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Hams Behaving Badly 7200 LSB 0122 UTC 8 JUL 2024
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: osiris on January 26, 2025, 1338 UTC ---The commentary during the inauguration on 7200 was hilarious, though. Wish I had thought to record it. I'd be surprised if the secret service didn't knock on the one guy's door the next day.
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If the FCC isn't doing anything about 7200, I'm assuming that they have other priorities. That goes double for the Secret Service.
radioartisan:
--- Quote ---If the FCC isn't doing anything about 7200, I'm assuming that they have other priorities
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The FCC's priorities are now eliminating DEI for Dear Leader and the beatification of The Party, killing Net Neutrality, and doing everything they can to "increase shareholder value" for the wireless carriers and lobbyists. They could care less about HF and amateur radio, it's just an administrative annoyance to them. Another priority, though somewhat lesser is the PIRATE Act, where they impose fines they never have any hope of collecting, but it makes really good entries in the otherwise boring Daily Digest which makes people think they're doing something constructive, and sticking it to the "bad guys". Frankly, it would be great if a lot of FCC workers take the voluntary resignation deal, though they're going to get stiffed with the severance deal as there's no funding for it.
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: radioartisan on January 30, 2025, 0534 UTC ---The FCC's priorities are now eliminating DEI for Dear Leader and the beatification of The Party, killing Net Neutrality, and doing everything they can to "increase shareholder value" for the wireless carriers and lobbyists.
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Agree 100%. Also, I expect that under Unser Führer Musk (who seems to have mastered the salute) that the FCC will be further de-fanged than it already is in the name of "efficiency" (which is code for "enriching himself and the ruling oligarchy").
radioartisan:
--- Quote ---Agree 100%. Also, I expect that under Unser Führer Musk (who seems to have mastered the salute) that the FCC will be further de-fanged than it already is in the name of "efficiency" .
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Even prior to this administration I've expected/predicted the FCC will at some point in our lifetimes "deregulate" HF and make it a free-for-all. Maybe I'm smoking crack as the NTIA would have a say in it and there is still some federal and military use. But I digress.
I could see someone making a case to keep FCC enforcement personnel in place to support PIRATE Act related actions, until the beancounters figure out they're actually losing money because some guy in an apartment with a soldered-together kit FM transmitter doesn't have $2M to pay a fine.
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
So, with the state of enforcement being what it is, I'd say that HF operators and rogue hams (e.g., 7200) have very little to worry about.
Paraphrasing The Orange Blob, one could set up a transmitter in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City (so to speak) and nothing will happen to you.
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