You know when I started looking into gmrs radios for hunting and off roading....dear lord the radio police online are out of this world. Fuck I was scared to even think about getting these radios. “The fcc will find me immediately and fine me 10k” then I slowly started coming across comments like this LOL
@@altha-rf1et The only people caught and fined in our area this year was a public school and one static radio station. Not a single one of the thousands of people around here using handheld hams and moving around like off roaders, hunters etc never get caught
@@h.sapienstechnologicus8865 I dunno. With all the Kiwi SDRs popping up now that use GPS vs the difference in time it takes radio to hit them, it's much easier for folks to triangulate positions of these rogue broadcasts. We have one issue with a guy on a local repeater who only broadcasts for 3 seconds at random intervals. I am looking forward to this technology improving to where these people are much easier to catch.
Sadly, the official "hall monitor" for Europe had to give up after his neighbor started jamming his receivers, and the German PTT office couldn't/wouldn't make him stop. Also, the RFI enforcement folks at the National Radio Quiet Zone, have had to give up on some sources, like Wi-Fi, saying they "fear for their lives" if they cite someone.
man they dont even need to pay these guys. I bet if they made this job for volunteers it would get 10x the workers. All the retired old guys would do this for free
wanted to get my license, Failed the Test. I have parkinson's Doease.. my memory is just not as good anymore, Not right that the government has to stick its noise in everything and License everything that use ot be free
Sorry to hear about your health problems.Get an export 11 meter sideband cb ,and a decent antenna,just don’t transmit on 10 and 12 meter ham bands, just listen. I live in North Wales 🏴 and have been back 11 meter free banding for 4 months.I have talked to 37 countries up to now,furthest contact 3400 miles,French Guiana.South America,using 35 watts.As long as you don’t transmit on the ham bands or cause any problems you will be ok.Take care,all the best,cheers.Siôn.163 SJ 242.
A very simple way to keep them off your Trail is something that certain people I know have been using the last 20 years you use a signal condenser set up several antennas in different areas and piggyback your signal that way the signals coming from many different places and if one gets found out and they take it down that's fine they will never find you
@@ApartmentKing66 yea. I am one of those "old farts". If that's all I had to do is catch some kid talking on the airwaves, I would do everyone a favor and shoot myself. F the FCC.
the old man cut the guy off when he was talking about his HAM father in law right in mid sentence . Lost immediate respect . I have been a HAM for 50 years now myself and I have seen the FCC become less and less involved in the enforcement side of Amateur radio handing off testing and policing procedures of the HAM bands to active amateurs themselves. They are too busy with the bureaucracy that is all consuming . I have been listening to the arguments , fighting and nonsense that has been on going on 14.313 ( maritime mobile net ) and also on the 75 meter phone band in the late evenings . ( They are still fighting the civil war on 80 meters ) for over 30 years now ... Now the commission has the brass to levy licensing fee on us for all the good we Amateurs do and have done throughout History without asking for a dime . If I had a nickel for the number of phone patches I ran for our military or for the traffic I handled in and out of devastated areas of natural disaster ( like Mt. ST. Helens eruption etc. ) , I would be rich .... Gimmee a break ... de KA3FAD
I think the $35 is fine. I’ve found more people interested in GMRS than ham for the simple fact it costs something. “It must be worth more if you have to pay” lol
So fucking what if people don't take video or pictures horizontally and who the fuck are you critique how a video or picture is shot? are you a professional photographer or a professional cinematographer? if not shut the fuck up and if so shut the fuck up!
I am a professional photographer and he's right. Should be horizontal usually. He may not have had a good horizontal view in this case because he is shooting between the seats so, hey, it's OK.
Exactly. I'll add FM radio stations, because corporations like iHeartRadio wield a LOT of power and can pressure the FCC to track down a pirate radio operator who is stepping into their territory/frequency. People have to keep in mind that the FCC has a very limited budget, and THAT is their biggest constraint. All the fear mongering we hear from sad hams about reporting pirates the FCC are empty threats, unless you're polluting emergency service frequencies or FM radio station frequencies. You get what you pay for and FCC enforcement, or lack thereof, has more to do with a lack of funding more than anything else.
Call the FCC to report interference, the only thing they will tell you is to call the emergency number if you are a part of some sort of government operations. If not it will just hang up on you 😊
Yeah you say that until it's your radio being interfered with. Who are you going to call when one of your neighbors decides to be a jerk and jam your Wi-Fi signal?
I play a lot of big airsoft games, theres a lot of ham radios used illegally in airsoft so i tell everyone either get licensed or use CB, well anyways, i made directional antennas for the ham and the cb, i have to people with these antennas as well as compasses, both of these guys tell me 2 bearings which i then use to draw lines on a map and thus know an enemy location, i call this group the RRU, radio reconisuns unit
I like the ingenuity but Its literally not that important, there is not enough HAM or GMRS operators to deserve any level of Hall Monitoring these days. it's a dying hobby that I am glad there are still some people doing it but just like morse code, its too old to matter.
