In article .net, "OH YEAH"
writes:

I have no idea how or IF the FCC goes about
"monitoring" the bands.

From what I have seen for many years, they don't do that very much any more.
What FCC does is to respond to complaints.

But the complaints have to be substantive. "So-and-so was on 75 meters last
night and was jamming" doesn't cut it. An audio tape of the the offensive
transmission, and a signed letter with date, time, frequency and other
pertinent info is what FCC wants.

A single complaint isn't going to get much reaction, usually, but a bunch of
them from different people will.

I thought that was what the "elite" Official
Observer (OO) club was for. You know, the bunch that the ARRL makes you test
for and then says you're a qualified "turner inner"?

That's not the purpose nor the function of OOs at all.

The Official Observer idea is to *avoid* FCC involvement. Originally, it was
about signal quality - being in the band, having a clean signal, etc. Hopefully
an OO would tell you about an out-of-band harmonic or a clicky signal before
FCC did.

Nowadays such technical violations aren't so common, but operating violations
still happen. Like not IDing often enough.

73 de Jim, N2EY