"General Mobile Radio Service |nformation" wrote in
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"Sarge" wrote in :


Does the FCC think that people will actually pay $75 bucks for a
licence when u can use a gmrs without one and not get caught.
How can they catch you if you don't give out your name on the radio and
make up call letters?

As a ham operator,I can point out people who get busted all the time.
Believe me, they will find you.



They don't learn. They get warned all the time. Then when they get
caught, they just cry and say "i didn't know".

for sure. They can hide but not for long. Once the FCC has your scent,
you're a dead duck.

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"General Mobile Radio Service |nformation" wrote in
message ...
"Sarge" wrote in :


Does the FCC think that people will actually pay $75 bucks for a
licence when u can use a gmrs without one and not get caught.
How can they catch you if you don't give out your name on the radio and
make up call letters?

As a ham operator,I can point out people who get busted all the time.
Believe me, they will find you.



They don't learn. They get warned all the time. Then when they get
caught, they just cry and say "i didn't know".

for sure. They can hide but not for long. Once the FCC has your scent,
you're a dead duck.

Yeah, and those GMRS radios smell really bad. What chance do you think
the FCC will have catching someone running around with a hand held? Not
very good.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
Yeah, and those GMRS radios smell really bad. What chance do you think
the FCC will have catching someone running around with a hand held? Not
very good.

well you'll have licensed operators turning you in along with tape
recordings, signal strength reports, freqs and repeaters you frequent along
with times. The FCC will be armed with a lot of info before they start. Then
it won't take long. After the fiasco with CB, they are a determined bunch.

Truth is that it takes a fair amount of complaints, from credible users,
about egregious radio behavior - not just a kid with .5W radio playing
calltones - before the FCC acts. The FCC field enforcement folks just have
too much to do to chase everyone.

For years, they've relied on amateurs to self-police their bands and only
turn to the FCC when the offender will not take the advice to knock it off
or change their ways. It took the FCC 5 years to get down on jack
Gerritsen - even after he disrupted the LA PD radio systems.

However, ham operators should not put their amateur licenses in jeopardy by
operating unlicensed GMRS.. They are expected to know better.

Licenses are now $80 (and going up next year?). It's no wonder the
retailers would rather a prospective consumer not know they will need a
license. I keep hearing Wally-Wonder-Radio ($8/hour 'salespeople') in
Best-Buy and Wal*Mart tell folks that: "Oh, you no longer need the license.
The airwaves are now free."

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"Sarge" wrote in message
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"Telamon" wrote in message
Yeah, and those GMRS radios smell really bad. What chance do you think
the FCC will have catching someone running around with a hand held? Not
very good.

well you'll have licensed operators turning you in along with tape
recordings, signal strength reports, freqs and repeaters you frequent
along with times. The FCC will be armed with a lot of info before they
start. Then it won't take long. After the fiasco with CB, they are a
determined bunch.

"NEWNEWS" wrote in
t:


Licenses are now $80 (and going up next year?). It's no wonder the
retailers would rather a prospective consumer not know they will need
a license. I keep hearing Wally-Wonder-Radio ($8/hour 'salespeople')
in Best-Buy and Wal*Mart tell folks that: "Oh, you no longer need the
license. The airwaves are now free."

A GMRS license now costs $85. It went up a few months ago.

seems to me, they would make more money by lowering it to at least $40 or
so. People might actually be tempted to pay it.

--
William Baldwin, Jr
MBA HCM program at the Univ of Phoenix
Ground below Zero at New Orleans area La.
go to: www.coastguardauxiliaryslidell8cr.us

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"NEWNEWS" wrote in
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Licenses are now $80 (and going up next year?). It's no wonder the
retailers would rather a prospective consumer not know they will need
a license. I keep hearing Wally-Wonder-Radio ($8/hour 'salespeople')
in Best-Buy and Wal*Mart tell folks that: "Oh, you no longer need the
license. The airwaves are now free."

A GMRS license now costs $85. It went up a few months ago.

Get their name, and buy one. You can then claim fraud and settle out of
court for $$$...

--
William Baldwin, Jr
MBA HCM program at the Univ of Phoenix
Ground below Zero at New Orleans area La.
go to: www.coastguardauxiliaryslidell8cr.us

"NEWNEWS" wrote in message
t...
Truth is that it takes a fair amount of complaints, from credible users,
about egregious radio behavior - not just a kid with .5W radio playing
calltones - before the FCC acts. The FCC field enforcement folks just
have too much to do to chase everyone.

For years, they've relied on amateurs to self-police their bands and only
turn to the FCC when the offender will not take the advice to knock it off
or change their ways. It took the FCC 5 years to get down on jack
Gerritsen - even after he disrupted the LA PD radio systems.

However, ham operators should not put their amateur licenses in jeopardy
by operating unlicensed GMRS.. They are expected to know better.

Licenses are now $80 (and going up next year?). It's no wonder the
retailers would rather a prospective consumer not know they will need a
license. I keep hearing Wally-Wonder-Radio ($8/hour 'salespeople') in
Best-Buy and Wal*Mart tell folks that: "Oh, you no longer need the
license. The airwaves are now free."

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"Sarge" wrote in message
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"Telamon" wrote in message
Yeah, and those GMRS radios smell really bad. What chance do you think
the FCC will have catching someone running around with a hand held? Not
very good.

well you'll have licensed operators turning you in along with tape
recordings, signal strength reports, freqs and repeaters you frequent
along with times. The FCC will be armed with a lot of info before they
start. Then it won't take long. After the fiasco with CB, they are a
determined bunch.

If there's 1% compliance, I'd be surprised. The barn door is opened,
I'm afraid and stuck in that position. I was reading this recently:

http://tinyurl.com/ypf46y




On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:48:17 GMT, "NEWNEWS" wrote:

Truth is that it takes a fair amount of complaints, from credible users,
about egregious radio behavior - not just a kid with .5W radio playing
calltones - before the FCC acts. The FCC field enforcement folks just have
too much to do to chase everyone.


Craig Schroeder
craig nospam craigschroeder com

"John" wrote in message
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Craig Schroeder wrote in
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http://tinyurl.com/ypf46y

That's an older article. Now the FCC is back on board with the PRA.
There
are several high-profile enforcement actions pending.

I doubt the FCC is "on board" with anybody, which would be illegal anyway.
The FCC does what it whims, and the PRA either likes it or not. When they
didn't, they wrote the pouting, exaggerated article about how they weren't
getting their way. Now that the FCC are taking actions they agree with, it's
an "outdated article".

--
William Baldwin, Jr
MBA HCM program at the Univ of Phoenix
Ground below Zero at New Orleans area La.
go to: www.coastguardauxiliaryslidell8cr.us