@@TIB1973 idk. Im 31 and just got my license and have racked up some radios. It's actually the best hobby I have had and I really enjoy it. It would be sad if it went away honestly, it brings me so much joy.
@@aquatone327 Not saying the radio or your hobby should go away, I am saying there aren't enough people doing the same hobby to warrant the regulation around it.
It is time for the FCC to work on the CB bands again there a few people that wipe out three or four channels on each side of the one they use. There are some people that depend on CB for help with work.
It was really pathetic to try to paint radio enthusiasts as domestic terrorists. Shows all you need to know about these morons frame of mind. Everyone is out to get them and every radio guy is the next big bust how sickening. " You guys catch any rapeist or murderers today"? No but we got some sonofabitch running a 20 dollar chinese radio the world is once again safe.
I just tracked down this enforcement agent to Washington D.C. Damn I'm good. Well not that good, I just googled the radio stations call sign from the vehicles stereo WTOP.
In the old CB days we used to have contests called "bunny hunts" A mobile Cb'er would drive and park somewhere and key up for periods of time and we would track them down. You would be surprised how fast we could find the " bunny" with only a regular CB radio!
My buddy got nailed about 25 years ago. Different tech then but still got him. He was talking on a modded cb and with 500 watts. He was way up above ch 40 on lower ssb..they took all is equipment and he got a 50,000 dollar fine instead of jail time...
Is FCC really going to enforce anything if I just have a standard 5W Midland GMRS radio just to talk with my wife and daughter on the farm? I have no intention to interfere with emergency services....how does the FCC actually find "violators"...they just continually scan all channels and all privacy channels?
Most likely not because the range isn’t that far and the odds of finding you is slim. You are suppose to announce your GMRS call sign to show you have a license. Also, it isn’t that slow to scan through the GMRS signals. The idea is to limit people to using the GMRS band so it remains quiet for those who are willing to pay money to those enforcing legal operations. You can buy portable CB radios or use the MURS. MURS are usually smaller to use. Both radios don’t require a license and operate at 2 and 4 watts. They also work better than the GMRS portable radios because of the longer antennas. CB uses AM that bounces vs FM that get’s absorbed.
If anyone can make more videos of actual FCC enforcement officers I'd really love to see them... they are kind of the unsung type of officer in law enforcement. What does one need to do in terms of college etc to become one anyway? Are a lot of them electrical engineers who specialized in telecom? Or more criminal justice who learned to be technicians of sorts.
well you need to first be a boomer and than you got enough free time to look through others peoples shit to snitch them out to government regional Führer like a good loyal subject
That is why I keep my power level below 1 watt. If I can do 1 watt legally on FRS and my cell Phone. Plus, a Massive 4 watts legally on CB Than I Have a Case for Very Micro broadcasting. My 1 watt has little chance of causing interference.
all those people who are hating this video, are the same ones who dont have a license...LOL Damn this video was cut way too short and please next time please film the correct way. thx.
To listen in is just a matter of having a scanner with the right software... everything is still in plaintext but you have DPLs* so that multiple users can broadcast packets of digital voice. The whole point is to share 1 frequency for multiple users/sessions - encryption would eat too much into the bandwidth. DPL is just a way of tagging a conversation and keeping everything separate so you don't get your neighbor's voice call. *or their proprietary/system standard equivalents
Oh ya? You arent gonna find shit that will let you listen to dmr with even basic privacy turned on. or nxdn... or p25 eith enc... there's plenty that sounds like that "digital noise" that isnt as simple to listen to as "just getting a scanner". This isnt 1992.
I can tell you from professional experience that encryption does not, in general, require much more bandwidth. Usually there is session establishment overhead for things like key exchange and authentication, but once an encrypted session is underway there is usually very little ongoing extra bandwidth consumed in support of encryption.
You should have asked him what the budget was for his department, :D I think enforcement would be a wonderful change. But not like this. Not like 5 people for huge city or something. People constantly use things without knowing how they ACTUALLY work. But I wouldn't spend tax money on the FCC off the bat. People using stuff wrong... HAVE YOU TAKEN THE DMV DRIVING EXAM? Lmao, people don't know how to change a tire. The FCC doesn't stop death. If we have a limited budget, hold off on FCC funding.
Maybe the FCC could do their job, if Congress would give them the money and respect they deserve, and then get out of the way. All Congress wants the FCC to do is sell spectrum, and turn off the sound during commercials.
