaker 1: So you can find a few other things. They've got
Speaker 1: some network radios. You can find a few other things
Speaker 1: about High Terra on Amazon. But they are not They're
Speaker 1: they're a very good commercial grade radio manufacturer that apparently
Speaker 1: did something to piss off the fcs SE. I don't
Speaker 1: really know what, but they're not They're not Ham radios anyway.
Speaker 1: So all of that to say that I think the
Speaker 1: big scare of banning High Terra's is number one. It
Speaker 1: looks like it's just a scare because they're still listed
Speaker 1: on Amazon right now, and I don't know what the
Speaker 1: FCC has said about High Terra, but I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't really look it up and research it because they're
Speaker 1: not actually Ham radios. When they when the FCC says
Speaker 1: something about banning Baofang, I'll make another video about that.
Speaker 1: But what do you guys think. Have you heard more
Speaker 1: on this? Have you seen this article on Reuter's because
Speaker 1: again that's this is something that came across my news feed,
Speaker 1: and I like to make videos like this that are
Speaker 1: talking about FCC and the efforts they keep doing to
Speaker 1: uh to you know, in theory of improve radio communications
Speaker 1: and radio quality inside of the USA. Have you heard
Speaker 1: about this? What do you think about it? What do
Speaker 1: you think should be next? And do you own a
Speaker 1: high terror radio? Do you own a high terror radio
Speaker 1: that you currently use on amateur radio bands? Let me
Speaker 1: know the model number in the comments section. Blow love
Speaker 1: to see what you think about tell me your opinion
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