Don’t be fooled. The FCC rarely tracks anybody down. They have a LARGE volunteer organization comprised of extremely grouchy, old, mostly retired, very SMART men ... all amateur licensees... with time on their hands, and all the required gear to hunt you down and positively ID you. They’ll quite gladly do all the “leg work” for the FCC, and by the time the FCC shows up at your door to a Deputy Sheriff, there’s not a whole lot to discuss.
ROFL! Name three of those extremely grouchy, old, mostly retired, very SMART men who'll take the time and incur their own expense to track someone down.
Go ahead. I'll wait.
There is a huge difference between tracking down someone with a CB (easy enough to do) vs. a Ham with VHF/UHF/HF capabilities. I know this because I'm a Ham.
Absent tracking stations that can triangulate into a general area, it's an extremely difficult task -- especially for HF. Skywave is so different from groundwave it'd take me all day to explain it.
I can be S9+40 into Italy on 40m while a friend less than 20 miles away cannot hear me.
I can be Full Quieting/Full Scale on 2m FM all the way up to Milwaukee, more than 120 miles from my home on any given day making it equally as difficult to find me. And then just like that *POOF* I'm off the air and undetectable.
Those extremely grouchy, old, mostly retired, very SMART men ... all amateur licensees would rather change frequency to continue their ragchew than hunt anyone down.
Only IDIOTS stay on frequency wasting their time yelling and screaming at someone to "shut up" or "get off the air" much to the abuser's amusement.