Just because there are not forfeiture orders does not mean the FCC field agents sit on their ass. There are a number of technical violations across many licens

Just because there are not forfeiture orders does not mean the FCC field agents sit on their ass. There are a number of technical violations across many licensed services that the FCC finds and organizes resolution. They don’t fine for honest mistakes and failures, only repeated willful violations. You have to be a real jerk to end up with a fine. In a most boring sense, they are usually component failures or mistakes in maintenance or operation. I have been involved in several notices from FCC field offices on technical issues in the first half of my working life, some of them pretty awful ideas and yet none of them resulted in fines when cleaned up in a reasonable amount of time. Even when an errant AT&T microwave transmitter took out the lower half of the 3 GHz band in Detroit for three weeks, the FCC stepped in, confirmed the source, found who was responsible and the interference solved. No fines, no PR, just a days work.