Help Defeat Ill-Conceived FLA Radio Law
 

"AM" wrote in message ...
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
......

I´ll voice my concern about the ARRL, not the law.

I was once on a plane landing at the Miami International Airport, which had
to abort a landing approach. The pilot explained that there was a Haitian
radio signal interfering with the communications frequencies used by the
plane to get landing instructions. He was referring to a pirate in Kreyol
that had an emission right in the aircraft band.

All the passengers of this and other flights sere endangered by this
prorate.

The law may need revision, but endangerment of public safety and
interference with licensed communications channels is not something to be
quibbled with.