N7VCF wrote:
Busting someone that isn't licensed costs much more money in man-hours,
equipment usage, travel expenses, etc. There needs to be monitoring and
DFing, at least one warning notice, more monitoring and DFing, a request
for station inspection, more monitoring and DFing, etc, etc, etc. This
is done because once an NAL is issued, the evidence needs to be very
nearly unimpeachable to avoid legal challenges in court, which would
cost even more money in court fees and lawyers. That's why when you -do-
hear of a CBer getting busted the violations are usually quite
extensive. On the other hand, it's easy to bust a ham because a lot of
the legal process is eliminated by the fact that the violator is
licensed -- the license pre-empts most of the issues upon which a legal
challenge could be made. All they need to do is record a few illegal
transmissions, do a DF and audio comparison against legal transmissions
where the ham identifies himself, then cite the ham for a violation
against his license. Very cheap and easy.
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As it should be.