FCC modifies rules for Citizens Band, FRS, etc.

WELL I AINT NEVER... WHAT ARE YOU INSINUATING SIR !!!

 

There's always going to be a few a-holes in any game that bend the rules to their liking. Even more so since Uncle Charlie for the most part threw in the towel. Maybe you wern't trained, but I was to use the minimal amount of power to make the contact. But I am well aware that there are some amateurs who keep the amp cranked at max to talk to a station that could have been done on less than 100 watts.

 

Yeah I hear you, my elmer was old school, 10 watter guy who thought 100 watts was really unreasonable to make a contact.

I had one situation this morning with two guys talking close by pushing legal limit at both locations.

I talk to a guy in Alabama in the morning on Saturdays, it is regular conversation which lasts about an hour. BUT this morning 30 minutes into it I got some clown with ESSB just ripping my receive apart - 50 over 9. I qsy over to where they were, 10kcs up and tried to get in between their key downs, even with the legal limit running, I couldn't. So I plotted where they were, they were over 10 miles away to the east of me, and they are three miles away from each other.

So I got into the RV (it has the kw mobile amp in it for field day) to see if I could get their attention, I got to the first QTH and he has a huge tower with I think a HUGE EAttenna on the top of it, pointing in the direction of the other guy, I went over to the other guy's house and he had a spider directional I think he had it pointed to the other guy.

I got right in the middle of them, tried with 100 watts to get a break and had to kick it up to to nearly a full KW to get their attention, and finally did. I asked them nicely to narrow the bandwidth and they both agreed. Then I asked them how much power are they running, they both said 1500 watts.

Amazing, just amazing.

I used to live in between two good old boys from Georgia, each of them had Moonrakers (I think 6s) on a tower, browning GEs and 500 watt linear that a friend of mine built for them (I still tell him every time I see him how he ruined my CB life because of that).

Come Saturday night around 6, they would turn the beams towards on another, get their six packs and southern comfort out, turn on the linear then drink and talk for 8 to 10 hours non-stop to each other with an occasional mobile greeting them. Me, I could hear them come through my clock radio.

This went on for years, until one of them beat the neighbor's kid for messing with his daughter which he went to jail for 8 years and the other got into a motorcycle accident while he was stoned out of his mind and ended up not being all there.

I enjoyed the CB again.

 

Wow Ridgeline that's nuts. I can't understand why anyone with a beam on a tower NEEDS power to talk short distances, other than they must not have a clue about what a beam antenna is for.

 

Talking skip is now LEGAL!!!

 

There used to be a diner on I-75 somewhere in Kentucky that had a really high antenna and you could hear them for quite a distance advertising their food.

If I recall correctly you could hear them for a good 30 miles or more. I haven't heard them in 15 years. I was told they didn't run an amp., just had a really high antenna.

 

I'll make sure I let everyone on channel 38 LSB know.

 

In other words the National Command Authority will eventually build a data base composed of voice prints of anyone and everyone who has used the radios into the future. You would be probably close to identifying indivduals on demand with such files if you have a couple of data centers large enough and fast enough to store and respond to enforcement warrants for such voice data for matching purposes.

So much for the "Hey baby wanta company?" (Not that I worry about that part...)

 

I don't know what post you were replying to, but the FBI has been working on technology to identify people by their voice and to keep a database of peoples voice prints.

The technology has already been used for decades on a small scale ie: they will compare voice prints of known suspects who have called 911 for fake bomb threats and other threats, but they've had to have a suspect to compare the voice to.

That's how fingerprints started out, before they computerized them, the police would have to compare prints at a crime scene to particular suspects. As recently as the 60's the NYPD would hire people and use cadets to just sit there for hours with magnifying glasses comparing finger prints.

Oddly enough, even though the prints are all computerized now, it is possible for someone to be misidentified as having the same prints.

That happened a few years ago with the terrorist bombing at a train station in Spain. Interpol found a fingerprint and the suspect it belonged to. The FBI embarrassingly also found a completely different person the same print "belonged" to. The FBI was wrong.

That's why if you're ever arrested for a crime you didn't commit, but were positively id'd by your print, you better know about how American police and cops everywhere else compare fingerprints.

When the FBI came out with facial recognition technology, used at sporting events to find fugitives and terrorists, they also "ramped up" the voice recognition on a much larger scale.

They also have something called touch-DNA, so if you ever touch anyone or anything, they can find as little as 1 skin cell to test whose DNA it is. In the 80's they needed a lot of DNA, but every few years they got so they needed smaller and smaller samples, now they just need 1 skin cell.

The FBI under former Director Freeh has been getting sneakier in how they get info. on people. Am I the only one whose suspicious about that new service advertised on tv where you can send in your DNA and they'll predict your future health??? Anyone who else think that's the FBI setting up a trap like they did in the 90's with those anonymous re-e-mailers where you could mask your true identity?

FBI Director Freeh admitted before Congress that those anonymous e-mail company's were set up by and owned by the FBI as a sneaky way to catch people sending illegal threats to people using anonymous e-mails. License plate readers on telephone poles recording everybody's license plates as well as those "sting ray" cell towers set up by the cops to identify every cell phone in the vicinity were all ideas of former FBI Director Freeh.

He's also the one who convinced congress to mandate that every cell phone be gps equipped so the FBI can find you. He also got it so the microphone and camera on all cell phones can be remotely activated w/o you knowing they're listening and watching you through your cell phone.

The only way to know they're listening is if your cell battery starts running down faster than normal or you use an electronic device that shows whether a signal is being sent out from your phone.

 

Crap you are thinking the FBI has all of this stuff going on, but they are so far behind the 20 something Intel agencies that been doing this for almost a decade.