FCC Law Enforcement - What Does The FCC Do If You Talk On A Ham Radio Or GMRS Without A License?
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---- In this video I talk about the FCC's track-record of going after (ie; issuing a fine or putting in jail) people that talk on a ham radio without a ham radio license, talk on GMRS without a license, or talk on GMRS without a FCC Part 95E Type Accepted radio, like the Baofeng UV-5R, which violates the FCC regulations for GMRS.
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Someone who is too stupid to get a license, or simply doesn't feel like doing so. Does not belong on the Ham frequencies.
The same goes for your driver's license.
Ham is meant for experiments if you're not interested in that go to the CB frequencies.
Sad ham.
hmmmm....A kenwood Ts-990 cost around 7500 bucks. Tuning around the ham bands, the vast majority of what i am hearing is what boils down to... a radio check and a few radio nets. There is some real experimenting going on for ya. A radio check is sounding much more economical on a cb radio. LOL
Yay, we finally got a pinned comment!
I have my general ticket. About 0.0001% of amateur stations experiment. If anything is going to kill ham radio it’s this nonsense that “the only way to enjoy it is XYZ”
Don’t swear or talk politics, and don’t use it for business. Other than that knock yourself out.
Honestly it’s time to allow actual bonafide encryption on some bands too.
Or we can just pretend that the legions of men in their 80’s are learning something new about propagation that we didn’t already know.
Looks like you need a tissue...
I've been a ham operator for 20 minutes now and I can confidently say I have no idea what I'm doing
I have a 5r and a General class and no idea how to program the damn thing
❤😂 I appreciate you so much. :)
2 years and I'm in the same boat brother!
Absolutely perfect lol
You are a better person than 99% of ham radio operators then
Get a license for your dog and get a license For your bicycle Get a license to drive Get a license for your car. It's all about money that's all it is and I am not getting one.
I was thinking about using my uv-5r to talk on gmrs, but as soon as I turned it on, the FCC Tactical Response Team came through my doors & windows, drug me out of my home, then proceeded to use a thermal nuclear device to destroy my radio. I was then taken to their facility at Guantanamo Bay for questioning.
I would post a link, buy every time I try, the FCC removes it.
Ah happens to me everyday
That made me lol
Seems legit
Lol👍
Well here's the problem. The FCC expects us all to be "SELF-POLICING." But I think that people misunderstand what that means. "SELF-POLICING" means what it says... It means "police yourself." One more time: SELF-POLICING doesn't mean OTHERS-POLICING. Nay, it means "SELF-POLICING." Somehow there is a contingent of folks who clearly confuse "self" with "others," evidencing a level of psychosis that a mere radio can't heal.
“Evident a level of psychosis a mere radio can not solve”. Thank you
@@steviewonder402
Since psychosis is not a mathematical problem, but a medical condition, the term “heal” is more appropriate than “solve”. Thank you.
Unfortunately keeping your personal decisions separate from other people's personal decisions, seems to be a skill that is lacking in modern society.
My buddies uncle’s fathers next door neighbors mailman’s best friends cousin’s doctors caddies best friends girlfriend’s daddy, who’s a really smart man, got busted and jailed for everything you spoke about. The fine was so large that they lost their house and he’s been imprisoned at a secret government location and has never been seen or heard from again!
Look it up for yourself if you don’t believe me. You can also ask the deaf man because he heard about it too. 🤣
It's true.
I know the guy your speaking about
I'm blind and I believe it.
By any chance, was there an empty box of straight pins nearby?
How much for a bag of squelch? I need more for my radio.
I love your videos man seriously. You've encouraged me to get my GMRS license as well as learn more about radio in general. Really cool stuff! I really appreciate your bluntness; you really dumb it down for simple guys like me. God bless you man keep up the good work
I have never seen more intense sarcasm in a RUclips video, and I love it! I'm glad somebody finally did the research to put an end to all of those myths about FCC busts.
The fcc doesn't have the manpower to triangulate you for not having a license. Years ago we had a cb radio with a 3000 watt kicker. We lived next to a navy base and fcc got called, they showed up weeks later when the kicker was off and couldn't do a damn thing. They have to actually catch you breaking the law and like you said I really don't think they care that much.
