weatherman49 said:
If this be the case then why can't or won't they do anything to the people who use this band without a ticket??
Enforcement is left up to the governmental telecommunications sectors of each ITU member country. In the U.S., the organization responsible for adherence to treatied band plans, the establishment of country-specific rules of usage and the enforcement of those rules is the FCC. Industry Canada handles Canadian telecommunications issues...analogues of these organization exist in every country that is a signatory member of the ITU.
The FCC can and will do something about intruders, as has been evidenced by the many NALs issued over the course of the past few years. Other countries' enforcement actions may be lax, or they may be very strict indeed. Europe is one place where you do not want to bootleg these days.
Yes believe it or not I do and have actually read them doesn't nessaraly mean I agree with them!
I've read our local and county laws as they relate to shooting a full-auto, silenced (Class 3) firearm in my backyard. I don't agree with said laws either, but I must abide by them if I'm to remain A) Out of jail; B) In possession of my firearms.
Kind of hard to make that limitation when the atmosphere is what determines the distance a signal travels right?
Very easy to determine...if you are on the east coast and hear a west coast station calling CQ, don't work him! (Personally, I feel that this is the
silliest rule in the entire Part 95 section of 47 CFR...but...rules is rules, and I'm thinking as a Commissioner would when said person is considering a motion for spectrum reassignment.)
even if all 11m Ops ran only 4w carrier there would still be skip under certain conditions!
Correct. We call that 'QRP'. I've worked Australia on 10M CW using 5w to an old RadShack 5/8w vertical.
spaeking of 4w carrier is that modulated carrier or not my copy does not specify?
That is carrier without modulation. Modulate the radio to 100% and you should see a 3dB (2x) power increase...2w in each additional sideband, for a total of 8w.
I can make any radio dk 4w but start talkin and see what happens!
Are we talking type-accepted equipment here, or the so-called 'export' stuff? The math used to determine power output of a modulated AM RF waveform is fairly straightforward; see the example above. If your
legal CB transceiver is correctly tuned, you should see no more AM power output than that.
Again who is the last word here FCC or ITU?
When a
worldwide service allocation is concerned, the ITU has the last word - but leaves it up to member-states to govern their citizens' operation within the given allocation. Such allocations cannot be locally reassigned and are in fact protected from such.
On the other hand...if a spectrum segment is designated by the ITU as multiple-use on a country-by-country or a region-by-region basis (such as with 11M here in the U.S.), the member countries themselves can create band plans to suit their needs. Another good example of this is the upper end of the 40M amateur band. In ITU Region 1 (and Region 3, IIRC) it is a shortwave broadcast band, while in Region 2 it is designated exclusively as an amateur band.