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GMRS repeater linking and the FCC

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In LA the FCC had a HAM box that was running so illegal 20 miles from their office!!!!! They new all about it. The FCC attitude was for over 30 years. Let it run because most (ALL) the illegal ham problems were confined to that one place and it still runs today! and the FCC in San Diego closed and the FCC in LA all but gone! Everyone retired and not replaced. Soon AI will replace them. You hear the hams all *****ing about GMRS and the funny thing in the gmrs rules forever say only 10 code accepted! So why are all the hams going on GMRS and calling 73's and qsy and so on? Thats against the rules.
 

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In LA the FCC had a HAM box that was running so illegal 20 miles from their office!!!!! They new all about it. The FCC attitude was for over 30 years. Let it run because most (ALL) the illegal ham problems were confined to that one place and it still runs today! and the FCC in San Diego closed and the FCC in LA all but gone! Everyone retired and not replaced. Soon AI will replace them. You hear the hams all *****ing about GMRS and the funny thing in the gmrs rules forever say only 10 code accepted! So why are all the hams going on GMRS and calling 73's and qsy and so on? Thats against the rules.
Uhh, there are a number of people who staff the Cerritos, CA office. How would AI replace the FCC?
 

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Fcc said 30 years ago they were working at removing repeaters OFF GMRS but there was no set date in stone!

FCC reads posts from mygmrs.com daily and bases a lot of decisions on what they read.

The FCC told you 30 years ago that repeaters are going away on GMRS?
The FCC reads myGMRS.com and bases decisions on what they read?

Both statements are laughable. Please cite your references.
 

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I miss the days of being able to call Steve directly and getting things done.
Same could be said about the Detroit Field Office.

Irby Talent, and James Bridgewater, (Field Office Chief Engineers), were very responsive to "problems", and now that the field office has closed, pirate radio is up, non-hams are on the ham bands, and GMRS is sounding like 80 meters. So much for the Tiger Teams that would fix things.

It's also "disappointing" to hear good ops talk about vigilante tactics against the malcontents.
 

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Wahh wahh wahh... Diaper time again.
They're generally the same ones trying to shame others into doing what they want with inane empty threats of prison time for playing music, farts, or generally being a lid. What they end up doing, is showing themselves to be massively larger (and apparently illiterate) lids then the ones they want to silence.
 
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