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04/12/2012 | Amateurs Must Protect New Radars in 23 cm Band
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is deploying a new generation of Common Air Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR) that has some implications for the use of the 1240-1300 MHz (23 cm) band by amateurs. The Amateur Service allocation in this band is on
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01/06/2012 | Radio Amateurs Not Affected by Narrowbanding Requirements
The FCC released a Public Notice on January 6, reminding land mobile licensees, frequency coordinators and equipment manufacturers that they have less than one year to transition to narrowband operations in the 150-174 and 421-512 MHz bands. While the lat
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07/14/2011 | ReconRobotics Pays $17,500 to End FCC Investigation of Rules Violations
On Wednesday, July 13, the FCC announced that its Enforcement Bureau and ReconRobotics have entered into a Consent Decree. This resolves an FCC investigation in response to a complaint filed by the ARRL. In 2010, the ARRL alleged that ReconRobotics had vi
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03/30/2011 | Revised Spread Spectrum Rules to Go Into Effect April 29, 2011
New spread spectrum rules go into effect April 29, 2011
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01/06/2011 | FCC Cites Retailer for Marketing Amateur Radios as CB Radios
In October 2010, an agent from the FCC’s Enforcement Office visited Monroe, Michigan-based Doctor Radio’s CB Shop to find that the store was selling, among other items, a radio that was described as “an Amateur Radio that could operate on CB frequencies”
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12/29/2010 | ARRL Shows IBEC BPL Systems Are Interfering, Violating FCC Rules
On December 29, 2010, ARRL filed a BPL-related complaint with the FCC regarding systems installed in three states by IBEC.
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11/01/2010 | US Charges K1MAN with Failure to Pay Fine
K1MAN has been charged in federal district court with failure to pay a $21,000 fine
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03/25/2010 | ARRL Executive Committee Examines Proposed Vanity Call Sign Changes, Legislative, Regulatory Issues, More
The ARRL Executive Committee (EC) held its first 2010 meeting Saturday, March 13 in Denver. The EC worked through a lengthy agenda that for the first time had been shared in advance with ARRL members -- the result of an ARRL Board action at its January me
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