Help Defeat Ill-Conceived FLA Radio Law
 

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

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

This is true. But we already have plenty of federal laws to deal with
that. The solution is not to enact more laws, and cause federal and
state organizations to start fighting with one another over jurisdiction.
The solution is to enforce the laws that already exist.

However, the US laws extend only to US borders, which is why Haitian FM
pirates, Brazillian shortwave broadcasters, and Chinese touch lamp
manufacturers will continue to be a problem until we sit down with other
governments and work them out (as we did with megawatt Mexican AM
broadcast
issues in the past).

The FM pirates in South Florida, the Boston area and others are Haitian
immigrants broadcasting locally and illegally. there is no way a station
form Haiti could interfere on the FM band with any US station. Haiti is over
the horizon... way over it.

The problem in FL is that there are so many pirates, they endanger lives in
many ways, including unsafe towers, electrical hazards, RFI hazards and
interference to other services, like airports. If the FCC can not act fast
enough, then local authorities are required to look at other aspects and
act. The FCC laws basically cover spectrum use, not endangerment.