School busted for GMRS/FRS use

[slicerwizard]

So the letter is dated January 31,2019 but is about activity noted on May 8, 2018.

So pretty fast for government work?

 

[nd5y]

Where do you go on the FCC's website to find these investigation PDFs?

Enforcement
Click on Actions and Publications

also
EB - Field Actions 2019

 

[mancow]

I for one feel safer.

At least I'm still getting 20 "Your car warranty has expired", "Do you need a knee brace", "We can help your chronic pain" calls a day. Would much rather see them go after schools trying to keep daily operations going.

 

[eaf1956]

A malfunctioning radio can absolutely violate FCC rules. It's up to a human to notice it, confirm it and fix it.

Without a human to power it and to transmit the radio in and of itself does nothing...

 

[mancow]

Like the FBI who had a repeater transmitting for 6 months straight here.

 

[Hans13]

A malfunctioning radio can absolutely violate FCC rules. It's up to a human to notice it, confirm it and fix it.

I believe it was a joke.

r/whoosh

 

[Hans13]

Like the FBI who had a repeater transmitting for 6 months straight here.

How did their NAL pan out? /sarc

 

[mancow]

How did their NAL pan out? /sarc

Just as you would suspect.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

This NAL gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in me guttyworks.

 

[speedway_navigator]

About half way down the FCC column there are links to enforcement and field notices.
https://tacticalrf.com/tech/

If you watch closely you will see the enforcement page jump to the new site from the old one. I don't know when they did the update, I've had the old link for a few years now.

If anyone has a link they want added let me know.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

They should go after the radio business that programmed and set up this system as well.

They should, but the Major Manufacturer years ago lobbied the FCC to make licensees and unlicensed end users solely responsible. At same time the requirement for shop techs to have a GROL was abolished. Deregulation and cost savings for Major Manufacturer.

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[ipfd320]

here is the link for the NAL Orders Section

Orders

 

[12dbsinad]

What!? You mean no Baoturds were in use?? That's surprising. They are real attractive at 30 dollar a piece..

 

[cmdrwill]

W8RMH said:


They should go after the radio business that programmed and set up this system as well.

Exactly.....

 

[12dbsinad]

W8RMH said:


They should go after the radio business that programmed and set up this system as well.

Exactly.....

I agree, but I'd be willing to bet some in-house IT guy who "knows radios" and dabbles with radio programming probably didn't know any better.

I'm always willing to give the benefit of the doubt a professional radio shop did NOT set this up. Although, I've been wrong before..

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

I agree, but I'd be willing to bet some in-house IT guy who "knows radios" and dabbles with radio programming probably didn't know any better.

I'm always willing to give the benefit of the doubt a professional radio shop did NOT set this up. Although, I've been wrong before..

I had a client, a college, that liked to shoo around, constantly on the cheap. They were using three different shops for their different campuses. They had dozens of simplex frequencies in the radios that were unlicensed. A repeater was unlicensed and still is. The simplex frequencies were also licensed to those various shops. But they were not leasing radios or operating under any agreement.

I pointed this out when making recommendations. They had three different experts other than me in the project so I backed out when it became clear that common sense and FCC compliance were being trumped by CHEAP.

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[cmdrwill]

I'm always willing to give the benefit of the doubt a professional radio shop did NOT set this up. Although, I've been wrong before..

There are several Motorola so called "professional radio shop" 's in So Cal that do exactly the same thing.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

There are several Motorola so called "professional radio shop" 's in So Cal that do exactly the same thing.

I contacted the frequency coordinator for some part 90 IB pairs in South Florida.

They suggested monitoring the channels first for a clear one because of unlicensed operation. I told them to just do their job, coordinate from the FCC database and we would report the unlicensed actors to the FCC. I guess it is that bad. I think the shops are to blame.

Also many 12.5 KHz pairs are unavailable because NXDN has taken an odd 6,25 KHz slice. So DMR is edged out by careless NXDN channel assignments.

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WRBV403 was issued a month later after the violation.

 

[GrumpyGuard]

"operating Kenwood KPG-134D two-way radios"

Oh, really?

Do the talk through the hole on the cd?