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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Boas João Costa,<br>
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Excelente noticia acho que devia de ser mostrada à ANACOM para ela
saber como actuar, principalmente a parte da FCC<br>
se a ANACOM e todas as autoridades de comunicações de todos os
países actuassem assim acho que o nosso hobby se tornava <br>
muito melhor isento de interferências e de desordeiros.<br>
<br>
Vy 73 de<br>
Paulo Santos, CT4DK<br>
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Em 11/01/2013 12:16, João Gonçalves Costa escreveu:<br>
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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:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a
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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
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href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/stats/">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/stats/</a>
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