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FCC CB Enforcement Action
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Good luck.
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It was the same Powder Springs, GA field office that inspected my Colorado station in the late 70s and eventually fined me $50 for not using my CB callsign within a 30min period. I offered them lunch but they declined and I almost electrocuted one engineer due to a ground problem at my house. They didn't fine me for having my CB base antenna about 50ft in the air on a pole or for my radios that had a transmit enabled clarifier and extra channels.
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ouch, how close are the neighbors???? I wonder why someone complained. I didn't think much electronics picked up interference anymore? this is going to be an interesting post to watch.... sorry you got the FCC out there.
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you had a call sign for CB back then?? I know you need to give a call sign at the beginning and end of your cb use and you have to break away after 5 minutes... but I never thought they actually listened in for anything.... they must have had a complaint?
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I had a CB license back in the 70's too. It says the citation was issued for too much power. I believe the issue came up because of interference to media equipment in the neighbors houses. Your neighbors are friends until you make them otherwise. Unshielded cables can pickup signals from high powered RF emitters.
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There was a huge worldwide freeband type CB convention held in my town and the FCC sent two engineers to bust as many of them as possible. The engineers that visited me confirmed it. I along with a good friend and my boss, the owner of a CB/car stereo shop were casualties of that but I didn't hear of any out of towners getting busted.
Wasn't me. It's amazing they got the FCC out there.
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Angelo Ditty...name ring a bell?
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My visit was around 1979, too long ago to remember any names. There were two guys, a chubby dark haired one in a cheap suit and a tall guy in sandals and light color, maybe tan high water jeans. The suit guy was more procedural and mostly in charge and Mr. Sandals carried the test equipment, a frequency counter and wattmeter with load and he made all the measurements on my radio. They arrived in a Ford sedan with black wall tires and small hub caps, although I asked if they had a van for direction finding, etc, and they said yes.
I had two documents from that I've lost over the years that I really wish I had, one a signed copy from the day of the visit noting all the things they found like a clairifier that worked on transmit and extra channels in the radio. That radio was a Pace 1000B.
Then there was the actual pink slip that was pink demanding a $50 forfeiture for not identifying my station. I was not charged for the clairifier or extra channels because they didn't catch me using them because I was using a different radio that was loaned to a friend that had a boat load of extra channels and he got caught using it on a freeband freq, so it cost him more.
That radio was an early Pace CB-166, the one featured in a smokey and the bandit movie and now they go for a lot of $$. Mine was from the first shipment into the country (I worked for Pace at that time) and it had a row of about six toggle switches to get a bunch of extra channels. One of the engineers at Pace, Larry Hirsch WA6SWG did the research for the mod and I copied his radio. I mention Larry as he had a couple of FCC enforcements against him, mostly for a famous high power CB repeater in the early 1980s.
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I got a call in about 1970 from a woman at the FCC. She wanted to know about my station, did I have an amplifier etc. The background was a neighbor who owned a lot of cheap Sears stuff *, garage door opener, electric organ, etc. Apparently I was getting into all of these things even though our houses were far apart. We may have shared a drop on the power pole. I had called this neighbor and offered to install filters or whatever and was turned down. Then he called FCC and was adamant that I do something. The lady was satisfied with my responses and nothing ever happened. However, my coax cable was severed some weeks later.
* (is that a real poncho...i mean Is that a Mexican poncho Or is that a Sears poncho? Hmmm...no foolin ...) - FZ
* (is that a real poncho...i mean Is that a Mexican poncho Or is that a Sears poncho? Hmmm...no foolin ...) - FZ
Did the neighbors who complained happen to be members of Congress or Federal employees...?
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I doubt it. They did not seem to have a lot of money and lived next to some high tension lines.
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Who ya jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?
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I always wondered what became of that system? It was so long ago and I relate the story of such a repeater system to others and they question the validity of such a claim. I sometimes question myself, was that really a thing or am I imagining this as something that wasn't real....
Actually as I remember it, that was indeed a thing. As a matter of fact it was both a fairly sophisticated, especially for that time. Yet on the other hand it seems as there were other parts of it that were kludged and fairly low tech.
It was ahead of its time in the way that it was linked with multiple reception sites and voter repeaters. It had a multitude of inputs and links to numerous VHF and UHF even rumoured microwave frequencies . Networked systems were not common like today. Parts of the system was fairly crude in the fact that it used as some of the inputs, common consumer electronics as certain components such as 49mHz band walkie talkies and cordless phones for their basic hardware.
The main part of the repeater was operated on Citizen Band FM . I think that the output was channel 14 .
FM operation on CB was definitely a very unusual mode back then. Export radios were just barely hitting the scene and only a very few had FM. The main repeater was located on Palos Verdes and had a large high gain 11 meter array.
I always wondered more about this infamous system. How long did it operate? How many people actually accessed it? Who actually utilized it? What happened with it?
I held a Technician license and the system held less appeal to me.... I imagined it to be likely a similar if not the same cast of characters from the 147.435 odd split repeater shenanigans....
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