Wow don't think that happens in UK but on saying that I have been on channel talking and been asked to move because I was on a shipping frq. ..it's not a problem for anyone if you have a bit of sence .....the airwaves aren't owned they are for anyone
Your jammer has to actively transmit at the entire spectrum bandwidth, his equipment has, if you want to render his instrument unusable, otherwise your jammer wouldn’t work, and will show up as an normal radio signal on the FFT plotter. and even then, he will easily trace you by using the bearing. Good luck jamming an SDR or surveillance spectrum analyzer
@@furonwarrior nope it can easily be done by using a broadband amp and a very fast scan rate on a Chinese Ebay VFO. Set the frequency scanning at a couple khz up and down the spectrum. All Frequencies the vfo is capable of will be transmitted. It will block almost all frequencies. I wouldn't suggest ever doing it though. It would be catastrophic to society.
Please help me sir. I don't know how they hear me, I dont have any radio or laptop or devices to communicate with anyone. But I talk to them with my mouth closed all day long and I just want to record all there death threats and vulgar profanity so I can seek legal action. Please sir can you help me?
How is this an unreasonable seizure or search? How is a violation of free speech? The first amendment does not protect illegal activities. Please read up on how amendments work before making baseless accusations
What these FCC guys are saying is the exact reason people should not get licensed. The FCC keeps a database of every licensed radio operator. That database is available to the public. If you want everyone to know your name and your location then get a license. sample here www.arrl.org/advanced-call-sign-search. Also note that in this video they can only target fixed transmitters. People with hand held or mobile radios would be too hard for them to track.
Yeah this is exactly why I don't have one, why pay money for a callsign I'll never use and a license that is never enforced? I think the test itself isn't bad though, it contains a lot of basic information that everyone should know and taking a simulated practice version really is a good place to start for beginners!
There are too many people, especially trolls just out to cause trouble, for everyone to just do as they please. Without rules the airwaves would be unusable.
Its more because you need to buy a license to broadcast on am or fm. They try to stop unlicensed people from playing uncensored music or themselves swearing or talking propaganda. Also if you choose a frequency that overlaps a licensed station which is often, they’ll definitely be on you fast. It’s basically the radio version of driving without a license
I was doing some wifi jamming for like 4 days straight on what appears to be surveillance equipment (in a residential only area, so what or who it's for I wish I could figure out).. anyway that's the longest I've ever jammed wifi for, by far. Finally and luckily, I'm outside just as the FCC guy is slowly creeping up the road with this scanning device out the window in his left hand, lol... I run back in and killswitch my gear, thank God. Anyone know the penalty in the US for jamming wifi? I'd imagine it's fines, a civil case, not criminal. But if you can't pay the fines then what happens?
Oh also I've stopped doing it, and took the FCC's presence as a warning. I knew it was them, especially with the slow slow driving, stopping every so many feet, esp in front of my place, and when I come back 20-30 mins later they're at the bottom of my street (there was some 2nd car doing I don't know what exactly) conversing with their cars parked opposite the side you enter this road. There are just a lot of weird access points around me and when I detect signal direction in a primitive way with a signal meter using a sound tone I can hear when not looking (faster beeping = dBm increase) I find the access points , most of which I'm concerned of have no name at all, are located somewhere in my house or on our property... One of the devices is made by this company per the MAC address:www.e-watch.com
Wow that's scary. Can you cite the claim of the 5 years in prison thing because as far as I know radio jamming is never jailable in the USA, at least not in connecticut but these are more like federal laws I think or FCC code or whatever. My reasons for doing it was I believe strongly that there are surveillance devices in say our utility poles around the street here. heck, I catch MAC addresses on Kismet , have caught two now made by companies (whatever the device may be) which only sell surveillance equipment for basically the FBI or that level of surveillance, not your everyday stuff... such as www.e-watch.com Does that give me a license to jam? no.. I did stop because that laptop broke.. maybe that happened for you know a 'reason' as we tend to say. I know I have soething like schizophrenia if not something similar because I"m convinced of this wiretapping, yet I find actual evidence of it when deeply scanning for long periods of time, the wifi radio info around me. Lately, I've been just listening to 800-900 MHz trunked radio with a reciever.. thank god it's not half or full duplex haha. Thanks though man.. I'll try to just not do that because I know legally I'm not justified to jam communications even if I find them to be unethical. If we all could do that then we could jam just baout anything
+Frater Tenc It's currently listed in the F.C.C.rules and regs in ham radio operations.Many years ago when it was required for CB'ers to be licenced,this rule was in full standing with them as well.
.......oh boy.....he probably stays awake at night worrying about all of the airsofters and milsim dudes using Baofengs on FRS and GMRS ((rolls eyes))
lol
Lol the video ended with "we don't do shit"
Or worse... MURS...
You sound like a fuckin nerd
You know when I started looking into gmrs radios for hunting and off roading....dear lord the radio police online are out of this world. Fuck I was scared to even think about getting these radios. “The fcc will find me immediately and fine me 10k” then I slowly started coming across comments like this LOL
And they have one of these vehicles for every 25 states.
