FCC Laws You Have Probably Broken! FCC Rules For CB Radio, GMRS & FRS That Nobody Told You About

Hello and welcome to another edition of YouTube posing as a lawyer with today's special guest, a completely random and anonymous idiot in the comments section. Now let me start by saying I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a YouTube bum who purely makes videos. For entertainment purposes don't take anything I say as legal advice, as everyone knows if you want real legal advice read the comments section, that's where the real experts are and I'm not referring to any comments you've left , you are my favorite viewer in this. video I'm going to talk about some of the FCC

laws

and

rules

surrounding personal

radio

communications, i.e.

gmrs

frs cb

radio

, mostly things you

probably

didn't know and can't do.

I'm also going to talk about what will happen when you break up. I will talk about these

laws

about a very important topic. I've seen a lot of people talk about it on YouTube and that is if you

have

a

gmrs

license that gives the FCC the authority to break down your door at two in the morning to inspect your weapons uh radios without a warrant now this video It will be mainly me reading my notes the laws the

rules

I will try to keep it short and direct because I know how valuable your time is to you, I would never waste your time like those other YouTubers do.

I'm not going to make a fancy, stupid intro with music and graphics. I won't waste your time like that. All of these rules are taken directly from the electronic code of federal regulations. website these are straight from the horse's mouth the horse being the fcc or the federal government all these rules apply to personal radio communications frs gmrs mers i don't know why we bother talking about mers and cb radio every time I make a video about mers three people leave a comment saying mers is the best thing in the world, but I

have

some mers radios on the way.

We'll do a review of a couple of mers radios and see if that's true. All these rules mainly apply to gmrs. and FRS, but there is some bleeding with MERS and CB radio, so the first one you

probably

already know to broadcast on GMRS frequencies must have a GMRS license. The gmrs license is like a fishing license, there is no test, you just pay the FCC to use it. our free airwaves, some people say it's actually a test to hack your way through the FCC website, which many people say is the worst built website in the world.

If you don't have your gmrs license yet, there is a link below to my website with step by step instructions. step by step instructions how to pay for your gmrs license the next rule is that you can only transmit on gmrs or frs frequencies with an fcc certified gmrs or frs radio the baofeng uv5r is not certified by the fcc for use on gmrs or frs you can listen to gmrs or frs or ham or whatever you want with this radio but according to the fcc you are breaking the law if you broadcast on gmrs or frs or mers with a non certified gmr radio if you buy a radio and it is certified and then the fcc decides to decertify it you can still continue to use that radio when using gmrs you must identify yourself with your call sign gmrs at the end of each transmission or at least once every 15 minutes you must do so in english only in english or in morse code now One thing you may have heard of.

I've read a lot about this on Reddit and other YouTube videos. It's that when you apply for your gmrs license, you give the FCC permission to enter your home at any time, any day. the door if necessary to inspect your equipment, so let's see what the rules actually say. I don't want to be wrong, so I'll look down and read it because I don't want to be misquoted by completely random people. and anonymous idiot in the comments section, so this is what the rule says, if an authorized representative of the FCC requests to inspect any station in the personal radio services, the station operator or licensee must put the station and any applicable records available for inspection.

I'm not a lawyer, I interpret this to mean that if the FCC sends me a letter or calls me on the phone or knocks on my door and asks for requests to inspect my station, I will be happy to take it to the front porch and allow them to inspect it. nowhere does it say or not, where do I interpret this as you telling the FCC representative that by the way they are not sworn police officers, they do not carry weapons, as far as I know, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure no? That doesn't mean they can knock down your door at two in the morning without a warrant and go through all your things looking for a radio to inspect.

I don't take that to give the FCC the authority to knock down your door at all hours. break into your house to inspect your equipment now some other things you can't do that you probably didn't know if you are acting as a representative of a foreign government you can't broadcast on gmrs frs mers or cb radio you can't use gmrs frs cb or mers if it is transmitting from a boat that is not registered when transmitting on gmrs you cannot encrypt your transmissions you cannot encrypt them so other people don't know what you are saying you also cannot hide what you are saying you are saying it by using keywords so You can't say something like the eagle has landed, which means the person you're stalking just got to wherever they were going or that the package is in motion when the person you're stalking is walking away.

You can't hide what you're saying in any way that would be breaking the law, but you can use 10 codes 10 4 10 9 my favorite 10 100. You can't stream music You can't whistle No whistle Did you know you can't? whistle on your radio no advertisements or offers for goods or political candidates digital data on gmrs this refers only to gmrs can only transmit location information or a short text message and that transmission cannot be automatic and must not exceed one second in duration and no more than once every 30 seconds or you will be breaking the law. You cannot use your radio to do anything that violates other laws, for example, using your radio to coordinate the assault on the White House.

Do not do that. Is it a bad idea. against the law you cannot interfere you cannot intentionally interfere with another person trying to talk on the radio at the same time if you interfere with them that means just activate and transmit when they are trying to talk because it is funny against the law you can not use obscene words or language or indecent cannot transmit false or misleading communication in other words you cannot lie when speaking on your gmrs or frs radio you cannot transmit false distress signals or falsely ask for help you cannot use the word May Day unless you are on a boat or in a plane and you really need help or emergency assistance.

Don't say May Day. I can say it on YouTube. No, I'm not going to say it on the radio. Here is another one that is very moving. There is controversy with the experts now, this is the uh gmrs radio. It cannot connect to the public switched network, which means the telephone system cannot connect to a telephone. Typically you would do this or maybe you want to do this if you have two repeaters and you want to connect them together you can't connect them using a phone you can you can connect those two repeaters or two radios whatever using the internet the internet is not the public switched network public switched network means phone internet means porn are not the same as I don't know, what happens if you use a modem to connect to the Internet?