HAM radio operators think more highly of their hobby than they ought. I spend nearly a decade as a radio DJ working both AM and FM stations. The FCC is preoccupied with commercial endeavors. They are focused on policing TV, radio, aviation, commercial dispatches, emergency services, etc. They have next to no concern for hobbiests playing on FRS, CB, and HAM. I know we all want to fancy ourselves important. During hurricane Harvey, my father in law and I got small boats and were dispatched by the local fire department to help rescue stranded senior citizens. Before we could even get to the location, FEMA road in on military vehicles and effected the rescue. All your government needs from you is your money. They don’t care what you do with your hobbies. FEMA rolled in on 5 ton trucks and didn’t even notice our presence. We were insignificant to them.
@@totallyfrozen The FCC likes to concentrate on fines for commercial broadcasters because that's where the money is. They can and do issue NAL's to hams & CB'ers for like $10,000 but they're not as likely to get that amount from a hobbyist as they are from a commercial broadcaster which the FCC can suspend their license if they don't pay.
As a licensed HAM Radio Technician for 3 years, I know for a fact that an unlicensed operator was fined $10k after bragging to a friend on air that he ripped the tags off his new mattress. Which in itself is a $10k fine.
Hey...I did that too. 😱
@@eminence_front6043 😂
Oh shit! I hope they don't come after me next, lol.
Damn, so $20k total?
Ripping mattress tags off is legal as long as you are the "consumer". That means that you must consume (eat) them as soon as you rip them off of the mattress. As long as he did that, then he's phyne.
My favorite sad ham activity is the rule guy that scolds folks for not using their call signs on a net yet blasts the repeater at 100W. (The rules state to use only enough power to get the job done) I reach the repeater w/ 5W and rule guy barges in frequently without checking if the frequency is in use and drowns out whoever is on at the time. Don’t be rule guy.
My favourite sad ham activity is monitoring the repeater with the database open so you can instantly check the license status of everyone that uses same. I never have to open a renewal notice, always someone there to remind me.
Randy, such a great guy, led me to the GMRS camp back in September, I became a ham in October and was immediately challenged by that guy, too. Not “welcome to the hobby”, “Who are you & is that the latest call sign?”🤦
My favorite sad ham is the guy that only talks about how millennials are ruining ham radio because they want to do something else with it besides talk about the weather, their medical issues, and how digital modes are cheating.
in my area, i got onto several nets using my soon to be legal name of Shadow and was advised by one ham that ham operators dont like people using “cb handles” on ham and i explained it wasnt a handle. but this same person who runs one of the local net allows one of the operators to key up and talk over people who are already talking. his power is more than enough and he knows that he over powers people when he keys up, but doesnt care, and nothing is said to him, yet im told other hams may not talk to me because they think im using a cb handle.
so yeah breaking the rules only apply to certain hams.
@@ke8mattj It still bores me to death listening on HF to hear old people talk about their antennas non stop for hours on end. Yes, an antenna is the most important piece of equipment vitial in a ham shack.. but I just can't sit and talk about it for hours..
I heard GMRS people the other day threatening to confiscate radios. I heard it in the past on the ham bands too.. Your ham ticket, or GMRS ticket does not give you any authority to seize anything.
I would have laughed if I heard that. Even the FCC doesn't confiscate radios much these days, unless it's a pirate they've busted a time or two before.
I would tell them to confiscate Dee's Nutz and then release spurious transmissions on his mom.
I'm feeling like this is the best RUclips video I've ever seen for some reason.
I had a CB in the 70’s. Now I have the unlocked Baofeng UV-S9X3 transmitting on both Ham AND GMRS frequencies. Still not a license as far as my eye can see.
- As the severe criminal I am, when do you think the FCC will confiscate my equipment, arrest me, fine me, and incarcerate me? Maybe I should wear camouflage clothing so they can’t see me…?
Great information AND entertaining, as usual you have nailed it. A number of years back I bought a pair of Midland radios for my son who was going to Boy Scout camp. They were a little pricey but the alternative was a pair of Spiderman radios and I thought that may be problematic. Discovered recently thanks to information found here that they were gmrs radios. Used them for years without a problem. I have just received a baofeng uv-9g and am wading through the procedure to get a license. All thanks to information I got here. THANK YOU!
