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Vanilla Sky said:
California Ham Cited for Operating Unlicensed Radio Station

You know if its illegal to operate there, why is eBay allowed to let sellers sell linear amplifiers for the AM & FM band ???? I had a 25w amp so I could use my iPod with my stereo but sold it as I was afraid I'd get in trouble....


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Illegal CB amps have one purpose, to operate illegally. Those commercial amps can legally be used with the proper authorization with low power stations or as drivers in emergency back up transmitters.
 
Captain Kilowatt said:
Illegal CB amps have one purpose, to operate illegally. Those commercial amps can legally be used with the proper authorization with low power stations or as drivers in emergency back up transmitters.
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Than why was a ham fined for operating a fm linear ?

Cocaine is illegal but it should be allowed to be sold on eBay.
 
Vanilla Sky said:
Than why was a ham fined for operating a fm linear ?
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I don't see anywhere where it says he was fined for using a linear. He was broadcasting on a commercial FM radio station frequency. Its the frequency that got him in trouble.

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Watergate said:
I don't see anywhere where it says he was fined for using a linear. He was broadcasting on a commercial FM radio station frequency. Its the frequency that got him in trouble.

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Thats what I mean. He obviously was using a amp to broudcast on fm broudcast band. Again I had the same type of equipment but sold it.
 
Low power FM radio station equipment, and even high power FM radio station equipment, is legal for you or me to own. I still own my low power FM equipment.

Own as much of it as you want. Buy a 100kw amp like some of the FM stations in the south claim they run. They FCC has made no law concerning the ownership of that equipment. But they do insist you get a license to use it.

I think the only reason they have made laws concerning they sale of 11 meter equipment, is because it is an unlicensed service. Just my opinion.

The views and opinions expressed by Watergate in this post are not necessarily those of this site or anybody else for that matter. He may be completely full of shit as he is repeating what he heard 20 years ago when he purchased a low power FM station.


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Low power FM radio station equipment, and even high power FM radio station equipment, is legal for you or me to own. I still own my low power FM equipment.

Own as much of it as you want. Buy a 100kw amp like some of the FM stations in the south claim they run. They FCC has made no law concerning the ownership of that equipment. But they do insist you get a license to use it.
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That is the correct answer in a nut shell, you can buy all the FM stuff you want, but you have to have a license to run a FM station.
You can apply for and run a LPFM station, but you still need to apply for a license.

Right now I do not think the FCC is even taking applications for low power FM stations, but here is some info, and more can be found at the link at the bottom of the page.

Unlicensed Operation Is Prohibited. A very common question asked of the FCC is whether broadcasting at very low power requires a license. Please be aware that unlicensed operation of radio broadcast stations is prohibited, even at low powers such as 1 watt or less. The only unlicensed operation that is permitted on the AM and FM broadcast bands is covered under Part 15 of the FCC's rules, and is limited to a coverage radius of approximately 200 feet. (See the Commission's July 24, 1991 Public Notice.) Unlicensed operation is not permitted in the television bands (including 87.9 MHz, which falls within the 82.0 to 88.0 Channel 6 television band). Fines and/or criminal prosecution may result from illegal operation of an unlicensed station
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LPFM stations are available to noncommercial educational entities and public safety and transportation organizations, but are not available to individuals or for commercial operations. Current broadcast licensees with interests in other media (broadcast or newspapers) are not eligible to obtain LPFM stations.
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More info can be found here on LPFM radio:

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-power-fm-broadcast-radio-stations-lpfm


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Jeff
 
If someone has a link to the license application that would be great. Id love to start a Armenian radio station. Iranians have one locally on am 670
 
Vanilla Sky said:
Than why was a ham fined for operating a fm linear ?

Cocaine is illegal but it should be allowed to be sold on eBay.
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I didn't see where they said he was running anything specific as to what type of gear he was using. How do you know he was using an amp? He could very well have been using an FM exciter. I had two of them in my possession a few years ago but scrapped the tube type exciter. It ran ten watts. I just scrapped the old solid state exciter but kept the 20 watt power amp that was in it. Never know when I may want to drive it with my Ramsey Electronics FM-25B transmitter. It does make 20 watts output when using the FM-25B as an exciter. BTW I wouldn't really do that. Anyone can buy an FM exciter which is simply a self contained complete FM transmitter with between a couple watts and up to 100 watts or more, usually designed to fit into an FM transmitter cabinet and feed the power amplifiers within. On it's one it is a complete low power FM transmitter. If you have the money you can have one of your very own. Not many people want to shell out that kind of money to play around with with great risk of being caught however. On CB that is a different matter. Thousands of people are quite willing to shell out a few hundred or a couple thousand dollars for an amp and do indeed intend to use them on the air with little chance of being caught. That makes a big difference in why one is legal to sell and the other is not.
 
Vanilla Sky said:
If someone has a link to the license application that would be great. Id love to start a Armenian radio station. Iranians have one locally on am 670
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I bought my equipment at an auction for next to nothing. Paid a commercial two way communications shop to get it back into working condition, put up an antenna and started broadcasting rock and roll to the masses. Or so I thought. I broadcast over a two block radius from my home for about 3 months.

Then I looked into licensing, saw the amount of the fines for getting caught, and how often that happens when you do broadcast on a frequency that nearly everyone has equipment to receive you with, and put the equipment away.

You can't be joe public and get a LPFM license.

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Watergate said:
I bought my equipment at an auction for next to nothing. Paid a commercial two way communications shop to get it back into working condition, put up an antenna and started broadcasting rock and roll to the masses. Or so I thought. I broadcast over a two block radius from my home for about 3 months.

Then I looked into licensing, saw the amount of the fines for getting caught, and how often that happens when you do broadcast on a frequency that nearly everyone has equipment to receive you with, and put the equipment away.

You can't be joe public and get a LPFM license.

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I broadcast further with my xm radio receiver when using the FM modulator, all you have to do is have your FM receiver tune to my FM modulator frequency which is usually 88.1 and you can enjoy what I do.

They the FCC have t2o or th3 years since making this miraculous discovery barred the makers of the sirius/xm receivers to do away with this modulation mode in the receiver and now have a transmitter wire that connects to the automobile's FM receiver antenna and that is tx'd through the antenna to the FM receiver cutting down it's broadcast range significantly.

But what about my old receiver's interference>? FCC ain't got time to chase down all them receivers/transmitters to stop it.
 
There has been two people caught broadcasting on FM in the last 30 days.
One in FLA an one in CA.
One in AK using illegal CB equipment putting out interference in the aviation band.
Didn't take them long to jump on that one.
 

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