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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. |
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