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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">FCC Amateur Radio Service enforcement actions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Unlike the UK regulator Ofcom, the US FCC not only enforces Amateur Radio service regulations, they also publicize what they do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the past quarter (October-December 2012) the FCC took action in:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1 Repeater-related case <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">9 General infractions (including unauthorized operation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0 Power-line cases <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Details of these actions are published on the FCC website at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html">http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/Welcome.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the UK Ofcom stopped publishing figures about what they do, or don't do, regarding spectrum enforcement over 3 years ago. Perhaps it can be speculated the reason Ofcom stopped reporting the statistics is because they
stopped doing any enforcement ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The last statistics directly relating to Amateur Radio enforcement were issued over 5 years ago and have since been removed from the Ofcom website. They showed that in 2006/7 Ofcom just wrote a single letter to someone
who had been persistently jamming a repeater asking them to please stop doing it. There were no other Amateur Radio enforcement actions reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It appears it's not just radio amateurs who suffer from Ofcom's lack of spectrum enforcement. A recent survey of the Broadcast FM Band (87.5-108 MHz) in London showed that the capital city had 28 pirate radio stations
broadcasting on regular schedules. It is clear that the vast sums paid by commercial broadcasters for their FM licences doesn't buy them any protection from interference by pirate stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ofcom Spectrum action statistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/stats/">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/stats/</a>
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