On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:53:57 +0000, Larry wrote:

wf3h wrote in news:1191723567.937872.229660@
22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

i wonder how this is enforced. i'm willing to bet few CG watchstanders
know or care about this provision. probably if you use the GMDSS
feature on your VHF radio, if there's some kind of legal
ramifications, the FCC would get involved.



It's not enforced until someone becomes "interested in you", like most of
the rest of the laws. CG isn't, no matter what the PO2 bitching at you
on the radio says, the radio enforcement officers. The FCC is, for
civilians. FCC doesn't become "interested" until there's a complaint,
which CG would be the source of, I suppose.

After being told to **** off by a fancy boat dealer using marine VHF for
boat show comms on the dock and parking lot, I reported him to the FCC,
mostly because he ****ed me off with his "boat dealer attitude". (We
always attend boat shows in a little group wearing the jeans/t-shirts we
wear mowing the lawns, which makes us immune from most salesmen.)

FCC sent me a nice letter thanking me for my report, which I MAILED to
them, and had contact said boat dealer with an NAL (Notice of Apparent
Liability), the FCC's speeding ticket, which requires them to respond
within 30 days, IN WRITING. All FCC wants is it to stop and you to
explain that you know it was wrong and you won't do it again. That's
reasonable the first time. I doubt boat dealer told the FCC to **** off
and that he could do any damned thing he wanted with his VHF walkie, like
he did me.

Larry


Dan? Rich? Damn, why didn't we know? That could change a whole lot of
attitudes around here!