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Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by ridaj on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:18PM (#27706105)
It's somewhat surprising for a radio amateur group to take it upon themselves to complain to the FCC about interference to a whole bunch of infrastructure-critical systems like satellite positioning, air traffic control, etc. Sounds a bit like spectrum vigilantism to me. Or was there actual harm done to these systems? You'd hope that if it was really critical there'd be more investigations by the government vs waiting for private groups to complain.
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by wrs on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:28PM (#27706178)
Making an official complaint to the appropriate government enforcement agency is the exact opposite of “vigilantism”. Vigilantism would be hams deliberately crashing the drones with jammers, or something.
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by bombcar on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:25PM (#27706590)
Hams have done just that - famously chasing the Russian woodpecker iirc off of frequencies they wanted to use.
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by djmips on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:47AM (#27709209)
For those curious I located the relevant wiki information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar#Jamming_the_Woodpec....

There is no reference to the jamming being successful however.

Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by mnouquet on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:38PM (#27707006)
> Making an official complaint to the appropriate government enforcement agency is the exact opposite of “vigilantism”.

You're right, it's straight delation.

Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by tibbetts on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:24PM (#27706142)
This is kind of what the ARRL does. Amateur radio is supposed to be self-policing. They want to minimize FCC headaches from any kind of hobbyist radio, in order to maintain flexibility and tolerance.
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by vvanders on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:28PM (#27706176)
Not really surprising, radio only works if we all play by the rules. Even a small 5w transmitter up high enough can easily cover over 100 miles.

Most radio groups tend to be disaster recovery and communication adjacent so they care about infrastructure even if it's not directly on the ham bands.

Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by justin66 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:49PM (#27707063)
> It's somewhat surprising for a radio amateur group to take it upon themselves to complain to the FCC... Sounds a bit like spectrum vigilantism to me.

Surprising? Have you met any hams?

Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by anilakar on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:46AM (#27708858)
Someone dumps their garbage on your front yard. You hop in your car, follow them and find out that they're running a large-scale illegal garbage dumping business. You call the cops and report both crimes. Are you a "vigilante" now?
Re:FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone t... by Johnythree on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:42PM (#27706272)
To have any hope of keeping the ham frequency allocations, hams MUST be self policing and vigilant.