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Oh, it doesn't look much if a fireball at all.
signal S8-9 on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland / it's WBOG and not WDOG!
WDOG ID
0029 ID WDOG
0025 ID as WDOG by male announcer.
0035 ID as WDOG.
Sprockets was the name of a reoccurring German themed art/culture skit on SNL, a Kraftwerk song was the theme song.
B. Factual Background
6. On July 22, 2021, the Commission received a complaint from the U.S. Forest Service
alleging that an individual had been transmitting on government radio frequencies 148-174 MHz without
authorization, and that the individual was causing radio frequency interference to the U.S. Forest Service
firefighter’s fire suppression aircraft in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Specifically, the complaint alleges that the
individual was transmitting on 151.145 MHz, a frequency that has been allocated by the Commission as
part of the Public Safety Pool and was being used jointly by the U.S. Forest Service and the Idaho
Department of Lands to coordinate firefighting activities.9 The complaint alleged that on July 17th and
18th, firefighter personnel working on the “Johnson” fire, a 1000-acre fire located on national forest land
five miles outside of Elk River, Idaho,10 began receiving unauthorized radio transmissions from an
individual identifying as “comm tech.” This individual interrupted fire suppression activities and began
advising the firefighters and aircraft personnel of hazards at a radio repeater site located at Elk Butte.
When queried, “comm tech” identified his location at the Elk River airstrip.11 On the afternoon of July
18th, the Johnson Creek fire operations section chief left the fire to drive to the Elk River airstrip where he
located an individual holding a radio. This individual, subsequently identified as Frawley, admitted to
transmitting on government frequencies and doing so as a “comm tech.” The fire operations section chief
instructed Frawley to cease operations on the frequency and returned to his post.12
2. The Order and LOI Correctly Apply Section 511 of the Act
10. We also agree with the Bureau that the LOI’s invocation of section 511 of the Act is not a
“tortured misinterpretation of the term ‘pirate radio’”22 that threatened or attempted to coerce CVGC and
its principals.23 As the LOI plainly states (and as directly quoted in the Application), “section 511 of the
Act establishes penalties for any individual who engages in or permits acts of pirate radio broadcasting,
which is defined as ‘the transmission of communications on spectrum frequencies between 535 and 1705
kilohertz, inclusive, or 87.7 and 108 megahertz, inclusive, without a license issued by the
Commission.’”24 Through the LOI, the Bureau is attempting to investigate, inter alia, whether the Station
continued to operate as a broadcast station after the expiration of its license, and, if so, the frequency on
which the Station operated. The LOI also provided CVGC with an opportunity to explain its legal basis
for continuing to operate.25 Thus, with respect to section 511 of the Act, the LOI plainly seeks
information to determine whether Station has operated without a license from the Commission on a
frequency identified in section 511(h) of the Act. In amending the Act to include section 511(h),
Congress did not draw a distinction between a station that has never held a Commission license and one
that previously held a Commission license,26 and we decline to do so here. Accordingly, we find that the
Bureau’s invocation of section 511 was appropriate in a preliminary inquiry whether the conduct of
CVGC and its principals met the statutory threshold for liability under section 511 of the Act
) and it seems pretty straightforward to establish whether they are still on the air or not. But I guess they have to go through the whole legal dog-and-pony thing.
However, as you say it would be easily possible to operate mobile. You could pre-record your program and put it on the air while driving around. Good luck locating a broadcast from a moving vehicle.
I posted that we used to stay off of 6975 a couple of weeks back. It was a MARS frequency.
Of course,6955 was a Canadian Air Force frequency and that never stopped anyone.
6915 is very close to FEMA hurricane nets in the Gulf Coast region, about 2.5 khz. below them, and it's that time of year.
