Quote History Originally Posted By ParityError:
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That said, the chances of them inspecting a home station are very very small. Unless someone is doing something astoundingly stupid.
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This. You have to really,
really work at it to get them to come to you. You can look over the notices of violation and
notices of apparent liability for forfeiture of stations that got their attention and it's pretty clear at the individual level
you have to do absolutely bonkers levels of shitbird-ness on the air to get them involved past sending you a strongly
worded letter.
There's only few people a year who get that kind of attention, and without fail it's screwing with police/fire frequencies,
tying up a channel 24/7, transmitting on broadcast frequencies or other extreme levels of violation (e.g. running an entire cab
company on bootleg frequencies for years.)
In contrast there's a guy in CA running something on the order of 50KW ERP on CB frequencies that is very, very well known
and they've never bothered him because he doesn't do anything else illegal long enough for anyone to care, and "hams"
blaring out obscenities on certain well-known frequencies for decades with no action, that only bother other hams, same
deal, FCC barely cares enough to send a letter.