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To: P-Marlowe
IMO if a signal is non commercial and is not intended to cross state lines and does not interfere with a licensed radio station's intended frequency range, then the Feds have no jurisdiction to shut it down.

If you are arguing the Feds should have no authority here, then you just shot yourself down because this was a commercial radio station. Furthermore, if a station were to be "non commercial" (whatever that means), their signal could intrude on a commercial station's coverage area if not regulated.

If you are suggesting this makes me "non-conservative," then FU if you think you are the arbiter of what's conservative.

43 posted on 04/18/2014 11:52:12 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty; xzins
If you are suggesting this makes me "non-conservative," then FU if you think you are the arbiter of what's conservative.

I think you are a foul mouthed knee jerk statist. Must every signal in the FM frequency higher than 100 milliwatts be subject to federal regulation?

Most Pirate Radio stations are 1 to 5 watt stations that interfere with nobody and are intended to serve small neighborhoods and are run by budding teenage transmitter engineers on cheap and often with home made transmitters. They find unused frequencies and bother nobody. But if some bureaucrat 2000 miles away gets a call from someone at some giant corporation that owns 50% of the licenses for broadcasting in the US, the Feds will spend thousands of dollars tracking that 2 watt signal down to shut them down and threaten the kid with a prison term and a $10,000 fine.

If that is the America you want to live in, then you are not a Constitutional Conservative.

45 posted on 04/18/2014 12:09:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Cyber Liberty

If you are suggesting this makes me “non-conservative,” then FU if you think you are the arbiter of what’s conservative.
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Go easy on the noob, he will figure it out


67 posted on 04/18/2014 4:15:34 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had Enough Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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