No Jamming!!

[W3WN]

In today's FCC digest are listing of not one, but two stiff fines for companies that purchase, imported, and deployed illegal cell phone jammers.

Taylor Oilfield Manufacturing Inc. of Brossard, LA got nicked for $126,000
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0409/FCC-13-46A1.pdf

And, not to be outdone, The Supply Room of Oxford, AL got nicked for $144,000
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0409/FCC-13-47A1.pdf


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[NA4BH]

Wow, the second place is about 15 miles from here.

[KG4CGC]

WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW!

[KJ3N]

WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW!

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/southpark/vertical_video/import/season_02/sp_0214_02_m4.jpg

[NQ6U]

Bob Marley said otherwise.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRbZJXjWIA

[VE7DCW]

Bob Marley said otherwise.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRbZJXjWIA

I like Bob Marley's slower acoustical version of that song.......it's a rarer find but you'll occasionally hear it in proper use on 14.313!! :mrgreen:

[kb2vxa]

Heh, once upon a time we had a bunch of jammers lousing up 2M repeaters in the NYC Metro area and just to make life interesting they expanded operations and used their modded out rigs to jam the NYPD. FATAL MISTAKE! You don't tug on Superman's cape, don't spit into the wind, don't tug the mask off that old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with New York's Nastiest. They would have welcomed NALs as opposed to getting tossed in Riker's, hell on Earth almost literally. When they weren't cussing people out and making really nasty anti-Semitic remarks they were playing Marley. Strangely it has two meanings in this context, the obvious and the word means to be having a good time, to be dancing calypso/soca.

Bob Marley and the Wailers, since Bob's death his son Ziggy took over what has to be the best reggae band in all Jamaica.

Cell jammers are illegal as they should be except when used in places of worship, theatres, restaurants and prisons where they're contraband to begin with. That would save the guards a lot of cell searching, don't mind the pun.

[K7SGJ]

In today's FCC digest are listing of not one, but two stiff fines for companies that purchase, imported, and deployed illegal cell phone jammers.

Taylor Oilfield Manufacturing Inc. of Brossard, LA got nicked for $126,000
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0409/FCC-13-46A1.pdf

And, not to be outdone, The Supply Room of Oxford, AL got nicked for $144,000
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0409/FCC-13-47A1.pdf


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Am I correct in assuming that these are stiff fines, as opposed to flaccid fines?

[W3WN]

Yes, but don't give me a hard time about it.

[VE7DCW]

Oh swell........ another "keeping erect" moment! :clap:

[N8YX]

Get back to me when the FCC busts more of the 20M jamming/UnID crowd.

[KC9SQR]

Get back to me when the FCC busts more of the 20M jamming/UnID crowd.

I think part of the problem is the "higher ups" in the government haven't realized that ACTUAL FCC enforcement could be a good revenue generator for them.. You'd think they'd jump all over that.. ESPECIALLY since the FCC doesn't get to keep the money generated from fines...

Just like the road pirates do when a new law is passed, they whip out their ticket books and start a generating that revenue... But as far as I know the cities and counties that employ the road pirates to pillage and plunder the masses get to keep the treasure. ;)

[KJ3N]

Get back to me when the FCC busts more of the 20M jamming/UnID crowd.

Sounds like you're in the wrong thread. ;)

[kb2vxa]

"... ESPECIALLY since the FCC doesn't get to keep the money generated from fines."

That's an unfortunate legal matter, being a commission it has no law enforcement power and therefore no right to keep the money, such matters are handled by the US District Court.

Across the morning sky,
Radio waves are streaming,
Ah, how can the FCC know it's time for NALs to go?
Before the court's hell fire,
We'll still be dreaming.
I do not count the fine
Who knows where the fine goes?
Who knows where the fine... goes?

"But as far as I know the cities and counties that employ the road pirates to pillage and plunder the masses get to keep the treasure."

Not just road pirates but they keep all fines except for moving violations in which a portion goes to the state. In some cases where property is confiscated and sold at auction proceeds go to the law enforcement agency that confiscated it. When it's a drug bust more often than not it goes to the Narcotics Division.

That's some terrific motivation to go out and catch the bad guys, if it were applied to the FCC I'm sure it would light a fire under the Enforcement Bureau. It's so inappropriately named since they enforce NOTHING, properly it should be called the Investigations Bureau.