Why get a license?
You should have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I just found your channel tonight and have watched several of your videos. I haven't laughed so hard in ages. Excellent delivery.
Thanks for the videos Randy. I have recently got my GMRS license and have learned a lot from your videos and love your sense of humor. Keep up the awesome content!
I think I saw a FCC enforcement van in my neighborhood recently.
I watched it drive by and a few of my (mostly) legal radios clacked and sputtered.
I'm pretty sure it was the FCC because it had a bunch of antennas all over it and the driver was wearing dark sunglasses.
Well, it has at least one antenna on it and the dude looked right at me like he knew I'd thought about doing really bad and dangerous things with one of my boofangz.
Well, it wasn't really an unmarked van with lots of antennas but it was a Suburu and the guy might have been carrying a badge.
I bet they were moonlighting for Amazon.
@@cbmadcow Probably were.
Ken Forgie Back in 2008 I saw something similar to what you saw. It turned out to be an evaluation of signal strength for the as yet to go on the air Digital TV broadcasting.
Holy shit, I think I saw them in my neighborhood to. I think they were looking for me. I'm gonna have to leave the country.
KF, that was a pest control company
As one of many of Randy's favorite viewers, I just have to say that Randy is one really GREAT guy, and his videos have made the utterly unbearable 2021, bearable!
BTW, this is no doubt the best video Randy has done. So much info flashing by. Han shot first.
Hey! He’s already said that I’m his favorite! He even pointed right at me!
LOL, ”Tell the world how great Randy is” and “ Believe everything you see in the media” Oh Randy you are good, love it.
I was so worried lol. Thank you, you are the man.
I've watched these videos for a few weeks now. The palm joke is what made me finally like and subscribe! Very clever and funny. Thank you for the laugh!
I know of a person, who my niece's best friend's uncle's employee, at the Best Buy who knows of a person in Miami Florida, who was arrested and sent to Gitmo for 5 years for using a Baofeng UV5R to talk to people over a repeater without a license.
Yeah! Yeah! that's the ticket!
There is a ham repeater in my area that seems to break a dozen rules per hour - yet they have been on the air for a long time. A repeater is about the easiest target possible, yet the FCC has not done so. It is hard to imagine they would use their limited resources going after a 5 watt hand held.
I know an Advanced Extra Amateur operator that's also an "OO" (Official Observer) that basically lets his "good buddies" get away with all sorts of things that would get anyone else a letter in the mail about their unsavory Amateur Radio behavior. He's a lot like the dirty cop in town; /ya know/?
yah. But I bet their are allot of Hams that would go out of their way to go after people cuz the are sad.
No one will ever say anything. No worries
@@tomslikk2130 That's dangerous.. A lot of gangs use illegal radios.. a good way to get killed or shot..
Give an example of a repeater breaking rules please
I've been a Ham Radio operator for nearly 40 years and I approve of this video. ;-)
30 here, and I agree with it.
1 here, and I approve of your approval.
Whenever I hear the FCC horror stories I can't help but think of the library cop on Seinfeld
Detective Bookman!
@@TheNotaRubicon Right. He was awesome.
This video reminded me that the movie They Live is a documentary. I know Randy saw that movie. Thanks Randy for the vid as a Constitutionalist I like your style.
No you don't understand, I have 124,000 years of experience in radio, and one time a long time ago when I was six, my uncle used the wrong frequency and the FCC sent him a phone call in the mailbox about trying to reach him about his car's extended warranty and then he died. To this day he still has not paid a penny in the fine of $400,000 that he was issued.
oh shiiiiiit
I just love how he uses "some people" like "let's go Brandon"
He is fluent in 2 languages. English and sarcasm.
"This is the best video you have ever seen" Secret message to all the "experts" out there 😂😂😂
I saw it… Thisbis by far one the best debunking channel, thanks a lot from a Venezuelan follower!
I have had a ham and GMRS license for a combined three years! I am therefore an expert. After your radio blows up and burns down your house from operating a radio without an antenna, the FCC is going to send you to the pokey. I am also a licensed attorney and I know that part 95 is serious business. On top of that I am Randy’s favorite viewer.
