Ahh, but the Federales DO have clout, and the law, behind them. They
just choose not to bother dealing with it.
Who would you rather go after, given limited budgets and manpower?
1) A commercial radio station that violates obscenity statutes, or
2) A single CB operator messing up TVs with his illegal equipment?
given that the commercial station is a FAR, FAR greater source of
revenue...go ahead, fine 'em $50,000, there lots more where that came
from - AND they need to be licensed. Whatcha gonna do with the CBer?
How are you going to milk a dry wallet for $800? And since he has no
license to pull, well...
* Scott Rosenfeld NF3I Burtonsville, MD FM19mc QRV 80-10/6/2/440 *
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, James C. Owen, III wrote:
> In message Wed, 13 Aug 1997 01:41:44 GMT,
> k8cv@juno.com (Walter D Amos) writes:
>
> >why does the neighbor behind me have a 250 watt linear in his car being
> > driven by a cb ....hummmmmmmm he certainly did not build
> > it! To bad the federaralies have no clout........
> >
> > Walt K8CV
>
> Just because it's illegal doesn't mean he will be caught,but if he is Katie
> bar the door. Yes I wish there was more and better enforcement of the
> rules. The interference caused by these CB amplifiers reflect badly on the
> Hams and are quite frequently blamed on the Hams. After all we have a
> license that can be revoked and the CBers of course don't. Even though I
> have a commerical FCC license as well as an amateur license I refuse to
> work on a CB rig for anyone I know who uses an illegal station. Since I
> started this policy over 25 years ago I don't know of anyone now who uses
> illegal power, and I also don't work on many CB's anymore. 73 Jim K4CGY
>
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