Still! being my luck I would get caught
@@altha-rf1et The only people caught and fined in our area this year was a public school and one static radio station. Not a single one of the thousands of people around here using handheld hams and moving around like off roaders, hunters etc never get caught
@@teo2975 true that. If you are “mobile”, you will never get caught
@@h.sapienstechnologicus8865 I dunno. With all the Kiwi SDRs popping up now that use GPS vs the difference in time it takes radio to hit them, it's much easier for folks to triangulate positions of these rogue broadcasts. We have one issue with a guy on a local repeater who only broadcasts for 3 seconds at random intervals. I am looking forward to this technology improving to where these people are much easier to catch.
@@rowenhusky and when you find them the FCC will put your complaint on the STACK of other complaints they do not care about.
No offense but someone always has to be a hall monitor.
lol
Sadly, the official "hall monitor" for Europe had to give up after his neighbor started jamming his receivers, and the German PTT office couldn't/wouldn't make him stop.
Also, the RFI enforcement folks at the National Radio Quiet Zone, have had to give up on some sources, like Wi-Fi, saying they "fear for their lives" if they cite someone.
Lol more like a "hall effect monitor"
Probably the same guy screaming "Get off my lawn" on sundays.
When it comes to HARASSMENT EVEN THE ROUGE POLICE NEED TO BE CHECKED
apparently the FCC owns a "super-SDR"
totally not tech that the average person can buy for $25.
Yeah I'm willing to bet that it's the databases that would be cool... police swat frequencies and shit
This video is 12 years old....
I doubt it was that cheap 12 years ago
Same thing I was thinking
Well done, you've realised things in tech advance over decades. Oh wait, no, you didn't...
O no we have a guy talking to his friend without a liocence! Deploy the senior hall monitor squad
man they dont even need to pay these guys. I bet if they made this job for volunteers it would get 10x the workers. All the retired old guys would do this for free
It would be cool to key up a 1.5kw cb radio and let one rip into the mic right next to these geezers. 🤣😂🙈 Geeter done son. 😂
Hell yeah
a new level in boring has been achieved. well done. didnt think it was possible.
This and the gate guards on military bases 😂
wanted to get my license, Failed the Test. I have parkinson's Doease.. my memory is just not as good anymore, Not right that the government has to stick its noise in everything and License everything that use ot be free
It always comes down to control and money.
Sorry to hear about your health problems.Get an export 11 meter sideband cb ,and a decent antenna,just don’t transmit on 10 and 12 meter ham bands, just listen. I live in North Wales 🏴 and have been back 11 meter free banding for 4 months.I have talked to 37 countries up to now,furthest contact 3400 miles,French Guiana.South America,using 35 watts.As long as you don’t transmit on the ham bands or cause any problems you will be ok.Take care,all the best,cheers.Siôn.163 SJ 242.
Old inspector gadget with his gadget van again.
A way for an old fart with nothing better to do to get outta the wife's hair.
A very simple way to keep them off your Trail is something that certain people I know have been using the last 20 years you use a signal condenser set up several antennas in different areas and piggyback your signal that way the signals coming from many different places and if one gets found out and they take it down that's fine they will never find you
@@therealogbaggy470 or you could do like christian Slater in pump up the Volume and drive around in a Jeep.
@@ApartmentKing66 yea. I am one of those "old farts". If that's all I had to do is catch some kid talking on the airwaves, I would do everyone a favor and shoot myself. F the FCC.
the old man cut the guy off when he was talking about his HAM father in law right in mid sentence . Lost immediate respect . I have been a HAM for 50 years now myself and I have seen the FCC become less and less involved in the enforcement side of Amateur radio handing off testing and policing procedures of the HAM bands to active amateurs themselves. They are too busy with the bureaucracy that is all consuming . I have been listening to the arguments , fighting and nonsense that has been on going on 14.313 ( maritime mobile net ) and also on the 75 meter phone band in the late evenings . ( They are still fighting the civil war on 80 meters ) for over 30 years now ... Now the commission has the brass to levy licensing fee on us for all the good we Amateurs do and have done throughout History without asking for a dime . If I had a nickel for the number of phone patches I ran for our military or for the traffic I handled in and out of devastated areas of natural disaster ( like Mt. ST. Helens eruption etc. ) , I would be rich .... Gimmee a break ... de KA3FAD
I think the $35 is fine. I’ve found more people interested in GMRS than ham for the simple fact it costs something. “It must be worth more if you have to pay” lol
@@echo-hotel More people are interested in GMRS so as not to have to deal with the HAM community
Quit your bitching old man spin the dial and smile
This is a great use of taxpayer money (said in a very sarcastic tone)
lol
Well thanks for showing us how you do it! I'll be sure to learn how to evade the FCC now :)
Man, the FCC doesn't care about you.
@@Tradiejoe284 they served me a warning last year :/
@@userNULL What were you doing? 😂
The FCC is just a supersized FBI for radio stations.
