Here's another WARNING.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
ENFORCEMENT BUREAU NORTHEAST REGION
Detroit Office
24897 Hathaway Street
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48375

April 18, 2008

(Sent via Certified Return Receipt Requested and First Class U.S. Mail)

Donald Damron
Akron, Ohio

NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION
Case Number: EB-08-DT-0052
Document Number: W200832360012

The Detroit Office received information that your Citizens Band ("CB") Radio Service station was being operated illegally and causing interference in Akron, Ohio. On April 3, 2008, an agent from this office inspected the radio station at your residence and confirmed that you were operating a RCI-2990 radio in your home and a RCI-2950 mobile in your vehicle, which are non-certified CB transceivers.
Section 95.409(a) of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R. S: 95.409(a), states that "[u]se of a transmitter which is not FCC certified voids your authority to operate the station." By using non- certified transceivers, you voided your authority to operate this station. Radio stations must be licensed by the FCC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. S: 301. You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of the Federal laws cited above and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines, in rem arrest action against the offending radio equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment.
(see 47 U.S.C. S:S: 401, 501, 503 and 510).
UNLICENSED OPERATION OF THIS RADIO STATION MUST BE DISCONTINUED IMMEDIATELY. You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond regarding the operation of your CB station. Your response should be sent to the address in the letterhead and reference the listed case and document number. Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. S: 552a(e)(3), we are informing you that the Commission's staff will use all relevant material information before it to determine what, if any, enforcement action is required to ensure your compliance with FCC Rules. This will include any information that you disclose in your reply.
You may contact this office if you have any questions.
James A. Bridgewater, District Director, FCC
Detroit Office
Attachments: Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended Enforcement Bureau, "Inspection Fact Sheet", July 2003

But we never hear about tha hams that screw up? Makes ya think this guy has a agenda?

There's no "agenda" Anyone that wants to read ALL the FCC actions are welcome to exercize their initiative and go to www.fcc.gov/eb to find them.

For years, it was believed by CBers (with some accuracy) that they couldn't be touched for their interference, their blatant snubbing of the rules, their use of illegal equipment and, encroachment into the ham bands. It is no longer true, thanks to Mr Hollingsworth's steadfast initiative and insistance that the amateur bands be protected from the hordes of violators that would otherwise flood them with hopeless interference and pure nonsense! Now we have others within FCC, such as Mr James Bridgewater, who has smacked some hands and shook out some wallets!!!

For those who point to the relatively FEW FCC actions against amateurs, it is that very number, or LACK thereof, that demonstrates the fact of the matter. That being, that IF FCC had the funding (and Congress who does not understand the workings of electronics), the actual numbers of busts against CB operators versus that of amateurs would FAR exceed that 6-8 published actions against hams: HUNDREDS out of a million casual CB users against those 6-8 within the 600,000 or so hams!


If there is any "agenda" at all, it is to show that:

1. FCC WILL come after both CBer AND ham IF he causes complaints

2. And that the licensed folks simply will not sit idly by and permit the theft of our frequencies by unlicensed outlaws!

I see NO contradition, therefore, in the posting of those actions.


CWM

I like how you use the word theft. Theft of what? what do do own that a interloaper stole?

...the same thing that's lost when an unlicensed driver uses a street or highway.
- 'Doc

since the feds are worried about unlicensed operation I think the guy should write the FCC and tell them he is studying for his tech ticket. That should get them off his back and he can used both his rigs as he was before.

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"I'll do the thinnin' around here Baba Looey"

" would you like some more beans Mr. Taggert"??? NO !!!,, I'd say you've already had enough "

All getting a license does is allow him to operate those radios on 10/12m. They are still not legal to operate on CB freqs. which is what he was doing hence the referance to "Citizens Band ("CB") Radio Service station".

Wow...that's....poetic.

You know CW, I've been a ham going on 14 years. Earned my Extra the hard way--20 WPM code.

As I tuned across 75/80 last night about 12 AM local, I could count on both hands the number of SSB QSOs across the whole band (and the band was relatively open for a change). Down in the CW portion there wasn't a soul. Same on 40. And same on 20 (but at that time of the night I doubt 20 was open). And the QSOs that were going on in the middle of the night on 80? Let's say most were not the most technically enlightening, morally upstanding, or in no way advanced the radio art.

Where's the great masses that were supposed to invade HF with the dropping of the code requirement? They haven't materialized.

My point being this. We don't use the bands we have. And when we use them...well...what's the difference between us "flooding them with hopeless interference and pure nonsense" and someone else doing it?? Not much in my book.

You know...all this time we were worried about CBers invading hamdom, when in reality, hams have just de-evolved into glorified CBers. And that's sad, because we (just a decade ago) were much, much better than that.

They were sleeping because they have jobs to wake up for ;-)

Seriously...you were surprised at midnight not to find that many people on but the whackos?

Try 4pm-9pm when the band is good and solid and short, it's packed (75m). Lately the band goes long by 9pm or so and if you don't have a kW to run, you aren't going to do much talking then, particularly with all the static crashes of the past few nights. You need to be S9+10 to have a comfortable signal under the conditions of the last few nights.

i dont understand the obsession with cb'ers on 10 or 12 meters that some hams seem to have . like were gonna ruin the other 157 meters or the centimeter bands .

"thanks to Mr Hollingsworth's steadfast initiative and insistance that the amateur bands be protected from the hordes of violators that would otherwise flood them with hopeless interference and pure nonsense! Now we have others within FCC, such as Mr James Bridgewater, who has smacked some hands and shook out some wallets!!!"

did you smoke a cigarette after you wrote that ? was it as good for the keyboard as it was for you ?

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