Speaker 1: The FCC takes action against several labs in the USA
Speaker 1: that are apparently controlled by China, calling them bad labs
Speaker 1: for the purposes of testing Chinese radio equipment. Check this out.
Speaker 1: This was sent to me by one of you. Got
Speaker 1: an email from you with a link to this Brandan Carr,
Speaker 1: FCC Chairman of the FCC. He put this on X
Speaker 1: or what I call I still call Twitter. The FCC
Speaker 1: has identified seven test labs that are apparently owned or
Speaker 1: controlled by China. Up to now, these labs have been
Speaker 1: authorized review electronics headed for the US, including national security checks.
Speaker 1: We're now taking action to kick bad labs out of
Speaker 1: the US system. So, in other words, I wonder, and
Speaker 1: I've found a link to this. He shared a picture
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He didn't share a link to the actual article.
Speaker 1: So I went onto the FCC website and I found
Speaker 1: a link to this article. I'm going to read this
Speaker 1: to you guys, but I wonder how many of these
Speaker 1: labs were in charge of spurious emissions tests on some
Speaker 1: of the Part ninety or Part ninety five radios that
Speaker 1: we've been getting into the USA from China. I get
Speaker 1: the question and comment several times on videos when I
Speaker 1: post videos about Bowfang's or Reddivist radios or any tone
Speaker 1: radios or anything else out of China, people will say
Speaker 1: something like, I thought these weren't allowed in the USA anymore.
Speaker 1: How can they sell these radios as completely unlocked? They're
Speaker 1: not part ninety or you know, are these legal to sell?
Speaker 1: Is this? This? This? And I'm like, well, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I don't really know the answer to that,
Speaker 1: other than to say, you know, eBay and Amazon you
Speaker 1: can buy kind of anything you want to, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they get around regulations. But more
Speaker 1: than that, I don't know exactly what the regulations are.
Speaker 1: So I know for a fact that the FCC came
Speaker 1: down on Balfang a while back and said that you
Speaker 1: can't sell a fully unlocked UV five R anymore, which
Speaker 1: most of the time, if you buy a UV five
Speaker 1: are on Amazon, it's locked, but it's just simple, like
Speaker 1: a two key process to unlock it. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of pointless in my opinion that they even care about
Speaker 1: that because they're selling a very easily easy to unlock radio.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they should or should not be
Speaker 1: able to be unlocked. I'm just saying this is the
Speaker 1: facts are that locking the radio does very little to
Speaker 1: prevent people from transmitting outside of the amateur radio bands,
Speaker 1: and those UV five R radios are not Part ninety accepted.
Speaker 1: Baufaning does have some Part ninety type accepted radios Part
Speaker 1: ninety certified radios. Part ninety means they're commercial and it
Speaker 1: means they've gone through a little bit extra test and
Speaker 1: they have they're supposed to have less spurious emissions than
Speaker 1: something that is not Part ninety's. It means they're full
Speaker 1: open transmit from about one thirty four to one seventy
Speaker 1: four or one thirty six to one seventy four megahertz
Speaker 1: and four hundred to maybe four eighty or even up
Speaker 1: to five hundred and twenty mega hurts something like that.
Speaker 1: But sometimes Part ninety radios are good and sometimes they're
Speaker 1: not good. So it just it kind of depends. But
Speaker 1: I under if there was anything in these tests that
Speaker 1: there are these labs rather that signified you know, that
Speaker 1: kind of let things slip through the cracks that they
Speaker 1: shouldn't have. Why would any Chinese lab be used? Some
Speaker 1: of the comments here, you know, it's Twitter is a
Speaker 1: dumpster fire of comments and always has been. It might
Speaker 1: be a little bit better today than it used to be.
Speaker 1: Here is the FCC actual document pdf file that I've found.
Speaker 1: Now went back here and I found the bad Labs
Speaker 1: apparently controlled by China article on the FCC dot gov website.
Speaker 1: It's right here, and you can get the press release
Speaker 1: in document or PDF or text file. So I pulled
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Speaker 1: All right, let's zoom in on this right here. News
Speaker 1: from the FCC. Federal Communications Commissioned FCC takes action on
Speaker 1: bad labs quote apparently controlled by China. FCC takes first
Speaker 1: step to enforce recent bad labs rules, beginning proceeding to
Speaker 1: withdraw recognition from foreign adversary owned labs. This article is
Speaker 1: written earlier this month. At the time of this recording
Speaker 1: comes from Washington on September eighth of twenty twenty five. Today,
Speaker 1: the FCC took an initial set of actions to address
Speaker 1: the threats posed by quote bad labs they call it.
Speaker 1: These are labs that review and approve electronics for use
Speaker 1: in the US, but are ultimately owned or controlled by
Speaker 1: a foreign adversary nation. Adversary nation. A lot of you
Speaker 1: come along this channel and you're like CCR Chinese Communist Republic.
