November, 2006

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FCC Docks Travel Center for Marketing Non-Certified CBs as Amateur Gear
The FCC has fined Love's Travel Stops & Country StoresInc of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, $25,000 for violating the CommunicationsAct of 1934, as amended, by offering for sale non-certified Citizens Band (CB) transceivers. The Forfeiture Order (NoF) released September 29 recounts a history of alleged violations dating back to 2001, when the Commission issued the first of seven citations to Love's for marketing non-certified CB transceivers. All CB transmitting equipment must first receive FCC certification before it can be marketed or sold in the US.

FCC launches new Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
The FCC this week formally launched its new Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB). "The events of September 11, 2001, and last year's hurricane season underscored America's dependence on an effective national telecommunications infrastructure," the Commission said in making the announcement. "The new bureau will build on the Commission's longstanding commitment to meet the needs of public safety by promoting robust, reliable and resilient communications services in times of emergency." The PSHSB will assume some functions that had been under the umbrella of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), where the Amateur Radio Service will remain. WTB Public Safety and Critical Infrastructure Division Chief Michael J. Wilhelm, WS6BR, has assumed a role within the new bureau, however. The PSHSB is responsible for the combined public safety-related functions previously spread among other bureaus and offices. It will include Policy, Public Communications Outreach and Operations and Communications Systems Analysis divisions. The Public Communications Outreach and Operations Division will operate the FCC's Communications Center and the High Frequency Direction Finding Center. The last WTB reshuffle occurred in 2003. This latest reorganization, announced last March, was several months in the planning. Some observers had speculated that Amateur Radio would be shifted to the PSHSB, thus removing it from the WTB's market-based approach to regulation. Moving some of the WTB's current responsibilities to the new bureau could nonetheless speed up the process of moving Amateur Radio-related proceedings through the Commission.

We Get Mail - ATV
From: "Bob Delaney" <ka9uvy@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:24:51 -0500
After just seeing a guy looking for ATV activity in CT on the ATV logger I had a thought and I am curious as to know how many of you are actually active on the air with ATV? Seems like a lot of us are happy to have ATV gear and only use it for special occasions or emergency situations. Many of us seem to like to talk about it and experiment but seldom ever really use it. I like to work DX and all of the ATV around here is simplex so I am on every day calling CQ, watching for openings etc. If you are really active on ATV please take a moment and go to the ATV activity logger page at dxworld.com http://dxworld.com/atvlog.html Please type in your callsign and location and simply put (simplex) or (repeater) so that some of the other mode users will see how many people still use this mode. Who knows maybe you will meet someone that you never knew was out there. I have an idea that there won't be over 10 callsigns on the logger before midnight! Prove me wrong...Please 73, Bob KA9UVY-TV Amateur Television Station Celebrating 12 years on ATV 1994-2006
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November, 2006

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