what happen to motor mouth maul on the cb radio

1. I've got this little radio & amp forth with radar detectors, scanners, ect. all thrown in a pile.

2. 

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3. Motor mouth maul had his station confiscated. MMM operates out of California and his station was mobile. He broadcasts on the superbowl aqueduct. For those of you who know DX land, that's channel half dozen on your dial. He could be heard world wide when atmospheric condition were ideal (propagation) and sounded just like an FM radio station DJ. The only other person other that MMM who I know had their stuff confiscated was Cadillac Man out of Laredo TX. Some of yous might call up him as the guy that would take you lot over to Mexico for a fee and bring you back. He had a station that was and then powerful he could exist heard nation wide. The right people manifestly got upset over it and the FCC got on it. Illegal AM band is currently alive and well in this land with an unabridged sub-culture operating tens of thousands of mobile stations across America. Central down or shoot outs equally they're known are held during the summertime months with bands, nutrient, prizes and lots of fun watching the competition. I run a half-dozen pill fat male child out of my rig powered solely by a DX 94 HP milky way. Radio on the road is a hobby of mine and helps pass the time during long rides. When weather condition are right i tin can skip all over America.

4. Where did y'all go this info?

   Last I checked, his 84 ft belfry cruel down (high winds?) and temporarily took him off the air, just he'southward supposedly fixed it/back on the air and running.

6. That's not quite true. A few years agone at that place was an FCC attorney who was also a ham who encouraged those who were being interferred with on the 10 Meter band to contact him. Quite a few of the hams DID, whereupon he sent out warning letters to such companies equally UPS, FedEX, Conway, and a few others. And some of the hams, pissed off about finding interlopers ON their bands, actually "trapped" truckers by driving along beside them, verifying their identification and turning the info over to FCC. Despite what some may call back, it is not as hard to do equally one might recall. Mostly, they'd simply not say a word and drive downwardly the highway. The drivers would get curious about their "odd" antennas, or the number of them, and try to talk to them on 28.085 AM.. "Hey, you there in the lilliputian Chevy with all them antennas, what are they for, etc, etc". Once the driver did that, it was easy to sort him out from all the others. The drivers usually used AM, which is non authorized on that frequency--even for the hams themselves. Then the ham would only copy the identifying I. D. of the truck and ship it to FCC. The man at FCC would then send the visitor a letter alert them that THEY were responsible for the drivers' illegal deportment and that if it didn't terminate, they'd face fines of $10,000 PER time to come occurance.

   Then, it DID happen. And with success, too. The companies normally restricted their drivers by making them remove any ILLEGAL "x Meter" radios from their trucks.

   Fast forward to today. operating on "extra" channels (and I don't empathise why people do that anyway except and unless it's because its an "ego" thing). Operating illegally IS a crap shoot; y'all might become away with it, But if you Do get defenseless, information technology suddenly becomes VERY personal since, if they actually want to, FCC tin can effect some hefty fines. And they Exercise show upwards on the FCC website from time to time. Its like speeding. For awhile, y'all might get away with it. But go along information technology up and ane mean solar day, in that location's those flashing blue lights in your mirror!

   Those frequencies that myth and legend say are "empty" really are assigned to somebody. AND often what y'all hear as some buzzing or unusual sounds IS really communications; its just in a dissimilar fashion that doesn't jibe with AM. And if your AM indicate happens to annoy someone, they volition complain to the Feds and Uh-oh! Similar the litttle gnome says in the commercial.
   "Wander wisely"

8. Someone in my hometown decided to set a basement radio station when I was in high school.

   This guy broadcasted some weird song nearly a rainbow on repeat for a few months, I know he got in a flake of a legal bind for information technology merely that was FM freqs, I call back he was running 96.nine.
   Anybody at school idea it was hilarious, I wish I knew what really happened to him legally.

   I tin't imagine the FCC really would waste resources prosecuting people over all the silly crap they probably have to deal with, I'd assume you'd get a couple firm warnings before annihilation serious happened.

9. Hello Jerry. They exercise that because when dx rolls in, all 390 MHz of the twoscore allocated CB channels tend to become a blurred mess of anybody's signals, to the bespeak of non existence able to get a bulletin across due to being lost in the mess. So they flock to "quieter" areas of the ring.