Don’t do that stuff.
LOL 😂
LMFAOOOO
Thanks for the tip 🤣🤣🤣
90% of the enforcement cases from the fcc is complaint driven, so unless someone "knows" for a fact that you're using a non-compliant radio on any band the fcc won't know. Congrats go out to Henk for his place on the wall of shame lol
Randy, that is an awesome wall of winking and blinking radios!
You got the compiracy theroist up in arms.
great video, your content is legit, and much appreciated
I've been a licensed ham radio operator for............ this is the best video I have ever seen........
It is
I love your common sense approach to the facts.
I feel weird. As I watched the video I felt like there were messages getting zapped into my brain. I have the sudden urge to read Catcher in the Rye and kill someone famous.
randy is the GREATEST true teller ever seen on this plattform, RUclips. THANKS FOR, UNCOVER LIARS.
I have been a amateur radio operator for the last nine years 😂. You now have my subscription thank you for the information (humor). 73.
Happy New year Randy. Hope to see more content in 2022.
Amen!
Lol…. I can’t imagine having John wick ( the boogeyman) knocking at my door just because I use the wrong radio for gmrs frequencies.
I'm not a Ham, so I dont know anything, nothing, zilch.
But that is a great sounding mic.
I still know a few hillbillies that use 400 watt kickers on 11 meter channel 38 LSB and lean back all proud of themselves that they can talk to Texas (from Arizona). When I tell him he could join in a 3 way conversation between AZ, NM and CO with 4 watts on GMRS his eyes glaze over and I know I've lost him.
Hello and thank you so much for just being down to earth on all this and indeed even being in the real world on all these subjects it was enjoyable to watching and listening to all of what you said in even blowing away these boogie man stories as well.
I have to say as to these HAMs and there boogie man stories I had a fair few laughs at this point in the way you came across in getting your point over it was great to hear.
Keep up with the great work and I do have 5 Baofeng UV-5R as well and yes they are a great radio of the buck what more could any one ask for and I have had all mine going on 6 years now as well.
Thanks once again and have a great day.
I like this guy. Hope to actually talk to someone one of these days with my newly bought UV-5R MK5 Mirkit.
I am new to radios. I like your videos. You make the information I am looking for understandable.
I also like how you address the experts.
In one of your other videos, you asked for kindness within the comments so here is mine. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your videos. Have an awsome day and please keep the videos coming. You have a new subscriber.
Randy is awesome. This is the best video I have ever seen!
These are all true facts. You are a pillar and guiding light of your community.
I’ve been a ham operator for, let’s see.. 2022-2015=. Never mind I’m not smart enough to be an “expert”.. been glancing at some of the comments left.. oh brother! Nice way to expand the hobby guys ..
has any ham operators have the urge to play dumb and go to a hamfest and act like they are a non ham operator? "what channel is that? testing one two three!!" ...moments later 2 friends show up and loudly announce they are the FCC grab the guy and all three leave with no explanation. ... ... ... ... i win
Just a quick note. HAM radio is strictly for talking about HAM radios only. Had my radios for about 10 days now, and that is all I hear.
Dear FCC, Thank you for letting me use glorious business class radios for GMRS. They don't suck like the Midland and Wouxun.
The Wouxuns actually go pretty good? Did you mean to say Baofeng?
And I wonder how many hundreds of ham repeaters use old business class Motorola radios...
They act like the fcc is waiting to see who talks to there friends while off roading who doesn’t have a license to go get them.
I have been talking through gmrs without a license for years. Lol I only use it while off roading I don’t trolll anyone
I am just investigating radio for "prepper" purposes, I live in the third world. I love your channel, I adore your humour!! Thank you.
You are awesome Randy!! Thank
I just got a ham radio and I said one word and I got my house blown up and I got thrown in a prison under a volcano
Yes, I've noticed that ham radio is chuck full of bootlickers. Most just love the top down authority of government at the top. Be Free !
Again, love your videos! Thanks!
So how about calling the Ham Karens just Harens cuz they are just a bunch of old birds that are stuck in the mud! I see a T-shirt. LOL! It might be too much of an inside joke and not for prime time I guess.
