I posted this here in the CB part of the forum since MURS is license free and doesn't seem to have it's own area on this site.
My neighbor recently received a letter from the borough claiming that the frequency he operates on, 151.820, is "licensed" and "owned" by them through the FCC for use by the auxiliary police, and that if he doesn't stop using it for personal communications, the police are going to file criminal charges, and the borough will file a complaint with the FCC.
Now, I can't seem to find, for the life of me, anywhere on the FCC website anything about 151.820 except that it's been license free since on or before 2002 and that NO ENTITY will be granted exclusive use.
If I go to the Universal Licensing System and do an advanced search for my state, I can locate frequencies I know the borough and county are licensed for when doing an exact frequency search.
If I put 151.820 in an exact frequency search for licensed operators. Guess what? NONE FOUND.
The borough manager was told by the borough fire chief and 1 police dispatcher (who both just listen on their scanners) that the frequency he's talking on is a licensed channel that belongs to auxiliary police (which have since been disbanded/absorbed by fire police/no longer use that frequency)
Their mistake began when the company that does the radios for them put a MURS frequency in their radios so they could start using them right away. Now the people who still listen there are under the impression that it "belongs" to them and instead of locking it out of their scanners, are complaining about people being there/the types of conversations that are held and are actually threatening this mans freedom because of their false information. How's that for local government at work?
My neighbor recently received a letter from the borough claiming that the frequency he operates on, 151.820, is "licensed" and "owned" by them through the FCC for use by the auxiliary police, and that if he doesn't stop using it for personal communications, the police are going to file criminal charges, and the borough will file a complaint with the FCC.
Now, I can't seem to find, for the life of me, anywhere on the FCC website anything about 151.820 except that it's been license free since on or before 2002 and that NO ENTITY will be granted exclusive use.
If I go to the Universal Licensing System and do an advanced search for my state, I can locate frequencies I know the borough and county are licensed for when doing an exact frequency search.
If I put 151.820 in an exact frequency search for licensed operators. Guess what? NONE FOUND.
The borough manager was told by the borough fire chief and 1 police dispatcher (who both just listen on their scanners) that the frequency he's talking on is a licensed channel that belongs to auxiliary police (which have since been disbanded/absorbed by fire police/no longer use that frequency)
Their mistake began when the company that does the radios for them put a MURS frequency in their radios so they could start using them right away. Now the people who still listen there are under the impression that it "belongs" to them and instead of locking it out of their scanners, are complaining about people being there/the types of conversations that are held and are actually threatening this mans freedom because of their false information. How's that for local government at work?