Comments on: Hey radio pirates, think twice before you invoke emergency authorization http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2009/07/20/hey-radio-pirates-think-twice-before-you-invoke-emergency-authorization/ News, views and tough love for radio. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:51 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: diymedia http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2009/07/20/hey-radio-pirates-think-twice-before-you-invoke-emergency-authorization/comment-page-1/#comment-63 diymedia Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:42:20 +0000 http://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=372#comment-63 Amen to that. This is a dubious loophole. The only station that I know has "followed the rules," per se, is Free Radio San Diego, and that hasn't stop them from getting harrassed by the FCC (though it hasn't escalated past the occasional visit and Notice of Unlicensed Operation). During the 2002 Mosquito Fleet in Seattle, we had one of <a href="http://www.diymedia.net/feature/micro/fmfotos26.htm" rel="nofollow">these</a> on hand for every operating station, but it was more of a stopgap to get the FCC out the doorway and give us time to vamoose before the enforcement bureaucracy did its thing. Amen to that. This is a dubious loophole. The only station that I know has “followed the rules,” per se, is Free Radio San Diego, and that hasn’t stop them from getting harrassed by the FCC (though it hasn’t escalated past the occasional visit and Notice of Unlicensed Operation).

During the 2002 Mosquito Fleet in Seattle, we had one of these on hand for every operating station, but it was more of a stopgap to get the FCC out the doorway and give us time to vamoose before the enforcement bureaucracy did its thing.

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