FCC Fines Man for Not Having an Unobtainable License. The FCC stopped sending out CB licenses decades ago yet the lack of one triggered a 1. K penalty. The FCC fined a man named John Hays 1. Citizens Band radio without a license. Wait a minute.  You dont need a license for a CB radio. Well, okay, technically you do, but its not something you have to apply for. Everybody with a CB radio is automatically deemed to have one. The FCC calls this license by rule, a legal fiction that simplifies life for everybody. Including the FCC, which long ago got tired of licking stamps to send out actual licenses. But if CB licenses are automatically granted to all CBers, how could Mr. SCapital News Thursday, September 19, 2013 www. A5. K E LOW N A FOR D LI N COLN 2013 FORD FIESTA 57 mpg CD MSRP 15,549. Deans Demo. Your comparison is poor, one entails the risk of serious bodily harm and the licence to drive a car is easily obtainable. While the other there is no risk of direct. Best Editing Service. Pa Soft 1.4 Software. The amount of written content has been growing exponentially recently, and its no wonder. For students, writing is an inseparable part of. Game Extractor is a powerful tool that lets you open and manipulate the archive files used in thousands of games. Most modern games have several large files that are. Hays get in trouble for not having one The power limit for CB radios is four watts. Mr. Hays had used an illegal device, called a linear amplifier, that stepped up his transmitter power to 7. Lma Manager 2007 No Cd Patch' title='Lma Manager 2007 No Cd Patch' />When the FCC showed up at his door and explained the rules, Mr. Hays voluntarily disconnected and destroyed the device. But a few months later he was using another one, down to 7. The FCC charged Mr. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Humandriven global change is causing ongoing declines in biodiversity worldwide. In order to address these declines, decisionmakers need accurate assessments of the. Hays with operating without a license. Follow us closely here. The FCC takes the view that the license by rule regime applies only to CB radios that comply with the technical rules. Mr. Hayss overpowered radio did not comply, and therefore was not covered by license by rule. That put Mr. Hays in violation for having no license. The base fine for the offense is 1. The FCC boosted the amount to 1. Does this make sense Not to us. If Mr. Hays had applied for a license to operate at 7. CB band or even 7. For one thing, the FCC no longer gives out individual CB licenses. And even if it did, it would not knowingly license a transmitter over four watts. So Mr. Hays was fined for not doing something the FCC would not have let him do. As in an earlier case, this strikes us as fundamentally unfair. Not that Mr. Hays should necessarily walk away scot free. The FCC could properly have cited him for exceeding the power limits, or for use of unauthorized equipment, and maybe for both. These offenses carry base fines of 4,0. If the numbers are not big enough to satisfy the FCCs sense of justice, it can adjust them upwards within limits set by Congress as the circumstances of particular cases might warrant. But we think it is wrong instead to run up the fine by alleging violation of a rule as to which compliance is impossible.