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We should be going after ILLEGAL aliens and not the wives of our heroes who happen to be of foreign birth. Immigration is going after the easy marks for easy stats. This is SHAMEFUL and DISGUSTING behavior of our government.
(Huntingtown, MD) On the morning of August 28, 2007, just before 8:00 AM, during a rather strong tropospheric ducting event a radio system on 462.5375 MHz was heard and recorded. What was unusual about this radio system? It is a pirate commercial system, one of several brought to the attention of the Federal Communications Commission in the first few years of the Personal Radio Association’s Enforcement Program. This particular system is still in the process of being identified. (This system is probably in New York or New Jersey.)
A scofflaw radio business placed a customer on a radio frequency pair for which the customer holds no FCC license for operation. The frequency is a band-edge channel that no person, company, or organization is authorized by license to use anywhere in the USA. The responsible company did so to avoid charging the customer commercial frequency coordination fees and FCC license fees. The company makes more money for themselves and suckers the customer. The radio shop chose this channel probably thinking that no one would notice. The trouble for this radio shop is that licensees of the General Mobile Radio Service that snugs up against this band-edge channel did notice. The trouble for the customer-company using the unlicensed system is that they are now at risk of receiving an expensive FCC fine.
It has been a sad but true story of continuing illegal and fraudulent activity for the American two-way radio business nationwide. Members of the PRA, even before its creation in 2005, have reported such systems to the FCC. The radio companies responsible are not limited to tiny independent mom and pop radio shops. Large regional and national companies identified by licensees have been at this for years – some more than most. It is one major reason why the PRA Board of Trustees had representatives meet with the FCC in Washington D.C. Enforcement Bureau in 2005.
It is not uncommon for GMRS licensees to find very sophisticated radio systems illegally positioned on frequencies not intended for use by companies and organizations. There is another as yet unidentified system found by licensees in Edison , NJ. An extremely active pirate radio system is located somewhere within the major industrial park located in this city. This system uses two Family Radio Service frequencies for a radio repeater system! FRS channel 4, 462.6375 is the repeater output. During tropospheric ducting events this system can be heard in Maryland! This channel is allocated ONLY to one-half watt FRS radios or five watt ERP GMRS radios and is intended for short range family communication. That did not matter to the scofflaw radio shop that put their customer on that frequency.
The sad truth is that many victim-companies are placed in the position of being unlawful intruders without their knowledge. This occurs across the GMRS and business radio service bands. Responsible are radio companies with little or no moral interest in obeying communications law. Their own commercial interests matter not the customer. It is one reason the FCC exists today, to manage spectrum and protect it for those licensed to use that spectrum.
In the last two years the personal Radio Association asked the FCC to look at:
The FCC is helping and the PRA is happy for the assistance. What would really be nice is that all the radio shops would obey the rules so everyone could enjoy and use the tiny slices of spectrum assigned to them without unnecessary interference.
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