Speaker 1: You know, why would you ever buy anything? And again,
Speaker 1: USA manufacturing needs to step up their game. We need
Speaker 1: to get some sort of manufacturing inside the USA because
Speaker 1: there are no handheld radios for any service HAM Radio,
Speaker 1: Commercial Radio GMRS CB, nothing None of that stuff is
Speaker 1: made in the USA. Most all of it is made
Speaker 1: in China. Heck man, if it was made in Mexico
Speaker 1: or South America somewhere, or in Italy, I'd be okay
Speaker 1: with that. But most of it is made in China.
Speaker 1: Some of it's made in Japan. Some of it's made
Speaker 1: in Japan. There's a lot of ham radios that are
Speaker 1: made in Japan. Obviously handheld ham radios for our service
Speaker 1: that are made in Japan. But there's hardly anything that's
Speaker 1: made in Japan for gmrs or stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: a cbe radio that kind of thing. So we need
Speaker 1: to I would like to see a comment in the
Speaker 1: video below, because every time I talk about products that
Speaker 1: are made in USA, all Acraft, Flex Radio, some other stuff,
Speaker 1: Buddy Pool, I get comments about how expensive those items are.
Speaker 1: So put a comment in this video below and tell
Speaker 1: me one of two things. Do you prefer cheap products
Speaker 1: cheaper price or better quality made in the USA products,
Speaker 1: because you can't have both. If someone like Flex Radio
Speaker 1: were to come along and say we're gonna start making
Speaker 1: a duel man HT just as good as their HF radios,
Speaker 1: maybe just as good as a Motorola handheld radio. Okay,
Speaker 1: ht's gonna be upwards of that. It's gonna be north
Speaker 1: of one thousand dollars fifteen hundred eighteen hundred bucks something
Speaker 1: like that. Would you be okay with that? Would you
Speaker 1: want one? Do you think you'd buy one? I doubt
Speaker 1: you'd buy four of them? You probably have four UV
Speaker 1: five rs, right, I doubt you'd buy that many. But
Speaker 1: would you buy one? Would you be okay with a
Speaker 1: high price if it's made in USA? Or would you
Speaker 1: rather have lower prices that are made in other countries?
Speaker 1: Put a comment in the video below. Specifically, the FCC's
Speaker 1: Office of Engineering and Technology issued notices today that begin
Speaker 1: proceedings to withdraw recognition from an initial tranch of these
Speaker 1: bad labs. The FCC adopted this process at its May
Speaker 1: Commission meeting and now takes these actions immediately upon those
Speaker 1: rules becoming effective. The agency has now begun proceedings to
Speaker 1: withdraw recognition from seven test labs owned or controlled by
Speaker 1: the Chinese government. The recognition of four other such labs
Speaker 1: have expired. Since the adoption of our rules will not
Speaker 1: be renewed. Okay. President Trump is leading the charge to
Speaker 1: reshore America's industrial capacity and safeguard critical supply chains from
Speaker 1: foreign adversary nations. Today's FCC action on bad Labs will
Speaker 1: continue to do just that, said the FCC Chairman, Brandon Carr.
Speaker 1: That's that's whose Twitter account we were looking out right here,
Speaker 1: Brandon Carr. Foreign adversary governments should not own and control
Speaker 1: the labs that test the devices the FCC certifies as
Speaker 1: safe for the US market. This is an important step
Speaker 1: in restoring trust in the commissions equipment authorization process and
Speaker 1: combating foreign adversary threats. I commend OEt, the Enforcement Bureau,
Speaker 1: and the Agency's Council on Natural Security for their work
Speaker 1: on this action, and it goes on to talk about
Speaker 1: some other government agencies down here. So I think this
Speaker 1: is a good thing. I don't really think that foreign
Speaker 1: labs foreign companies should control test labs in the United States.
Speaker 1: I don't think foreign companies should control there's certain things. Instead,
Speaker 1: a foreign person or an immigrant who is naturalized and
Speaker 1: has become a citizen, of course, that's totally fine. But
Speaker 1: a foreign company that's owned and operated overseas, I don't
Speaker 1: really care what the country is. I don't really think
Speaker 1: they should be controlling this type of test lab inside
Speaker 1: of the United States. So what do you guys think.
Speaker 1: Do you think that this is a good or a
Speaker 1: bad action by the FCC. I personally think this this
Speaker 1: type of thing is more what the FCC should be doing.
Speaker 1: They should be not worried so much about what's happening
Speaker 1: inside the borders, but worrying about stuff that's coming into
Speaker 1: the country from outside of the United States borders and
Speaker 1: regulating more of that. So it's not really regulating stuff
Speaker 1: that US citizens are doing as much. It is as
Speaker 1: regulating companies and individuals outside of the United States trying
Speaker 1: to push products into the import industry of this country.
Speaker 1: So I think this is kind of what they should
Speaker 1: be doing a little bit more than looking at people
Speaker 1: for bad transmitters on their GMRS towers or something like that.
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