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You may be arguing a different point now? Whether or not fines have been handed out would not be a reliable indicator of whether "the serious hams would report

You may be arguing a different point now? Whether or not fines have been handed out would not be a reliable indicator of whether "the serious hams would report [an issue with an FM radio station] within hours". I would expect that issues with FM stations' broadcasts would be very rare, and generally not receive a fine even if it was technically a fine-able offense. This seems like a situation where a ham would call it into the FM station and maybe into the FCC, the station would fix it, the FCC would call the station and just confirm that the station fixed it.

transcriptase 3y ago
Exactly what I was trying to get at, thanks!
windexh8er 3y ago
Not arguing a different point. If the offense was such that it would be reported then it should be acted upon in some manner. The reality is that a lot of these spurious emissions are not of any significant reason to react which was my implication with the scaremongering reference. The reality is the FCC approves these cheap Chinese devices and even when they aren't "clean" they rarely impede. Yet what you're referring to is these folks, ultimately, chasing down things that really are not consequential to the airspace however it's an all-hams-on-deck scenario to track down said offenders. Am I glad these folks are out there? For sure, but there's a fine line of being over the top that they often surpass for little reason.