Waste of money too
Super size? Speak for... idk
@@randykitchleburger2780 wat
That’s some really nice wardriving equipment right there.
Next time please always record videos and take pictures horizontally. Ugh. Pictures are hard to see . Doesn't fill screen.
So fucking what if people don't take video or pictures horizontally and who the fuck are you critique how a video or picture is shot? are you a professional photographer or a professional cinematographer? if not shut the fuck up and if so shut the fuck up!
I am a professional photographer and he's right. Should be horizontal usually. He may not have had a good horizontal view in this case because he is shooting between the seats so, hey, it's OK.
Be grateful this is available to view for free lol, some people I swear...
If ur not messing with emergency services the fcc doesn't care
Exactly. I'll add FM radio stations, because corporations like iHeartRadio wield a LOT of power and can pressure the FCC to track down a pirate radio operator who is stepping into their territory/frequency.
People have to keep in mind that the FCC has a very limited budget, and THAT is their biggest constraint. All the fear mongering we hear from sad hams about reporting pirates the FCC are empty threats, unless you're polluting emergency service frequencies or FM radio station frequencies. You get what you pay for and FCC enforcement, or lack thereof, has more to do with a lack of funding more than anything else.
Call the FCC to report interference, the only thing they will tell you is to call the emergency number if you are a part of some sort of government operations. If not it will just hang up on you 😊
I wonder what a low level EMP would do to that vehicle, & the equipment in it?
Absolutely nothing
@@chalupasupreme5672 depends what low level means.
Usa a mobile tesla coil to block radio transmissions
A Tesla Coil would impact AM, SSB, & CW, however FM would mostlikely be immune.
@@leeskyles9903 Tesla coil? You think this Command and Conque
If it was a real big of a deal they'll shut down the companies from making any more radios. What a bored government. Hunt down kids for fun
There are no illegal radios. There is only illegal use of a radio. Out of band operation, excessive power, unlicensed operation, etc.
@Urbexx Jeremy Try broadcasting on a police frequency and see what happens.
So it's a glorified SDR...
Kandi Klover very toxic
Kandi Klover - You should seek help...
"Glorified SDR" ... Have you shopped for an HF rig lately?
You can polish a turd but it will, still be a turd. ...But you can't glorify an SDR.
There's always a snitch somewhere.
@Dommosa we're everywhere
what a waste of taxpayer money
Yeah you say that until it's your radio being interfered with. Who are you going to call when one of your neighbors decides to be a jerk and jam your Wi-Fi signal?
@@Ham549 who the fuck jams wifi
@Urbexx Jeremy funny thing is my nickname has nothing to do with radios and I had that long before I got into them.
@@Ham549 TAXATION IS THEFT
@@Spectrumsurfer so is using public resources without contribution.
I play a lot of big airsoft games, theres a lot of ham radios used illegally in airsoft so i tell everyone either get licensed or use CB, well anyways, i made directional antennas for the ham and the cb, i have to people with these antennas as well as compasses, both of these guys tell me 2 bearings which i then use to draw lines on a map and thus know an enemy location, i call this group the RRU, radio reconisuns unit
Thats sick af
I like the ingenuity but Its literally not that important, there is not enough HAM or GMRS operators to deserve any level of Hall Monitoring these days. it's a dying hobby that I am glad there are still some people doing it but just like morse code, its too old to matter.
reconnaissance*..... Yea Iooked it up, so what?! 😏🙃😉
@@TIB1973 idk. Im 31 and just got my license and have racked up some radios. It's actually the best hobby I have had and I really enjoy it. It would be sad if it went away honestly, it brings me so much joy.
@@aquatone327 Not saying the radio or your hobby should go away, I am saying there aren't enough people doing the same hobby to warrant the regulation around it.
Yet they ignore the 10 Pirate radio stations on the FM radio dial here in Miami.
Lol, cool. Pirate stations are the best.
It is time for the FCC to work on the CB bands again there a few people that wipe out three or four channels on each side of the one they use. There are some people that depend on CB for help with work.
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemy even closer..
Are there guns around them? Someone has seen way too many movies...
It was really pathetic to try to paint radio enthusiasts as domestic terrorists. Shows all you need to know about these morons frame of mind. Everyone is out to get them and every radio guy is the next big bust how sickening. " You guys catch any rapeist or murderers today"? No but we got some sonofabitch running a 20 dollar chinese radio the world is once again safe.
@Game Room well...History DOES repeat itself... and piracy is Alive and well my friend... lol!
What cheezedicks
Shouldn't "enforcement" be in air quotes?
why vertical? horizontal would be way better ruined being vertical
I just tracked down this enforcement agent to Washington D.C. Damn I'm good. Well not that good, I just googled the radio stations call sign from the vehicles stereo WTOP.
Haha good job!
u r better than them :)
Bay boy's, bad boy's whatcha gonna do...
The first transmission is most certainly POCSAG (pagers).