10. I've been in Riley's office before he retired. Fortunately it was a social thing, not enforcement.

11. I knew him pretty well. His habitation boondocks is nearly.....oh, 40 miles s of here.

    "They do that because when dx rolls in, all 390 MHz of the 40 allocated CB channels tend to get a blurred mess of everyone'due south signals, to the point of non being able to get a message across due to being lost in the mess. So they flock to "quieter" areas of the ring". (quote)

    Has whatsoever of the FRS and MURS services taken off with the trucking industry? With the FM placidity, they should exist able to laissez passer messages locally and talk among themselves. The LACK of "skip" would be an reward since more people tin can utilize the bachelor spectrum at the aforementioned time. IOW, they tin "cram" more people in the same amount of infinite without the paralyzing "skip" noise. I think the tendency of CB ops to "steal" spectrum from legal users is part of the reason they go so disrespected by hams who discover them up in 10 Meters on AM. I freely admit that when I hear(ed) them up in that location I would outset a CW QSO right on height of them. Sometimes it discouraged them, or caused them to cuss, but sometimes some of them had ridiculous amounts of power that I couldn't get over the top of !

    Simply, like I said, it is a crap shoot. You might feel you have a "right" to use channels outside CB, but they ARE assigned to other users despite the myth and legend that surrounds the CB hobby near "them channels are 'empty'", CBers have forty channels, hams have in 10 Meters 28.000 thru 29.700 in diverse modes. It is what it is, and one can't change the police. Only! With the relaxed testing now in place, it is so piece of cake to get the license its just non funny! True, you tin't use AM and voice modes below 28.300, but you tin can use SSB and also talk around the world when conditions are right! Its FUN, its easy, and if you'll follow the protocols and procedures historically in place, y'all can have an accented BALL on 10 Meters. Upgrade and open even more modes and possibilties!

12. The FCC seems to be pretty like shooting fish in a barrel on CB'ers. They have gone after CB shops though for selling amplifiers that operate on eleven meters (CB).

    If you get an SSB CB you lot can hear cb'ers illegally talking all over Due north America, Europe, Africa illegally. CB'ers even using SSB are prohibited from transmitting more than than 150 miles, but do it all day long.

    They go after others though with fines in the tens of thousands of dollars (usually for ignoring FCC warnings). They go after Hams, ability co'.s, and fifty-fifty police departments if they create spurious emissons. The FCC has even issued hefty fines against people whose fish tank calorie-free sends out radio signals interfering with hams.

    Ham radio operators take volunteers sanctioned by the FCC to hunt violators down. A few years ago, Indianapolis Narco Detectives were tired of drug dealers listening to their digital radios, so they went out and bought ham radio walkie talkies which have adjustable transmitting power. Usually 1/2 watt, iii watts, & 5 or 7 watts. The cops were using them on the lowest wattage possible, on some obscure frequency that hams never employ ... at dark!

    In that location are literally thousands of frequencies they can choose from.

    But in that location was some quondam guy scanning all the freq's. in that band, he heard them and contacted his Ham buddies. The next dark they got together with their radio point direction finders and tracked these guys downwards.

    When they defenseless these guys, they were surprised to find they were narco detectives and agreed not to report them to the FCC. Later, 1 Ham changed his mind and reported them.

    The FCC shut them down inside days and the cops were disciplined by their dept.. The FCC went later the Michigan State Police once considering they were interfering with the Ham band due to faulty equipment. The FCC has fined ability companies considering the ability lines were interfering with television receiver channels on ppls tv's.

    The ARRL.org website has a monthly list of FCC enforcement deportment you tin can look up and see what kinds of fines ppl get.

13. If anybody has been through Westward Memphis you've heard the dopers on there selling, green fume, white fume, party favors, high speed chicken feed. Everybody says information technology is the cops. A local told me, one of them was a cop and the other a doper. I can't figure out why if it is real dopers, that they don't bust them. It has been going on for at least 20 years that I know of. So, I've concluded it probably is the cops. Notwithstanding, what they are doing seems like entrapment. So I figure they are just hitting them with a big fine and turning them loose. Information technology is a "cash cow" and then to speak. So why does the FCC allow it? You can't communicate for the "advertisers" there! Advertising over the airwaves is illegal, or it used to be. The truck wash and cb shops are bad enough and then yous throw in the cops (?) and it becomes impossible to communicate in that area. I wonder if anybody has ever filed a complaint to the FCC on that mess?? It seems to me it wouldn't require much of an endeavor on their function to put a terminate to it.......and nevertheless they never have.

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