I forwarded this video to a ham guy at work and he looked like a his head was gonna explode. I could see his internal computer screening “ Dose not compute!” He spent the next few days trying to find people who got busted just to prove ya wrong. ;)
Hahah I love this video, freaking love it. I hate those ham a holes and love messing with them
I was testing antennas the other night and a couple of nice fellows broke in and very cordially offered to assist. After receiving the proffered help, one said, “By the way, I didn't get your call sign.”
“I actually don't have one,” I said, telling them I had contracted the local amateur radio club to start the laborious process to get one.
Wow. I could have made up my own call sign or borrowed someone else’s, but I'm basically an honest fellow. They both responded viscerally as though I'd been uncovered hatching a plot to overthrow the government. I couldn't blame those young fellers. They were only reacting as they had been programmed to. They informed me in a solumn manner that I really shouldn't be transmitting on that frequency because the FCC could track me down and fine me. Their words.
I didn't want to argue with them because, really, they were right. The FCC could have, but as you said, they've got other fish to fry. They both remained very pleasant, but it was clear that woah! They were expecting me to get hard time once the FCC officers, certainly now poised outside my door, burst in!
The FCC weren't behind my door. I know because I opened it and only my cat walked in. I have every intention of getting my ham license because no one will talk to you if you don't. And no one here is on GMRS! Besides, if I have a ham license, I can talk to people on GMRS. But not vice versa. Yeah, I know. Each needs a license. If I use a _GMRS call sign_ on ham, I'll be caught almost immediately, though. But if I use a _ham call sign_ on GMRS, no one will give a shit!
It all has to do with knowing your audience!
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They jumped in to police you not to help you. Ham is filled with communists that love having some kind of control over others.
I would have told them that the FCC could fine them for communicating with a non-ham station! (Which is definitely one of the rules)
I've been a Ham for 31 years and a RUclips opinion expert
You are very entertaining! I don't even give one crap about public radio, I just come here for the education and entertainment.
This is the best video I have ever seen... I also believe everything I see in the media... Oh and, Steven Seagul is just misunderstood...
Man! Let me tell you something. "This is the best video I have ever seen"
The issue with is that the FCC does not have the resources to keep up with the rule violations. Not too long ago the FCC closed down several field offices. One of which was here in Seattle. I agree with you that is not excuse to violate the rules. There's two ham repeaters in the Los Angeles area that have been violating the rules for years where nothing happens to them and they just continue on and on. Part 97 of the FCC rules and regulations prohibit the use of bad language and broadcasting music. The frequencies are 147.435 and 147.450 which can be streamed on the internet
Are they still around? I left California a while back. Last time I heard, it’s died down quite bit after that murder conviction of Henry Stange.
There's a very old lady named Ruth who comes over my local repeater sometimes, "What was that? Did somebody say something? I can't stay I'm on the phone I have to go." spoken at a snail's pace in an ancient wobbling tone. Imagine the FCC (or similar governing body) breaking down her door because she doesn't identify her station to the other 168 seniors on the system. The only problem with this mentality that the FCC can't do anything, nobody cares etc, is that you get random people on the internet acting like total assholes to noobs simply because they asked a question about regulations, so it goes both ways. I guess if everyone just remembered not to be stuck-up losers from the beginning there wouldn't really be any need for this conversation at all... Just use your common sense and don't be a jerk
Absolutely sure I don't have my license but I'm not talking on on the radio all stupid and being an idiot that's not the point and this is a hobby I just now recently within the past few months learned about and got a radio and stuff like that I don't have a license and I don't think I care to I might but I don't know yet but either way I'm not going to talk to you about your prostate and don't talk to me about what I'm talkin about how is me not having a license ruining ruining someone's life like I'm a terrorist that's going to crash all the radio stations I'm here to have fun just leave alone and I'll leave you alone simple as that
I have the knowledge and capability to talk on any HAM frequency I want too. However I’d rather stick with GMRS and have fun talking to my buddies on football night, instead of talking to nerdy old men on HAM. With that being said if all comms fail and we are in an apocalyptic state. Sad HAM operators can triangulate me to come kiss my ass when they hear me talking on HAM.
