[Milsurplus] "More FCC Foolishness"

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Hmm... this sounds like a case of sour grapes.
 
If we was a diligent "consulting radio engineer" he would have checked with the FCC instead of relying on advertising claims. I'd like to know the whole story and the type of radios he purchased.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:49:24 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Milsurplus] "More FCC Foolishness"

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>From an editorial in Collier's Magazine, June 22, 1946

Making up the Federal Communications Commission where we
dropped it in our last editorial on it, we would like to tell of a
letter which one of our readers has written us about this group
of bureaucrats.
The letter comes from John H. Barron, a Washington, D.C.,
consulting radio engineer. It has to do with a walkie-talkie radio
set which Mr. Barron recently bought. These sets are being sold
as Army surplus, at around $100, and are advertised by retailers,
in entire good faith, as being suitable for civilian use on
issuance of a license.
The box containing the walkie-talkie which Mr. Barron bought
carried no word about its being illegal for anyone to use the set.
He found that out later, when the FCC issued a news item to the
effect that unauthorized use of walkie-talkies subjects one to a
$10,000 fine or jail sentence or both; that the FCC is not yet
ready to issue walkie-talkie licenses... 

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