FCC levies $10,000 fine for unlicensed operation
 

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G.T. Tyson wrote:

How can the FCC levy fines on CB operators when no licenses are issued
for the CB service anymore?

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.

Al Q.
NY

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> How can the FCC levy fines on CB operators when no licenses are
issued for the CB service anymore?brbr
Back up for a second, you're missing the bigger pictu $10K FINE FOR A
CB'ER!!brbr
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.brbr
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On 26 Jan 2005 18:10:41 GMT, Al Quaglieri wrote:

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.

Those fines are nothing new. I recall $10,000 per incident fines going
back to the days we had duels in Texas because someone would yield to
a "breaker." Before the great CB revolution.

Rich

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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Al Quaglieri wrote:

Back up for a second, you're missing the bigger pictu $10K FINE FOR
A CB'ER!!

What's the fine for unauthorized and unlicensed transmission? If the
CBer's output exceeded about 5 watts, then it's unauthorized and
unlicensed. If said CBer's operation caused interference to licensed
or authorized services, then said CBer sure can be fined, just as those
who transmit with 200 watts on 88.2 can fined also.

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=A0=A0to=A0get=
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to the serious business of regulation and stop playing to the cheap
seats with all the grandstanding and outrageous fines.

Are you kidding, 10K is a relatively small fine and unlike speed trap
towns, most folks given a NAL can get out of paying the entire fee by
demonstrating no capability of paying. The FCC is not a major source
of funds for the federal government, the cost of collecting fines for
example is relatively high when individuals are fined.=20