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Help Defeat Ill-Conceived FLA Radio Law
AM wrote:
Florida passed a law making it a third degree felony to transmit any signal without a license. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national organization representing amateur radio operators saw this law as too broad and vague and a threat to ham radio operators, since a portion of the law also makes it a third degree felony to cause interference to any broadcast station, even from a licensed ham transmitter. So the ARRL filed a Request for Declaratory Ruling asking that the FCC void the Florida law. The FCC is studying the matter and may void the Florida law. When is anybody's guess. You can call the FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), who is handling this matter, and voice your support of the ARRL petition to void the Florida interference law by calling 202-418-0638. Please pass this on to other parties who wish to register their support of the ARRL petition to void the ill-conceived Florida interference law. Basically, states cannot legislate in the area of radio interference, since this is solely reserved to the FCC. You can read the ARRL Request for Declaratory Ruling here... http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/03/01/4/?nc=1 This looks to be as enforceable as the "Low Voltage Electrician's License" BS they pulled a few years ago. The way it was worded, it was illegal to do anything involving wire or electronic components without a license they wouldn't issue without a long involved test on workman's comp law. You couldn't install phone jacks, CATV or SAT TV, computer networking or manufacture electronic equipment. It was intended to "Protect" the state's biggest electrical contractors who had decided that were going to take over all burglar and fire alarm work. They were "grand fathered" even if they had never done the work, but everyone else had to stop all work and wait for the testing to begin, a full year later. there were no study guides and if you failed the test you had to wait six months to take it again. I have never heard of anyone being charged under this sham of a law, and it was passed over ten years ago. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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