Christopher Trudeau Ha, I heard the same thing. Is he hunting pocsag transmitters I wonder?
yup, POCSAG 1200 baud
There are 3 of these vehicles! Wow! America strong 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Too bad the fcc doesn’t put half that effort into robo calls
In the old CB days we used to have contests called "bunny hunts" A mobile Cb'er would drive and park somewhere and key up for periods of time and we would track them down. You would be surprised how fast we could find the " bunny" with only a regular CB radio!
Cool story check out my cabover channel, old school trucks
We used to set up fights in traffic between truckers, and take pictures of them pulling over.
fox hunts
no enforceable actions can be taken against talking to friends and family lol..
POCSAG modem traffic blasting in the background
The Yang Ming canister on Wayne Ave is the same as the Ellison Park
My buddy got nailed about 25 years ago. Different tech then but still got him. He was talking on a modded cb and with 500 watts. He was way up above ch 40 on lower ssb..they took all is equipment and he got a 50,000 dollar fine instead of jail time...
tell your bro thanks for taking one for the team, now I know I have nothing to worry about using a baofeng on 1 watt for airsoft
Is FCC really going to enforce anything if I just have a standard 5W Midland GMRS radio just to talk with my wife and daughter on the farm? I have no intention to interfere with emergency services....how does the FCC actually find "violators"...they just continually scan all channels and all privacy channels?
Family Radio Service: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service
Most likely not because the range isn’t that far and the odds of finding you is slim. You are suppose to announce your GMRS call sign to show you have a license. Also, it isn’t that slow to scan through the GMRS signals. The idea is to limit people to using the GMRS band so it remains quiet for those who are willing to pay money to those enforcing legal operations. You can buy portable CB radios or use the MURS. MURS are usually smaller to use. Both radios don’t require a license and operate at 2 and 4 watts. They also work better than the GMRS portable radios because of the longer antennas. CB uses AM that bounces vs FM that get’s absorbed.
No they don’t care
How free are you?
No, they don't care. Especially if your signals aren't very strong.
Now that they started charging for a Ham Radio license do you think will get more of this? haha had to ask..
I dont know what this is but i got this recommended is the police after me..
If anyone can make more videos of actual FCC enforcement officers I'd really love to see them... they are kind of the unsung type of officer in law enforcement. What does one need to do in terms of college etc to become one anyway? Are a lot of them electrical engineers who specialized in telecom? Or more criminal justice who learned to be technicians of sorts.
Frater Tenc 1st, you must get a life, and then and only then you will understand why there isn't so much enforcement.
I am pretty sure being an asshole is the only current requirement, after that maybe being over 5' 2".
well you need to first be a boomer and than you got enough free time to look through others peoples shit to snitch them out to government regional Führer like a good loyal subject
It's a simple process. Drink lots of Bud Light and take it in the tail pipe 5-6 x a week & BAM you're a FCC enforcement officer.
I would love to see his equipment setup in that vehicle as to what he's using gr8 track them..
Gr8
Scumbags want your $$$$ no matter what!
This is how the Gov tracks aliens.
Most aliens are using subspace radio
I think most aliens have since switched to digital comms.
its how they keep up with trumps mental state
Uncle Charlie is coming for you!
Those are not toys , note the update time on the spectrum display
Dorks
That is why I keep my power level below 1 watt. If I can do 1 watt legally on FRS and my cell Phone. Plus, a Massive 4 watts legally on CB Than I Have a Case for Very Micro broadcasting. My 1 watt has little chance of causing interference.
Are you mentally challenged?
Massive 4 watts? Hah. You should see those guys with those 8+ pill amps
all those people who are hating this video, are the same ones who dont have a license...LOL
Damn this video was cut way too short and please next time please film the correct way. thx.
No licence required on 11 meter (C.B. bands) since 1982. Most popular short wave band.
anything that starts with federal has to be one big mess look at post office as an example they have people sorting mail that can not read
dont need him hams rat on themselves !
Is that a BlackBerry?
Here because of Malcom in the Middle Garage Sale. Episode.
To listen in is just a matter of having a scanner with the right software... everything is still in plaintext but you have DPLs* so that multiple users can broadcast packets of digital voice. The whole point is to share 1 frequency for multiple users/sessions - encryption would eat too much into the bandwidth. DPL is just a way of tagging a conversation and keeping everything separate so you don't get your neighbor's voice call.
*or their proprietary/system standard equivalents
Oh ya? You arent gonna find shit that will let you listen to dmr with even basic privacy turned on. or nxdn... or p25 eith enc... there's plenty that sounds like that "digital noise" that isnt as simple to listen to as "just getting a scanner". This isnt 1992.
I can tell you from professional experience that encryption does not, in general, require much more bandwidth. Usually there is session establishment overhead for things like key exchange and authentication, but once an encrypted session is underway there is usually very little ongoing extra bandwidth consumed in support of encryption.
