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“Congress could make it illegal to aid or abet pirate radio operations. Denying them the opportunity to operate in this way would be a significant means of thwarting the continued growth of pirate radio"
So let them clamp down on the educators that teach how to construct and use radio equipment <engineering>!? Also they would have to clamp down on any magazines and/or books, old and new, that are published that might deal with said education...
That being said...
I am the type of person that when a person asks a question that I might know something about... I will give them an answer (more of an opinion really). They, the person that asked the question, is free to use the information I gave or they can use other information they might have... it's called 'free will'. I do this in the fashion of giving information in a free manner in the advance of the subject matter... and for NO other reason. I see the world in the same light as I did when I was on the University of Maine campus as a student.
The fact is that all the information that is needed is on the web, be it how to make a transmitter or even how to make bombs. Yes bombs.
The only reason this bovine scatology is being tossed around is because of the big business radio corporations and the 'record' industries. I've listened to corporate radio and I find it very lacking in many ways;
1) record sales. If record sales are down perhaps it's because the music is pathetic or the damned radio station doesn't give the name of the artist before or after the song has been played. Many times I have had to ask my daughters or grandchildren what this or that song is so I might buy a copy. And they have to ask me what is the name of the artist of an oldie so they can buy a copy for their collection. Think about it....
2) Most of the 'so called' radio personalities are from the bottom of the barrel, there are no more Murry the K's, Alan Freed's or Joey Reynolds etc left in this world... why? Because folks like them don't work for minimum wage and corporate radio only thinks about the bottom line ie; quantity not quality.
3) Corporate radio is paranoid. No need to explain this fact because it is obvious.
I think the American people would be better served for the Federal agencies to seek out the people that want to kill us and not get all nerved up about a low power radio station playing tunes to impress his/her friends. If he/she is causing interference then that is a totally different issue.
If the RIAA wants to bitch about copyright listen up. by playing a tune on the radio it is, in fact, a form or promotion. If one song is sold because of a pirate... where is the problem? Prove to me that hasn't happened? I know as a fact it has mostly songs that never seems to get into commercial rotation.
Now comes reality:
Shortwave radio is in the final stages of dying, sorry SWL's but it is true. There is no reason why there can't be a section of short wave frequencies that can be left open for 'pirate' operation. If this isn't done then soon the only thing that can be heard on short wave will be Amateur radio and OTHR signals.... maybe that is what they have planned for... This was done for CB'ers so why not the pirates? Cb'ers are left alone so why not the pirates?
Finally... The FCC would do the people a bigger service if they would get these part 15 devices under control. I like to check into the 14300khz maritime mobile net but some butt head has powered up a device in the past few months that sends out a massive crappy signal right on frequency making it impossible to hear anything on that frequency and it has garbage harmonics up and down the band... it's not constant but it seems to be there when propagation is at it's best for my QRP station.
There is more to this rant but I need to have a lay down... my syringomylia pain it getting to me...
PS. I don't, and I never have, encouraged anyone to operate a pirate station... It is their free will that commands them to do so.
Topic: FCC: Remarks on the Growth of Pirate Radio (Read 1327 times)