-Real man of genius
Lol great video sir and happy holidays. Someone's face is red and fire shooting out their sad 🐖 a$$ for this one 🤣
Grr though, the subliminals are getting too fast for me to catch 😭
These are some of the funniest videos on you tube. Love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent presentation! Terrific audio! Thanks.👍🏽
Yeah thats a little more! I wish i could find some pirates to listen to hahaha ! Nice clarifying video ! Its nice to know the 10 year olds in my neighborhood are safe using their little walkie talkies and wont go to the slammer :-) LOL
Randy is a great guy! Don't believe me? Go check out his older videos. Like go way back. His greatness oozes out from those old videos.
The FCC couldn't be bothered with a next door neighbor running thousands of watts out of his ham shack, shocking my sister while she talked on the phone, and annihilated radio and tv signals for blocks in all directions of the compass, and I'm supposed to believe some halfwits online that the FCC gives a rats ass about some low powered handhelds. Not a chance in hell! I also can't remember ever buying a used Ham radio that didn't already have 11 meters (C.B.) in it, along with 10 meter and the puny 12 meter band. So if having a Ham ticket is all the rage, what do the Ham's need with 11 meter?....... Just slumming I gather.
Just reading through the comments and I'm amazed at the support for lack of civil obedience and respect for others. It seems so many hate hams for following rules. They make themselves feel important by violating the rules and calling names to anyone who suggests they should follow the rules. The 100 year tradition in the amateur community has always been to follow the rules and that's not based on love of government or of rules, it is based on love of respect for others, for recognizing that, and history has proven it true, with more people on radios, across all services, every year, the way that radio can continue to work is respect for others and for their rights to use their radios within the rules and for you to use your radios within the rules. The only reason anything in my post would bother anyone, and I'm sure they will be deleted on this channel, is if those people are planning on violating the rules - rules that have the single purpose of establishing means of allowing us all to have reasonable access to the radio spectrum.
Follow the rules of civil society, and GMRS or FRS operators will only ever hear from hams about getting into the amateur hobby. Is that too much to ask? Well, apparently in 2024 society, it is.
I've been a Ham for 21 years and I just gotta tell you...
You're right.
I just ordered my 5 watt GMRS radio and antenna upgrade. This pretty much makes me an expert on radios. I officially approve of this video.
Randy again makes the sad hams very sad. We'll eventually hear about him on the HF bands from some angry, no-fun-allowed boomers saying that Randy is ruining ham radio because he endorses good radios for normal people on GMRS. Also, they'll rant about Randy not getting his ham radio license to listen to them lecture about how millennials are ruining ham radio via digital modes and their TMI medical issues.
Wait now! 😁😂 I'm a boomer and that's not me, LOL! Cynical, yes, big time. I adore these vids and probly that's why. Sad hams are nuts-true story-I actually got assaulted at a hamfest over something like this. Really. Asshole put hands on me first. Tried to strangle me. This guy's head was the size of my whole ASS. I flailed the guy with an old Motorola HT-220 in the temple as hard as I could, from my back pocket. I never carried in my back pocket so I was being watched over... happened to have it there that day only. Judge took one look at 275 lbs. 6'6 asshole and 125lb. skinny me, ruled self defense and threw the book at the guy. Lost a lot of sleep waiting for the trial though. Honest to God happened. N.J. oh... 35 years ago now.
I used my UV5R and it shut down my neighbor's pacemaker, but it hardly mattered when the aircraft I knocked out of the air crashed thru his house. Can you tell me what I did wrong?
Love the video, love your take, Love the subliminal messages.
Favorite video to date haha I have my license but think if people could have a “learners permit” for a time the hobby would be a lot better.
They used to, way back in the day (before I was ever licensed), the Novice license was basically a "learner's permit" that was only good for a year before you were expected to upgrade, and you were limited to crystal controlled radios on a few small segments of some of the ham bands. But you still had to take a test to get it.
