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FCC Reminds Licensee That All Amateur Frequencies Are Shared:
FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth has reminded a New
Jersey radio amateur that all frequencies in the Amateur Service are
shared. Hollingsworth included the advice in a Warning Notice to Irwin L.
Richardt, W2VJZ, in response to complaints from other 75-meter AM
operators. Hollingsworth in July asked Richardt to respond to a complaint
alleging, among other things, that Richardt would not relinquish the "AM
window" (3885 kHz) or let others use the frequency unless he was included
in the conversation. Hollingsworth called Richardt's response to the
complaint "unacceptable."
"We have reviewed your response as well as tape recordings submitted with
the complaint," Hollingsworth said in the October 22 Warning Notice. He
told Richardt that it was "absolutely irrelevant" under the Amateur
Service rules how long he had been licensed or how many hours a day he
spent monitoring or using the frequency.
"None of that makes a frequency 'your frequency,'" Hollingsworth said,
adding that all amateur licensees have the same rights to any given
frequency as Richardt does.
The primary complainant has alleged that Richardt exhibits "eccentric" and
"offensive" behavior on the air, occasionally leaving his AM transmitter
keyed while he does other tasks around his house. Another radio amateur
said W2VJZ continues to attempt to contact him even though he's made it
clear he doesn't wish to speak with Richardt.
Referring to his ham station as "my electronic printing press," Richardt
asserted in his July 28 response to the FCC that he's been "a victim of
vicious radio jamming for well over one quarter of a century." He also
claimed to have once discovered a "jamming transmitter" hidden in nearby
woods. In addition, Richardt accused another station of transmitting
"filthy lies and language" when he (Richardt) was in QSO with his friends
in July.
Hollingsworth said if incidents "such as those outlined in the complaint"
recur, the FCC will initiate enforcement actions that could include fines,
license revocation or both.
Source:
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 23, No. 46
November 19, 2004
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by K4RAF on November 20, 2004
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When is the FCC going to remind everyone that 2KHz from existing SSB QSOs simply isn't acceptable?
Sharp ops use +/-3KHz & don't tell someone to "buy a new radio" !!!
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by WA1MIU on November 20, 2004
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It's about time somebody, especially the FCC put a lid on this guy. His "on the air" behavior is atrocious, and is giving other AMers trying to use 3885 much unneeded grief. My hat is off to Riley Hollingsworth for setting this amateur straight. In my opinion it is long overdue.
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by KC9GJC on November 21, 2004
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All I can say is LOL. What a wackjob.
I hope I never hear about anyone who is a regular on this board doing this. Although I would still LOL if that did happen.
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by N6JSX on November 21, 2004
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As this article is written I cannot see the violation(s). Or is this another Riley jumping at an issue that he has not checked out like the time Riley sent advisouir letters to a few HAMs for using the alpha/brovo/charly phonetics when ID'ing - that Riley later had to retract?
This guy may be a little on the eccentric side but there is no rule that says he cannot call another HAM (even if they do not want to talk to him). As long the frequency was open when he started transmitting and he ID's evey ten minutes the frequency is his! We may not like his content but that is not a Rule violation (as per the info given in this article). What rule states he may NOT use AM mode on this band?
The FCC needs to get off their dead butts and specify modulation maximums, signal drift, etc. in the Rules or the FCC is just putting out taxs into some lawyers pocket.
So give us more meat in this article to make the case - otherwise it appears Riley may have jumped the gun - AGAIN.
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by W9WHE-II on November 22, 2004
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N6JSX says he can't see the violations. Humm...perhaps I can help:
"The primary complainant has alleged that Richardt.......occasionally leaving his AM transmitter keyed while he does other tasks around his house"
IF true, that would seem to be an attempt to exclude others from the frequency as if he "owned" it. What possible justification is there for such conduct? If he is "testing", the he should be using a dummy load. Even if he is identifying every 10, its still seems like an attempt to garner 'exclusive" use of a frequency and the exclusion of others, in violation of the "shared" nature of the amateur service.
What if 10 hams did the same thing evenly spaced over 20 or 17 meters? What if 20 hams did this? If this type of conduct is not PROMPTLY ended, we will have a slew of K1MANs. Just imagine that!
W9WHE
I say BRAVO! Its time the bulleys
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by W9WHE-II on November 22, 2004
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Its time bullys were confronted by the only authority that can yank their license.
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by N6AYJ on November 24, 2004
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As usual, Hollingsworth has his head up his ass. The gravamen of his complaint against W2VZJ was that he refused to share the frequency, but when you examine the facts more closely, you see that the other stations were the ones who refused to share. All W2VZJ was doing was asking that he be allowed to participate in the roundtable QSO after he relinquished the frequency to the other stations who wished to use it, but they refused to allow him to participate. This is the same thing that Hollingsworth did to me after K6UEY tried to prevent me from participating in the 3830 roundtable. H. issued me a warning notice, and I told him he didn't know what he was talking about. Then he dropped the warning notice, but apparently he didn't learn his lesson. Idiots like him rarely learn from their mistakes. I hope W2VZJ fights the warning notice. "Sharing" means just that! Nobody has the right to try to exclude anyone else from participating in a QSO
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by W2YEE on November 25, 2004
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Hollingsworth himself is kind of a dim bulb. Remember a few years ago he claimed that the use of phonetics was not legal for identification?
http://www.eham.net/articles/708?ehamsid=da6da2f74347032dd4b95323bbc2c74c
So I wouldn't be to confident in anything he claims.
I've known W2VJZ to be a gentleman and a good operator in the past, so I don't have much faith in this recent hatchet job by the riley bozo and those who provoked it.
Walter
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by K1YDA on November 26, 2004
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Well I guess I'll just jump on the local repeater input and transmit for a day or two id'ing every ten min just to keep it legal-according to the above bozo's
that is.
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by KE4ZHN on November 29, 2004
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I dont know the gentleman or listen to the AM window at all but one thing disturbs me about this. I wonder if Riley actually heard this happen himself? Is it another case of him taking someones word for it that this is in fact what happened? The FCC needs to monitor the bands! Warning people and threatening them with legal action based on accusations by others is not right or fair! If in fact Riley heard the alleged violations himself, thats one thing. But too many times I have heard of Riley acting based on so called "evidence" submitted by other amateurs. This is crap! Theres too many ways one could doctor up a tape or falsify a recording to incriminate someone. Until the commission monitors the bands itself the door is wide open for bogus complaints and false accusations to be slung around just by people with personal grudges.
One man cannot monitor the entire amateur spectrum by himself, this in itself is a joke! Without unbiased active monitoring of the bands, how can Riley be expected to act fairly? If the commission is that low on funds then perhaps the FCC should recruit its own certified monitoring people to do so from their homes for a modest salary. The OO program is a joke because here again your trusting laymen hams to be unbiased and fair and many of them dont even know the rules in part 97 themselves!
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by KA2FIR on December 5, 2004
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Walter,
I was told that you were a silent key in 2001. Do u have a 55' tower with a fm vertical, 2m horizontal boomer and a 15 or 20m monobander?
73,
Mike
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