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ENFORCEMENT: SELL THOSE AMPS AND GO TO JAIL
While the
FCC says that it may eventually change the rules regarding the
current prohibition on the sale of R-F power amplifiers capable of 10
and 12 meter operation, as of today they are still illegal. Anything
marketed must be
FCC certified and the agency has told a Texas
businessman that he could go to jail if he does not stop selling some
that are not. The
FCC's Daryl Duckworth, NN0W, explains:
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Duckworth: "A warning notice went to Donald Hewitt, of Tomball, Texas.
It stated that continued sale of non certified equipment would submit
him to fine or imprisonment.
This case dates back to the Dayton Hamvention in 1999 involving the sale
of WM-300 and WM-600 power amplifiers. We note that at his website
these units are again for sale and that he has presented them for sale
in the parking lot of the Houston Amateur Radio Supply and at the
Smithville, Texas, hamfest this year."
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By way of background, Hewitt was issued an Official Notice of Violation
of violation of Section 2.815 of the Commission's rules regarding
manufacturing and marketing external radio frequency power amplifiers
that operated below 144 Mhz. This, after he showed them at the 1999
Dayton Hamvention. He subsequently agreed to stop and the matter was
dropped until it was brought to the
FCC's attention that he again had
them for sale. Now the
FCC says that Hewitt had better cease offering
the units or he could face time behind prison bars. (
FCC, RAIN)
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