RadioBanter - View Single Post - Beware of hams planting dis-information...

May 6th 05, 04:19 PM

From: (Dave=A0Hall)
On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:43:08 -0400, (I
AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote:
From: (Dave=A0Hall)
On Tue, 3 May 2005 09:39:13 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:
(The car, as is the radio spectrum, mine!!! My car is NOT the DMV's, my
radio spectrum is NOT the FCC's.... )

The FCC owns the rights to the radio

spectrum in this country.

That is ludicrous. They do not. They merely are charged with
administrating such. The spectrum does not stop at the borders.

.No, but while inside the borders, you will pay

(Sometimes dearly) the FCC for the right to

play on the airwaves.

So you have been mistakenly telling us for years, yet, there is no
damper affecting those of us who play on it regularly for free or a few
paltry bucks..

Ask any cell phone company

owner/administrator.

Your selection of cell phone admins does not discount the countless
freebanders, cbers or hammies who play on it for free or on the extreme
cheap.

They are the ones authorized to sell spectrum

to people with a legitimate need. It's no

different than government owned land.

Again, it is very different for many reasons, several of which you were
already taught.

Yes, it is different in some ways, but the ways

that are similar are what I am talking about. It's
a fact that the FCC sells off chunks of

spectrum to commercial interests, sometimes

for outrageous amounts. If the FCC was not in
the position to claim "ownership" of that

spectrum, how could they auction it off?

By virtue of administration. Auctions are held daily all over the place.
They do not own what they auction, but like the FCC, are merely charged
with the administering of such.

Your car is yours as is your radio gear. But the
privilege to operate both is granted by the

government, and can be revoked for the

proper cause.

Wrong again. The government has absolutey zero authority how I operate
my vehicle on my own lan and can not revoke my privilege to do so.

Right! On you own land. But venture out on

.the public street, and they have all the

authority. Same goes for radio. If you can

somehow prevent your signal from escaping

the borders of your property (Which is covered
by FCC Part 15), you could do what you want.

Know of any test cases pushing the limit on this law?

Once those signals escape into the public

venue, they are under the control of the

federal government.

How is such defined? If a church camp own 2500 acres and broadcasts over
such, and I sit on the public lake adjourning their property and can
tune in their broadcast..is it now simply approached as a public
broadcast?

Another way to look at it, You own your car,

but not the roads you drive on.

Public means owned by the public,,,paid for by tax dollars.

And administered by the government.

You may own your radio, but not the airwaves

you broadcast on.

Neither does the FCC like you mistakenly believe.

For all practical purposes, yes they do in this

country.

You do not have a "right" to transmit beyond

the confines of your own property.

That is what the cb does.

You are granted a "privilege" to do so by the

government in the proxy of the FCC.

This "privilege" is availabe to anyone, so how can it be referred a
privilege? I know you elitist hammies believe this to be true about your
ticket, but it simply does not apply to cb, as practically any American
citizen is granted the "right" to broadcast, via a cb, simply by
ownership of one. This does not exactly equate to any "privilege".

As a

condition of that privilege comes your

responsibility to abide by the rules set fort in

various FCC parts depending on which

service you are using.

You may not like it, but that's the way it is.

Actually, I love the manner in which the FCC enforces radio law right
now and have said so on many occasion. They rightly and deservedly go
after those they deem the most important and damaging to our hobby. It
is yourself that does not like the "way it is" nor agree with it.

Dave

"Sandbagger"

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