You should have asked him what the budget was for his department, :D I think enforcement would be a wonderful change. But not like this. Not like 5 people for huge city or something. People constantly use things without knowing how they ACTUALLY work. But I wouldn't spend tax money on the FCC off the bat. People using stuff wrong... HAVE YOU TAKEN THE DMV DRIVING EXAM? Lmao, people don't know how to change a tire. The FCC doesn't stop death. If we have a limited budget, hold off on FCC funding.
The guys not an FCC employee. He’s a creep in a van.
enforcement for what? Get real.
You don't have a budget, you're the USA.
dont you just hate it when people dont turn there phones sideways
Don't you just hate it when people use there instead of the correct their?
@@SpeccyMan Just as much as vertical video.
Back in the old days people used cb radios and hooked em to phone lines 😁 do they still have landlines ?
@Zionism toHell Yes works even better with broadband data lines using the shield as an antenna. Just google part 15 am broadcasting
HACK RF DOES THE MAJORITY ! EXCEPT DB
Is that a blackberry on the center console ? How old is that.....?
If you'd looked at the video's upload date, 10 years ago.
the fcc dude seemed disappointed he cant listen in on cell phones any more.
I stumbled across some cell phone conversations back in the day, so far back that every conversation involved a drug deal. LMAO
What about a walkie talkie app that’s downloaded on your phone like the walkie talkie pro app
Nope, this would not apply. The FCC won't be able to decrypt your comms over 4G/5G. Plus, none of their rules apply on there anyway
I would love to do a ride along with this gentlemen.
Where can I see the rest of this video?
Break for Henry!
Breaka breaka one two
Ham radio operators = A bunch of snitches.
Get a license … it's only $1 a year.
@Zionism toHell Each time you renew (every 10 years) they charge you $10.
@Zionism toHell Perhaps there was a testing charge since each renewal I upgraded my license? W5USB
HAMs are like mormons, always spying and snitching on each other, it's pathetic
Wheres the FCC when there are 500,000 watt stations on citizens band? 😂
Nah, muddick will key up until his amp pops, then he won't know how to fix it
Cant catch me!
I'm gonna go with this guy is probably just a ham guy with nothing better to do and turns complaints in to the FCC.
Only if it causes disturbance to public service. Otherwise they don't give a fuck
Imagine if you put all that time and energy into curing cancer instead of scaring the hell out of kids and their science projects.
most of these type of people arent that stupid... wasting time trying to cure something that isnt cureable, by design.
@@ertonyrn by... design? XD hoo boy...
Channel 6 on CB is known to have illegal transmissions. Echo-mics alone deserve to be fined.
Uh oh. My connex and texas star 667 might buzz his dash! He better stay off my routes.
Anybody know what that digital sound noise was at 0:52, I've heard it before and I was wondering what it was.
Pagers, probably POCSAG
Ah yes a friend told me that's what this most likely is, thanks!
It would be nice if they would do the job we pay tax money for. Jammers and fools operate on the ham bands for decades with no FCC action.
stay mad boomtard
Maybe the FCC could do their job, if Congress would give them the money and respect they deserve, and then get out of the way.
All Congress wants the FCC to do is sell spectrum, and turn off the sound during commercials.
@@MMAchad96 Stay clueless, idiot.
Wow don't think that happens in UK but on saying that I have been on channel talking and been asked to move because I was on a shipping frq. ..it's not a problem for anyone if you have a bit of sence .....the airwaves aren't owned they are for anyone
wrong, our government owns everything, we must beg permission to look, and pay a fee to touch
Pretty sure this the bastard that keeps breaking into my car and busting my GPS jammer
But what if someone uses a jammer to disrupt your equipment ?
Your jammer has to actively transmit at the entire spectrum bandwidth, his equipment has, if you want to render his instrument unusable, otherwise your jammer wouldn’t work, and will show up as an normal radio signal on the FFT plotter. and even then, he will easily trace you by using the bearing. Good luck jamming an SDR or surveillance spectrum analyzer
An effective jammer would be massive and consume a lot of power. lol
@@furonwarrior nope it can easily be done by using a broadband amp and a very fast scan rate on a Chinese Ebay VFO. Set the frequency scanning at a couple khz up and down the spectrum. All Frequencies the vfo is capable of will be transmitted. It will block almost all frequencies. I wouldn't suggest ever doing it though. It would be catastrophic to society.
What if, I shoot the guy, sink his van in a lake, and bury his body on my 150 acre farm?
@@mickeymouse2.048nice, working on my Arduino now
80 IQ FCC
That would be a great job!
He's a snitch
Please help me sir. I don't know how they hear me, I dont have any radio or laptop or devices to communicate with anyone. But I talk to them with my mouth closed all day long and I just want to record all there death threats and vulgar profanity so I can seek legal action. Please sir can you help me?
