In article , Al Quaglieri wrote:
Back up for a second, you're missing the bigger pictu $10K FINE FOR A
CB'ER!!

This regime at the FCC is totally out of control. They have become the
speed trap in the small town with the hanging judge. Time to get back to
the serious business of regulation and stop playing to the cheap seats with
all the grandstanding and outrageous fines.

This is outrageous? This is actually pretty reasonable. I would like
to see the FCC start actually enforcing interference laws. Around here
we have plenty of CBers with multi-kilowatt boxes that are splattering
all over nearby non-CB bands, plenty of folks selling appliances that
don't even come close to meeting Part 15 requirements, and the FCC has
basically ignored it since the Reagan administration gutted them. I
think $10K for the sort of outrageously illicit operation that is common
on the CB bands is really too small.

The AM broadcast band is horribly degraded today by the amount of
trash floating around on the AM band, mostly due to Part 15 violations.
Cleaning this trash up is the first step toward revitalizing AM and
making it usable for the average listener again.
--scott


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