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Bob Martin <[log in to unmask]>
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Bob Martin <[log in to unmask]>
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In the 80s, I reported a guy down In Pensacola, Florida and later read in 
QST that his license had been restricted.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs


> They don't go after those groups and the 3.910 group around regions 1 and 
> 2
> and probably 3 because they know those people are going to keep it up no
> matter how many letters and fines they get and the FCC doesn't have the
> resources to take the next step. The FCC doesn't want to waste all that
> money though why our government is nothing but a waste of money, but they
> don't want to spend the money to take these people to court because they
> won't pay the fines and what not, only for these people to cry that it
> wasn't them and no one can prove one way or another and they'll keep doing
> the same thing weather licensed or not. They'd rather go after the ones 
> that
> are fairly new to their attention where they might have some impact rather
> than the habitual people who take the warning letters and notices and 
> frame
> them, hang them all around their shacks  then brag about them on the air 
> and
> post pictures online and what not. It's not worth bothering with them, 
> they
> don't have the resources to go after them. Plain and simple, I'm sorry to
> say it but that's what the problem is. If you mess up a couple times or 
> push
> your limits, a letter might scare you straight or a fine once, you keep
> doing it and become a regular, they're not going to bother anymore.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Ringwald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 1:07 AM
> Subject: Re: FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs
>
>
>> Kind of a waste of FCC time going after these guys for not identifying =
>> when out here on the West Coast we have much worse stuff going on, on =
>> 3840, 75 meters. The worse jamming, swearing, foul language, threats, =
>> much worse than the CB band. And these guys appear to be adults.
>>
>> It is so embarrassing. What if someone is tuning around the ham bands =
>> thinking about getting a ham license? Or if some child is listening in. =
>> 99.99% of the hams are law abiding. But the .001 percent of bad guys =
>> really give our hobby a bad name.=20
>>
>> -Bob Ringwald K6YBV
>>
>>
>> From: Ron Canazzi=20
>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 9:25 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs
>>
>> Hi Group,
>>
>> Read this article.  It is interesting.
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-releases-warning-notices-to-several-radio-am=
>> ateurs
>>
>>
>> --=20
>>
>> Signature:
>> They ask me if I'm Happy, I say "yes."
>> They ask me "How happy are you?"
>> I say: "I'm as happy as a stowaway chimpanzee on a banana boat!"
>
>
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