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The

way

things

stand

now,

Ham

radio

has

been

shaken

to

its

foundations.

Operators

are

angry

and

confused.

The

industry

is

pulling

in

its

belt a

few

notches.

And

the

FCC (still

meditating

the

Incentive

Licensing

plan and

seemingly

unaware

that

Ham

radio

has

been

hurt badly)

has

managed

to

find

the time

to turn

its

helping

hand towards

yet

another

radio

service.

The

CB Scene.

In September

of

1966,

the

FCC

sent a

letter

to all

CB

manufacturers

expressing

the

FCC's

unhappiness

with the

CB

service.

The

letter

innocently

hoped

that

the

manufacturers

(who

have

a

$50-

million per

year

thing

going

in

CB)

"will

assuredly

agree

. . .

that . . .

a

healthy

state

of affairs"

hardly exists.

Manufacturers

were

told that

unless

things

got

better

the

FCC

might

consider

putting

a

temporary

freeze

on

new CB

licenses.

Established

with the

best

of

irttentions

and

the

worst

of planning,

the

CB

service

was

created

by the

FCC

on a

frequency

band

long

regarded

as useless

for communications

because

of the

fantastic

noises

generated

there

by industrial,

scientific,

and

medical

electronic

gadgets.

Even

Hams,

some

of

whom can turn

almost

anything

into

a

useful

communications

tool,

had precious

little

use

for it.

The

band

was "given"

to

CBers

much

as

a

useless

scrap of

meat

is

tossed

to

a

dog,

except

that

the

FCC

made

it

clear

that

the

meat could

he eaten

only

in certain

ways, and

only

without enjoyment.

The

Commission

announced

that

CB communi-

cations

could

not consist

of

"hobby

type

communications"

or "idle

chit

chat."

Biting

The Hand.

As

had

been

feared,

the

CB

operator

picked

up

on

the

CB

service

as

a great

way

to be

a "sort

of"

ham

oper-

ator,

using

CB

sets as

telephones

in a gigantic

party

-line

gossip

and

bull- throwing

festival.

This

sent

the FCC

into

apoplectic

convul-

sions

and

brought

forth

upon

the

users

a

number

of purges

which

saw

new

rules

FEBRUARY-

MARCH, 1967

added,

old

ones

strengthened,

fines

invoked,

licenses

revoked,

and

even

the

old

ogre

of

the

Federal

Trade

Commission

trotted

out

to

frighten

manufacturers.

Despite

these

efforts

some

20,000

new

license

applications

still

arrive

at

the

FCC

each

month,

and

the

present

license

records

show

about

800,000

citizens

licensed

and

using

about

2'

í- million

transceivers

( most

of

them

incorrectly,

one

can

presume).

But

what gives?

Wasn't

the

FCC

created

to

control

radio

communications

in

the

United

States

-a task

that

includes

issuing

licenses

and

making

and

enforcing

laws

in

the

public

"interest,

convenience

and

neces-

sity"?

True.

But

to enforce

those

laws

it

receives

a

grubby

little

pittance

with

which

it

must

also

run a

huge

monitoring

network

to

tune

in

on

hams,

CBers,

commercial

broadcasters,

business

-band

operators,

po-

lice,

ships,

aircraft,

and

dozens

of other

radio

stations.

Although

the

FCC

doesn't

admit

it openly,

some

officials

have privately

confessed

that

the

money

available

for enforcement

pur-

poses

simply

isn't

enough

to

adequately

foot

its

monitoring

network.

Nor

is

it

sufficient

for

the Commission

to even

attempt

to

enforce

most

of

the

rules

which

it grinds

out

in

an almost

endless

procession.

And

therein

lies the

rub.

CB

is not

only

a newcomer

to

the

family

of

radio

services,

it's

a

difficult

one

to

handle

at

best. Worse

yet,

it's considered

to

be

non-

essential

(for

the protection

of

life

or prop-

erty

or

for

informing

the

public,

that

is).

The

FCC

perhaps

feels

that

if

it can't

get

more

money,

maybe

it

would

be

better

off

with

less

radio

services

-and

guess

which is at

the

uppermost

tip

of the

totem?

It's a pity

that

the

FCC

can't

keep

some

of the

money

it takes

in on

fines

and

licenses.

CBers

alone

toss

Uncle

Sam about

$160,000

per

month

in

license

fees.

The

money

comes

into

the

FCC

alright.

but

it goes

right

out

for placement

in

the

government's

kitty

where

it is

doled

out

in support

of

European

junkets

for

VIP's,

insect

research,

and

pro-

grams

to

lull

farmers

into

not growing

wheat.

Maybe

a

little

of this

money

pumped

into anemic

FCC

veins

would give

it stomach

enough

to

carry

on in the

traditions

of the

Great

Society.

The

most

ludicrous thing

about

the

whole

CB

"dilemma"

has yet

to

be

mentioned.

For

in spite

of

all

the

FCC's

bellyaching,

nobody

would be

any

the

worse

if

CBers

were

simply

left alone

to talk

themselves

blue

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