How is aiding and abetting going to help when the landlords simply don't know?
Here's a suggestion-raise the part 15 limit to 1000uv and/or make it higher and ask people to apply for a license.
You guys are going to love this last post in the comments section over there. You may want to have a look. Now is the perfect time to ask for more field strength and a part of the spectrum to be in place for Hobby Broadcasting. The last two comments Edward's is a good start and the one below that too. If that won't get people to join us and fight I don't know what else will lol.
What happened to Mr. Wheeler's "tiger teams?"
We never did find out whether these would be men in tiger suits or actual trained tigers ready to chew on pirate legs to give them characteristic stumps.
If the FCC is too busy or too poor to track down pirates, word will get around and piracy will become the latest craze.
The Micheal Stanley band said it best with their album called You Can't Fight Fashion. Hobby Radio has always been a Fashion. Progressive Rock and Classic Artists talk about hobby Radio and Pirate Radio in some of their songs too and these songs were made in the 70s and mid 70s. So with that said the FCC knows this and now is their excuse to bow out and stop giving in to every corporation who whines about little Johnny quarter mile. If there is true interference issues with that individual like Rika FM that is one thing, but just because someone is taking away your listeners like what happened to the licensed LPFM station we read about is just another cry baby wanting their piece of the pie. And the FCC is not going to play the teacher on a kids playground and say "OK boys lets play nice in your Radio sandbox now or there will be a Time Out!"
macdev, interesting you should say that. Be on the lookout for a post I will make tonight, after talking with a Spectrum Manager at Industry Canada re BETS. It turns out that there really is absolutely no UNLICENSED broadcasting in Canada, even BETS. This is not stated anywhere in the rules (in fact, the rules state that there are both CRTC and Industry Canada exemptions for BETS). However, Industry Canada now requires all broadcasters, even those using BETS, to have a Radio Station License.
Seeing as you're not supposed to use RSS210 (completely license exempt) for a broadcast undertaking, as Industry Canada puts it (i.e., anything that will be listened to by anyone other than yourself), effectively unlicensed broadcasting does not exist here.
Carl's view of Part 15 as a personal radio station really does apply here in Canada, as that's the only way to use RSS210.
More later, but I have to dash out.
It should be interesting how they'll enforce that one in Canada. So if I were to have a Decade CM-10 and lived in Canada and said "Your Rocking with The Legacy" their gonna come in to my house guns blazing. But I could play the entire Pink Floyd album Dark Side Of The Moon and my neighbors can be listening and as long as I say nothing I can broadcast right along. Interesting indeed. At least Radio Station software will separate artists at least 4 hrs apart and play different songs from different artists. So a Neighbor who knows you could call you and request songs and you play them and just say nothing. Wow. If you say "Hey Richard what are you doing want your song heard call me or text me at" into your transmitter and your fine as no one knows where Richard is. You could call out any name in your neighborhood or your yard for that matter. Now if someone in the public happens to hear it and calls you well hey its Radio. Somehow that don't sound logical.
Industry Canada operates via complaints, and does little active enforcement of their own. So if someone complained, they would investigate. And at that point they would have to determine if your intent was to broadcast to others, or just for your own personal use. If they determine the former, they could shut you down if you didn't have that Radio Station License.
I'm going to be using RSS210 certified equipment on the AM broadcast band, and the stuff I'll play over the air won't have any annoucements, or tags or jingles (although I think I'll still keep my automated song artist/title voice generation, as I want to hear what it was I was listening to). It would be difficult for anyone to make the case that I was intending to broadcast. It might be a different story if I decided to use FM (which is why I won't).
Yup the more I read this stuff the more I am thinking of AM. I just posted about rather or not you can really be heard inside a building what with the little power we do have on FM. More studies need to happen but I think we really took some sucker punches this week. Its better to find out now than to be heading to the FCC with false information and find out the hard way during that time right?