I think that's just schizophrenia
@TheSmokinApe that’s some nice equipment from 12 years ago.
He'll need the NSA to listen in.
Dork
Oh boy! Won't be long now! Spread the word! Oh My!
A whole new level of crappy law enforcement. I guess someone has to enforce their ego.
the FCC needs to be better funded to actual track down illegal operators and confiscate radio equipment
What's the harm in illegal operators...
catch me if you can
1a and 4a violation.
How is this an unreasonable seizure or search? How is a violation of free speech? The first amendment does not protect illegal activities.
Please read up on how amendments work before making baseless accusations
WHAT IS THE FCC DOING ABOUT K1MAN ?
He died.
@@applebarkmusic1979 they killed him????
What these FCC guys are saying is the exact reason people should not get licensed. The FCC keeps a database of every licensed radio operator. That database is available to the public. If you want everyone to know your name and your location then get a license. sample here www.arrl.org/advanced-call-sign-search.
Also note that in this video they can only target fixed transmitters. People with hand held or mobile radios would be too hard for them to track.
its called a post office box
Yeah this is exactly why I don't have one, why pay money for a callsign I'll never use and a license that is never enforced? I think the test itself isn't bad though, it contains a lot of basic information that everyone should know and taking a simulated practice version really is a good place to start for beginners!
PO box, you can use a fake last name
Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech.
RonnieSixx agreed the fcc is bogus org anyway
theyre not "laws" ya dumb dumb.
There are too many people, especially trolls just out to cause trouble, for everyone to just do as they please. Without rules the airwaves would be unusable.
Radio waves aren't speech.
they better have a search warrant when they go to a person's house
Wouldn't a bunch of drones work better and faster to triangulate where a signal is coming from?
Yup.
Shh
This was 2010, so I don't think that would've been feasible at the time.
The FCC, like much of our administrative state, is an anachronism. Think WPA or TVA or Amtrak. Things government can't do and shouldn't do.
I yay more government over reach on individual freedoms.... 🤨 Go get a real job 🧐
Its more because you need to buy a license to broadcast on am or fm. They try to stop unlicensed people from playing uncensored music or themselves swearing or talking propaganda. Also if you choose a frequency that overlaps a licensed station which is often, they’ll definitely be on you fast.
It’s basically the radio version of driving without a license
I was doing some wifi jamming for like 4 days straight on what appears to be surveillance equipment (in a residential only area, so what or who it's for I wish I could figure out).. anyway that's the longest I've ever jammed wifi for, by far. Finally and luckily, I'm outside just as the FCC guy is slowly creeping up the road with this scanning device out the window in his left hand, lol... I run back in and killswitch my gear, thank God. Anyone know the penalty in the US for jamming wifi? I'd imagine it's fines, a civil case, not criminal. But if you can't pay the fines then what happens?
Oh also I've stopped doing it, and took the FCC's presence as a warning. I knew it was them, especially with the slow slow driving, stopping every so many feet, esp in front of my place, and when I come back 20-30 mins later they're at the bottom of my street (there was some 2nd car doing I don't know what exactly) conversing with their cars parked opposite the side you enter this road. There are just a lot of weird access points around me and when I detect signal direction in a primitive way with a signal meter using a sound tone I can hear when not looking (faster beeping = dBm increase) I find the access points , most of which I'm concerned of have no name at all, are located somewhere in my house or on our property... One of the devices is made by this company per the MAC address:www.e-watch.com
If caught,fines can be as high as $50,000.00 and up to 5 years imprisonment and classified as a felony!.
Wow that's scary. Can you cite the claim of the 5 years in prison thing because as far as I know radio jamming is never jailable in the USA, at least not in connecticut but these are more like federal laws I think or FCC code or whatever. My reasons for doing it was I believe strongly that there are surveillance devices in say our utility poles around the street here. heck, I catch MAC addresses on Kismet , have caught two now made by companies (whatever the device may be) which only sell surveillance equipment for basically the FBI or that level of surveillance, not your everyday stuff... such as www.e-watch.com
Does that give me a license to jam? no.. I did stop because that laptop broke.. maybe that happened for you know a 'reason' as we tend to say.
I know I have soething like schizophrenia if not something similar because I"m convinced of this wiretapping, yet I find actual evidence of it when deeply scanning for long periods of time, the wifi radio info around me. Lately, I've been just listening to 800-900 MHz trunked radio with a reciever.. thank god it's not half or full duplex haha. Thanks though man.. I'll try to just not do that because I know legally I'm not justified to jam communications even if I find them to be unethical. If we all could do that then we could jam just baout anything
+Frater Tenc It's currently listed in the F.C.C.rules and regs in ham radio operations.Many years ago when it was required for CB'ers to be licenced,this rule was in full standing with them as well.
+Matt Harris Not if it's used for unlawful means,that's like saying..."I have a driver's licence,so I can drive on the sidewalk now."