PROPAGATiiiN'''....''''~ FCC Enforcement For years, the FCC has maintained that there is very little money and Slall available10 enrorce the rufes on the ham bards. Wilh fimrted resources, the FCC must set certain p.'iorrties, beginning with matters 01 public safety, 0 1 course, lhe FCC's flrst enforcemenl priority is, and shook! be, invesligaling inlel1erence effll(:fing law antorcement, publie salety, avialion arK! ether life, deafh or propertyservices, II 'fOU've read thiScolumn more tnan once, 'fOU know thai I teet amateurs Shoufd be senpolicing. Since the FCC ocesnt like 10 be bothered by fhe peffy problems 01 amateur radio (and most 01 fhem are pelly), il onfy drives another nail into amateur radio's coffin, every lime one at us bugsthe FCC with a minor inlraction, pel peeve or other lime wasting compfain1- uniess n's posrtiw PR, the tess attention we draw toward oursefl'1lS lhe better. Whife we amateurs shoufd work 10 settle our own differences, fhis does nol mean fhaf the FCCcanor should wash their hands 01 fhe entireAmaleur RadioService,Wehavesome serece enforcement problems-some met have been going on for years-and il is high time lhe FCC stopped hiding beh ind the "no mon&}' or manpower" excuse and started cleaning up some of these problems. If the FCC is so poor and undllfStaffed, why is il that th&}' can spend hurn:lreds 01thousands 01dollarschasingdown a bunch 01 kids broadcasting rockmusic onthe relativelybarren frequenc>&s above the 4(lm band, when we've got hoards 01 violations happening on the heavily populated 80, 20, 10 and 2 meter bands? I sebrmt that it is not a question of moneyarn:l personnel. rt is a maner of ma~ agementand priorities-both bad. I am sick and tired 01losing the use of 50 kHz of the 20m bendto various forms 01vermin, while the FCC spends thousands to chase down harmless " pirates" on 7,415 "1Hz. I have heard blatanl violations of several FCC regulations on an almost daily basis on and around 14,313 10r over fiveyears, and with the excllfltion of a lew fines ,the FCC has doneabsolutely nothingto solve the problem, ff is obvious that this group of idiots is not going 10 go awayon their own. As a taxpayer, I am turiovs that the agency empowered to clean up this mess puts busting linear,us ing CBers (because 01 a handful 01complaints) above the continued clogging of a mapr portion of an international resource A tew hours spent monitoring on a Saturday afternoon would provide ample evidence to ,evoke the licenses of dozens of theseoperators. I am tired 01 listening to barely disguised commercials for various publications arn:l organizations. 1am sick to death of listening to hourafter hour of intentional interference, aft for Ihe sake01 a few contestpoints. I amat the end of my rope when it comes to amateurs whodon't underslandthat )'(Iu can't fit 10 kHz of audio intoa 3 kHz wide signal. I'm not the only one who ieets this way. Judging from my mail, not to mention the hundreds of hams I spoke with at the Oayton Hanwention (and the hundreds 01 olhers at bamrests across the country), the general feeli ngamong ham radio operators is that the FCC is using the " self-policing" excuse to shirk part of their enforcement rssoonsem ties. It's hard for 'fOUr average amateur to accepttheIhousarn:ls of dollars put into chasing downa coupleof teen-agers with a 4(1 wan AM transm itter connected to a tape deck, when weara forcedto put upwilh blatant arn:l repeated violations by known persons or or- 84 73 Amateur Radio Today. June, 1992 David Cassidy N1GPH ganizations occul1'ing from one end of the amateur spectrum to the other. As the editor 01 the Arlington (VA) 10 · 10 News PU t it in a recent newsletter, .somethingisvery wroog when a Federal regulatory agency expends its resources chasing minnows, while the sharks swim free." There are iworeasces why this lack 01 attention tc ongoing violations really ticks me off, First,l justdid mytaxes, WhenI figurethe percentage 01 my income that goes to Washington every year and then figure the value I'm getting rcr my investment, it makes me wantto scream .Thefact that I am anAmateur Radio Operator has very little to do with it. I ama taxpayer, paying for theoperationof the FCC. and don't like the waythey are setting enforcement priorities, Second. as an Ametaur Rad io Operator and prood cmzen 01the Unitad States. I feel that rules vi," ations thai occur on bands where propagation insures that theviolationsare being heard aft over the world shOl/ld be given more priority than a CBeI getting into his neighbor's $20 telephone, Iam not adVQCating thai thousands 01 you startwriting tc the FCC, demanding action on whatever has got your goat this week , This wiff make us no friends in Washington and only serves to clog up the works (since every complaint, no matter how real or imagined, must be answered). What I am saving is that you,l and the FCC are WfJII aware ot several ongoing violations 01 Part 97. It's about time the FCC did something to clean up these messes, The time for reading about these fools in theamateurradio press (and weall know who I'm talking about} is ever. The time for passing oot fines is ever. Certain probems have gone way beyond the realm of "self-policing." Now is the time lor the FCC to ceen house a littla, and tfiey can start with the cesspool on twenty meters. Now is the time lor certain neme to losetheirlicenses, and 101 severer to Spllnd sometime in}ail. When they're through rounding up the hooiigans on 20 meters. how about it if the FCC spends a few contestweekands tracking down the illegal power operators and intentional intel1erers. If they did this over the course of six or eight major contests, maybe contests would onceagain become a fun way to sharpenoperating Skilis instead of thl! display of "who can buythe biggest signai" th&}' have become, Afferthat, the FCC could spend acoupleof days listening to that repeater out in LA (you know the one I'm talking aboot-it was in all the papers).ltwoufdn'ttakemuch monitoring 10 get the evidence necessary to ' evoke the trustee's license and shut down that emberrassrnent. While they're at il, why don't a couple of monitoring stations put on a pol of coffee and spend a few late nights listening to the fillh that has become the 80 meter band (if you think this contradicts whatI've written about the First Amendment, go back and read it again)? The conceot of a "self-policing" service, which is a nice thoughl. is and always has bean a myth. You cannotenforce regulations withoot the legal authority to back up thai enlOlce ment with punishment n'e time for the FCC to givtl up the convenient lie of amateur radio being self-policing ami to start giving 1M amateur radoa taxpayers their lair share of protection from iftegal operators. TheFCC hasthe authority. I hope they start to wake up totheir responSibil ity.1iI JimGray W1XU 210£85t Chateau Circle PaysonAZ85541 '"" __ISIS ALASKA ARGENTltiA AUSTlVIlIA CAN"l.ZONc ENGLAND ",",WAn IND'" JAPA'I MEXICO PHILIPPINES PuERTO IUCO THAFAICA U.S.S.R EAST COAST JUNE 1992 Jim Gray W1XU EASTERN UNITED STATES TO: A]J,SKA ARGENT''''' AUSTAALIA CAHAlZ J OOL"!NO HAWAII INOJ" JAPAN MEXICO Ptl!l lttltlES PUERTO RICO SOUTH AFRiCA U.8.S.R occur on June 21st, and a full moon on June 14th. I hope these gloomy predictions for June propagation DON'T come true , but let's wait and see. Itcouid be a very GOOD month for VHFers who wilt find some conditions much to Iheir liking. Always listen to WWV at18 minutes past any hour for current updeteson solariltlOphysiCal data and announcements of importance. See you next month. W1XU,fiI 00 00 • • 00 '" " " " " ro - - - - • " ro ro za 'OO'OD - - - eo ." O~~ - " " " • • - • • • - 190 , ~ ~,. ~,. - - - - • • • • .==- - , • " • • eo • • - ,. 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