{"id":4097,"date":"2009-01-22T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/busted-by-the-fcc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:34:32","slug":"busted-by-the-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/busted-by-the-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted&#8230; By the FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhXSFva0SMrtudWLIps2ZHGzN_H_waaHlK-mkvPKVoY5ZoyEB9uZwN6r_U181FzxHuUUlfl4_plOrN4De7DBNklK9H1WY1sM2FMmUGIXAACcf_lmeyO1wwjylTaf28DEKDghFrkGDZ1fQE\/s1600-h\/FCC+DF.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 185px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/FCCDF.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293992223268533570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I was a kid, I lived in fear that one day men in black suits from the Federal Government would appear on the front steps of our house in Congers, NY. I worried that they would discover some harmonic from my Heath HW-32A doing something awful to air traffic control comms&#8230;. or perhaps they would want to check my log book (that would have definitely resulted in jail time).<\/p>\n<p>George, K8VU, sent along this link to an article about a kid who DID get a visit from the FCC:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwonline.com\/article\/72138\">http:\/\/www.rwonline.com\/article\/72138 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Radio World site seems to have a very nice collection of articles. Thanks George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I lived in fear that one day men in black suits from the Federal Government would appear on the front steps of our house in Congers, NY. I worried that they would discover some harmonic from my Heath HW-32A doing something awful to air traffic control comms&#8230;. or perhaps they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/busted-by-the-fcc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Busted&#8230; By the FCC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}