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As a ham radio operator: It is frustrating to see the FCC do stuff like this. https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceivers-capable-of-transmi

As a ham radio operator: It is frustrating to see the FCC do stuff like this. https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceivers-capable-of-transmitting-on-frequencies-that-require-40377a3722c5 https://medium.com/@lucky225/fcc-back-peddles-all-transceive... Why not just stop and think about things for a while, as opposed to running around making these executive decisions and annoying people like homebrew operators? Holy smokes. And why not go through back channels, drop some truth bombs on whoever the really big offenders are, rather than scooping up all possible babies to throw out with the bathwater? (Still, I heard from a Russian today that he'd be arrested for taking an HT to the park even just to listen to whatever's on the air. So it's all in perspective, but homebrew is huge for innovation.)

nerdponx 8y ago
Is there any legitimate reason for this rule?
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  The major part of it is about controlling what happens on the bands. Which to a degree is a useful function, because the FCC is useful as a sort of arbiter between various users of those bands. Commercial, public sector, amateur, etc. However, the recent explosion in popularity of "transmit on whatever band you please, right out of the box" radios has created a lot of opportunities for idiots to cause limited havoc on one end, and for the FCC to apparently extrapolate that to "omg unlimited havoc" on the other. We'll see how it goes, but there is clearly a lot of B&W (i.e. uneducated or just non-analytical) thinking on the matter currently.