http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?477408-Possible-Closure-of-Some-FCC-Field-office This should give the ARRL Official Observer program a real boost... Are you retired-- got lots of money to spend on your electrical bill, and willing to give 8+ hours of your life up a day (nights and weekends) to squash QRM on the HF bands....didn't think so.... We need a Amateur police force, like a hole in your head !!!! Last time I checked , noone was elmering new hams,(after they get a license) maybe we need to start.... doing that??? There are lots of buttons now on HF rigs, we need to tell them which ones not to press... ya think?
As the FCC closes monitoring stations they will be replacing the personnel with lightning fast computer operated monitoring devices that have all of the parameters of each RF band installed and the ability to change antennas and antenna direction electronically not physically. If there is a "Red Flag" the computer notes it and looks for it several more times in a separate algorithm. Some violations, for example in the aircraft AM band are non-enforceable as the aircraft may have come from Israel or Thailand in which case the system has the ability to notify a country's minister of communications people and report the problem. Taking the human element out of monitoring stations will make the system more efficient. Oh yes, they do decode CW, data, telemetry and other forms of digital communication and trunking systems. The system is so fast that it can find an operator or transmitter problem and log, generate and mail, email, etc. all in less than 10 seconds from the end of transmission. You didn't hear this from me.
Exactly.......history has shown this.......CB radio is now a freebander freq. with many amps in use.....some 20 and 80 meters ops are using amps in the 3KW output range....doing so with no consequences.... How about some new hams licensed as a tech not bothering to upgrade and get on all frequencies anyway? Who's going to stop them? No one!
Yeah, unfortunately for me, calling my Congressman wouldn't do a thing. He's one of the idiots siding with the Republican calls to gut the FCC of enforcement powers in retaliation for actually having the temerity to do the right thing and putting cable ISPs under Title II common carrier rules. Politicians in general, no matter their party, tend to have no concept of "throwing the baby out with the bath water".
Source? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This *is* the US government you're talking about and the FCC isn't the NSA, CIA, nor DIA.
A lot of you guys must listen to 313. In reality who cares? Spin the damn dial and get a life because there are plenty of good hams out there to talk to . I wouldn't waste my time worrying about 14.313. Never keyed up there and never will.
Its over My Father was right ! he told me Ham Radio will go to chit after code was kicked to the curb ! have you listened to the bands lately ? its filled with trash and mentally ill operators just jamming and breathing into there mics all day everyday ! Its worse than CB . Now its going to go directly to Hell . Goodbye to a once wonderful Hobby !
He doesn't need proof. The FCC parked in my driveway a few years ago and the field agent with a callsign begining in KF and ending in CC in a region number similar to where I am from showed me what his laptop SDR receiver can do. BTW those chevy's they drive have a fiberglass roof and unlike what I thought - there are NO visible antennas! They're all conceiled in the roof... So I won't go any further. The capabilities of the government go way beyond what you think. Today you can record the entire baseband of DC to 30mhz to a hard drive and play it back 10 years from now and decode only the frequency you choose! As far as self-enforcement good luck. We have locals who chatter for hours on 146.52 and when you remind them its the National FM calling freq they continue just like they are on 27.185mhz. The ARRL is a joke, they can't even lead the way for repeater coordination as their band plans are out dated by 20 years compared to what every repeeater coordinator is doing differently across the country....
This is the main reason the monitoring budget is being slashed. Plus they are now going to start making a fortune off of Internet regulation. FCC employees have been spending hours watching porn on the job and have admitted to doing it. FOX 5's Alexandra Limon has more on this story. http://www.myfoxdc.com/Clip/10431934/fcc-employees-watch-porn-on-the-job
So why have there been so little in enforcement in the last few years? I've heard this FCC wonder DF crap for the last 30 years. The fact of the matter is, the FCC has antiquated equipment, is understaffed and has no wonder weapons. It's fantasy. They sure won't have the time or manpower now. So stay off of the problem frequencies and go on with your life or sell your equipment and take up knitting.
More likely we are going to have to live with all of the noise from various products and companies. Maybe even utilities since no one will come after them. All of the hams combined can't equal the qrm from one determined corporation
One day there will be no renewal of your license. They've already stopped issuing paper licenses. Everyone is basing their bashing of radio on a few renegade frequencies because they have nothing else to talk about, and bitching and moaning about how bad ham radio is, is the only subject some people know to talk about. Enforcement is on the way out. The FCC tried to take over the internet and now Congress slashed their budget. So guess what? The little enforcement we got is now going to be near zero. Including interference complainants because your neighbors fish tank heater is coming in on 40 meters. Deal with it.
Congress will just shift the duties of the FCC over to the NSA. So while on paper it will look like they are saving money, in the end they will just spend 10 times as much without you and I ever knowing....
I'm half American so I can throw my half baked input on this one. Big government except where its really needed, man oh man, we don't need any more channel 313s, that's such an embarrassment to the band and hobby. Guess they need to stockpile funds to subsidize new private email servers, thanks to the trend Hilary started.
