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FCC issues Enforcement Advisory
Issued On: Aug 8, 2017 Document Numbers DA/FCC: DA-17-747 Enforcement Bureau Reminds Civil Aviation Community That Use Of A Certain Aviation Frequency Is Restricted To Emergency Use. The FAA's ability to monitor aviation channel 121.500 MHz for emergencies is being impaired by increased use of 121.500 MHz for non-emergency communications. The FCC will aggressively enforce the rules related to aviation radio operations. (www.fcc.gov) المزيد...
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I had no idea this was an issue. Are there people out there utilizing 121.5 for conversations or something?
Me neither. I always monitor 121.5 in my Dakota and only hear the occasional ATC advising a freq for an airline not on or the GAURD yell when someone accidental keys the mic. Never heard chatter or conversations.
Two thoughts, kids with hand held radios looking for a clear channel or some idiot using the channel to advertise...."hey pilots, come on over to Acme Field for $2 a gallon avgas and free lunch with 40 gallon purchase".
It all gets laid right on the doorstep of the FCC themselves, who have never required a license to purchase communications equipment, only to operate it. Now the marketplace is getting flooded with cheap Chinese radios, some capable of operation in bands and on frequencies they aren't even certificated for, and you wind up with a bunch of idiots whose only knowledge of radios comes from CB or ERS band radios and now you have a problem. These yahoos crowd up their authorized bands with garbage like advertisements; playing music; cussing a blue streak; etc.; and go looking for other "free" areas they can use. From CB they went to FRS/GMRS, then to the marine frequencies, now they're into the aviation bands. Of course, enforcement by the FCC is an utter joke. They simply do not have the budget, manpower, or equipment resources to do much more than jump from one hot spot to another. Like trying to put out a forest fire with a couple of guys with water buckets.
And it's only going to get worse as more and more the FCC is leaning towards "license by rule", where there's no actual license issued to an individual. Instead, so long as you're using the correct equipment in the correct manner on the correct frequencies then you're allowed to operate, stray outside of that and you're in violation. CB has been this way for decades now, and look at what a sewer that service has become.
It is long past due the time when an actual license should be required to purchase a transmitter capable of operation on frequencies for which a license is required, and we need to stop the flood of cheap radios from China and other countries that are capable of transmitting on frequencies for with they are not certificated. Additionally, we need to give the FCC the resources and manpower required to actually properly police the airwaves.
And it's only going to get worse as more and more the FCC is leaning towards "license by rule", where there's no actual license issued to an individual. Instead, so long as you're using the correct equipment in the correct manner on the correct frequencies then you're allowed to operate, stray outside of that and you're in violation. CB has been this way for decades now, and look at what a sewer that service has become.
It is long past due the time when an actual license should be required to purchase a transmitter capable of operation on frequencies for which a license is required, and we need to stop the flood of cheap radios from China and other countries that are capable of transmitting on frequencies for with they are not certificated. Additionally, we need to give the FCC the resources and manpower required to actually properly police the airwaves.
ERS = FRS
(I'm not a touch typist and I wear down key caps to the point the letters start to wear off - wore the bottom of the E key off)
(I'm not a touch typist and I wear down key caps to the point the letters start to wear off - wore the bottom of the E key off)