I live in S.NJ and it's impossible to use any of the couple GMRS repeaters in my area because they are controlled by the sad hams who just had to have a GMRS license so they could be in control and not let anyone use the repeaters unless they were a sad ham also ! So I can pretty much forget being able to use a repeater unless someone else is able to put one in service in my area and line of sight GMRS communication is out of the question because of the typography of my area ! Heck I can't even talk to my family members less than a half mile away because of a hill between us ! So what I guess I'm saying is that it pretty much sucks to be me 🤣🤣👎🥺😡
That’s messed up, along the Gulf Coast ham repeaters are open, the codes are public. Unfortunately, we don’t have any GMRS repeaters in Mississippi so simplex it is…
Put up your own GMRS Repeater and you will be all set invest about 900.00 and have your own repeater find a location, easy fix.
@@thomasrogen3739 working on it. Pay as I go. I live 500 meters from an airport runaway so my repeater will b an awesome 32 ft due to the 50:1 glide slope rules even though I have 50-foot trees in my yard. Thanks Obama!
In and around Lexington, SC there was a group of bozos putting up half- a - - ed GMRS repeaters and claiming that they were to be used by members of their group, only. Whenever anyone tried to join their group they were told that their "system" was full and they could not take on any new members. Funny thing was that you rarely or never heard activity on their repeaters. I think they also had ham and business band repeaters, too.
Sadly, we hams do have some "Channel Masters" amongst us, and indeed in every profession, hobby, and human endeavour there's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I run into them even on HF occasionally. As it's a hobby, I just move up/down and try to be polite. Please I hope that this won't discourage you from Ham radio though. You can have a lot of fun with it. I would hope to meet you on the air sometime! 73 DE W8LV BILL (prepandemic W8LV/VE3)
First time ive seen your videos, and i dont know if its subliminal but i just want to tell the world how great Randy is. 😅😅😅
Good to know, but knowing my luck I would be the one guy they decide to make an example out of and throw in jail. I'll stay within the lines.
And you know what happens to guys in jail? Yeah, my neighbor used a UV5R on GMRS and has been going Number 2 in a bag ever since he got out. He said the FCC paid those guys in his cell block to do that.
I did see "this one". I love the subliminal counsel.
and even still sounding secretive yourself and also being no help when you know the government can use that to accuse people
Remain Calm...Hey, world, Randy is great.
Never get a license. I use everything without a license. Don't be scared
And here I thought the FCC called in an air strike. Disappointed ☹️
The FCC won't but the Civil Air Patrol might call for a drone strike...
I like the fact that you're NOT "SARCASTIC" at all...lol..you have good info sir.
I have been a ham radio licensee for almost 5 months now. I can smell a rule breaker from many fars away and can tell all you non-hams or, even worse, GMRS people that these two guys got what they deserved. Most especially the guy in Florida with the pirate radio station. I hope he gets yet another sternly worded letter.
Two things will get you in trouble with a pirate radio station: interfering with licenced stations, and not having an ASCAP/BMI license.
The FCC will come after you for the former, while you will be sued by the latter.
ASCAP/BMI is NOT a group to be in Dutch with!
LOL
People thinking right to broadcats is a real thing: 🎵The FCC won't let me be🎵
I liked the video. I know a lot of hams look up people's call sign , on the website , to see if it is legitimate , and what class , it is. If a General gets on an Amateur Extra band , they will politely let the General know , to stop transmitting on that band. Tim , KB0VQP.
In a world of at home or online schools, plus i live in the boonies I find the in person classes / testing a non starter. Not like drivers center thats open every day as one person commented. I'd like one but I'll probably never get one . I have equipment . I also never transmit. Very informative video. Back in the 70s base stations use to rat people out for using heat.
Always informative as well as entertaining.
Thank you and Happy New Year to you and yours
Not only is he misunderstood, Seagal's the real killer - someone should tell OJ. Best video ever!
It was nice to win something after tonight's Net. That'll teach me to key up sober :(
Happy New Year, good sir!
Randy is just great. Now you know, world.
These "experts" can all be found on radio reference.
Talk about a bunch of holier-than-thou jerks, they are there. And the moderators are the most shameless control freaks to be found, anywhere.
@@grigorirasputin5020 Agreed!
@@grigorirasputin5020 I *only* use that for the database.
Love the tee shirt
Tell world how great Randy is