In the old days you used a modem to connect to Aol and download your porn, so I don't know if you're using a modem to connect. Internet to connect your radios is what allows one to be above my pay grade. I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. We will have to wait for the anonymous lawyers and bodybuilding doctors to leave a comment and clarify for us. that one you can connect through a phone to remotely control your radio, so you can use a phone or the public switching network to turn your radio on and off or change channels to control it remotely, you just can't use that network public switched to radio broadcasting and finally, the last law that you probably didn't know about is that if your child is using your radio, he is not responsible for anything he does, so all his mistakes are responsible for all his mistakes, So what happens when you break the rules now I've seen.

I have talked about this many times in many videos over and over again. I've seen comments on Reddit and other YouTube videos, Facebook and websites and almost everywhere comments from certain groups of people. I'm not going to say who, because that says that if you break any of those rules, if you use a non-certified rate radio to broadcast on gmrs, for example, you will go to jail and be fined ten thousand dollars. Park rangers are issuing fines. looking for uv 5rs just ridiculous things that people have posted so let's clarify that I'm reading now because again I don't want to be wrong and be corrected by some random jurist who is completely anonymous in the comments section, this is what the FCC does. says that if it appears to the FCC that the operator of a personal radio service station has violated communications law or FCC rules, the FCC may send that operator an official notice of the apparent violation.

They will send you a letter upon receipt of said official. notice that the violating operator violates the law, the operator must respond in writing to the FCC office that sent the letter within the time period indicated in the letter and comply with all instructions in the notice regarding the response so that you receive a bad letter accusing you of breaking the rules so that you receive a bad letter, but what are the actual sanctions? Here's what will happen if the FCC finds that the personal radio service station operator is using a personal radio service station in a way that violates one or more sections of the communications law or FCC rules. , the fcc can order the operator to cease and desist another letter asking you to stop doing so, stop breaking the law, so you will receive a warning letter that you must respond to and/or you will receive another, meaner letter that says Please , stop when you ignore those two letters if a federal court finds that a personal radio service station backs off because many people have stated online that the FCC issues subpoenas directly, issues fines directly, handcuffs you directly and takes you to jail. how it works at least not in accordance with federal laws and regulations.

I'll put a link. Did I say I was going to link to this so you can read it yourself? Don't take my word for it. I'm just a little bit. youtube bum reading words i will put a link so you can read all of this yourself from the federal electronic code of federal regulations federal website where would you be if a federal court finds that a personal radio service station operator did it intentionally and knowingly? do this on purpose, not accidentally, not once in your off-road group, intentionally and knowingly violated any provision of the communications law, that operator may be fined up to ten thousand dollars or imprisoned or for a period not exceeding one year or both, so if you ignore the letters, if you continue doing what the FCC has politely asked you to stop doing and then ignore what they tell you to stop doing, then you go to court and then if you are declared guilty, you get the axis now from the FCC as required by law or Congress or someone requires them to inform us publicly every time this happens, there is a database that they maintain with all the citations and violations and as I have said many times before no one has ever been cited or gotten in trouble for simply broadcasting on a uv-5r now i said this because you know a lot of people don't like this radio certain groups of people make up lies saying you'll go to jail if you use this radio I don't I don't know why they focus on this radio.

I don't know what's in his psyche. What happens to them that makes them do this? Don't know. I don't mind. It's funny, but I've never had anyone get in trouble for just I'm using one of these radios now, every time I say some random, anonymous idiot will leave comments saying, "Well, some guy committed a murder and he was talking to his friend on the uv-5r, so he got in trouble for using the uv-5r or them." They were using UV-5RS in addition to other radios when they stormed the White House or committed some terrorist act.

I know it's complicated to understand, but that's not the same as using a uv5r with your off-road group to communicate with each other, so they didn't get in trouble for using a uv5r, they got in trouble for doing atrocious things and They just happened to be using a uv5r or other legal radios to break the law, so that's different. I know it's hard for some people to understand apparently now. an example in a previous video someone linked when i said no one got in trouble for using a uv 5r, someone posted a link to the fcc website where a guy got in trouble, he wasn't using a uv-5r, Yeah.

He ran a pirate radio station from his kitchen for 10 years and he got a mean letter from the FCC that he ignored and then he got another mean letter that said you have to stop, it was the cease and desist letter that he ignored and there were several years ago in 2017 stillis operating his pirate radio station nothing has happened now I'm not advocating suggesting or implying that you break any of these rules I've said it many times I'm going to say it again I'm not advocating breaking the rules the rules are what separates us from the savages We beasts need rules to maintain a civil civilization so don't break the rules now I've gone over these rules that you didn't know so you can be sure not to break the rules I said at the beginning this would be short and to the point and I don't know I probably failed in that.

If you have any questions, leave a comment below. If I'm wrong about something, feel free to correct me, but you'd better include a source explaining how and why I was wrong because I was basically reading all of this directly from the FCC. I may have misinterpreted it. Keep in mind that the comments know this. -everything comments on your opinion, no one cares about the music or the background color or how long my hair is, no one cares about your opinion, especially me, 10 page comments explaining radio theory and law constitutional, everything we consider and what normal people call comments, will be pinned at the top for everyone to enjoy.

One thing I don't mention often is once your comment no, not your comment, you're my favorite viewer once a stupid comment gets pinned to the top, the author. from that comment you don't have the opportunity to respond to defend yourself, it's never her, it's always him and they almost always say that I've been a ham for years, but not always, once that comment is fixed, the opportunity to respond and defend yourself now doesn't exist, so you have a chance, so don't screw it up. If you have questions, leave them below. I will do my best to respond.

If I can't answer, someone else will come and we'll try to Answer It and they'll probably get it wrong, so keep that in mind. Thanks for watching. We hope to see you.