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Sirius Is Going To Get Part 15ers in trouble!

You geniuses totally missed his point!

He's not RE-broadcasting anything!

He's using the Sirius receiver with BUILT-IN transmitter that allows you to listen on any FM radio. You can set it up for whatever frequency you want. His neighbors may hear his Sirius programming if they happen onto 88.1. Chances seem pretty slim to me.
 
Oscar, You're Right!

> I am NOT re-broadcasting anything! The reason I bring up this potential conflict is because I am familiar with the Part 15 rules, as I run a very clean and highly respected neighborhood Part 15 fm'r and have done so for over ten years now.

It is just strange that Stern can be fined for his objectionable program content, yet the very company that hired him "away from the FCC" has contracted with manufacturers who made it necessary that you listen to his antics on the terrestial FM broadcast frequencies! All this just through the use of an innocently purchased "Sirius Receiver" containing a Part 15 fm transmitter that links wirelessly to your car radio. The "Ipod" linking device does the same thing! (Imagine some of the objectionable lyrics programmed in those things blaring out all over the local fms!!)

As an experiment, I tuned my car radio to 88.1fm, the freq that the Sirius receivers come programmed out of the box. (I do not have a Sirius or any link in my car at all, just at home.) While travelling through the roads here on Long Island, NY during rush hour this morning, I kept my car radio on that freq. and believe it or not, aside from a local college station 10 miles away fading in and out, I caught Stern four times in ten minutes time....either from other vehicles or an "in house setup" similar to the one I have. I caught one what seemed to be an Ipod link as well. (I guess you could compare my "bunny hunt" to someone trying to find a "hotspot" link for a laptop computer.)

As people catch on to this, either accidently, or through this post (!), there could possible be some legal issues including innappropriate program content "crossbanded" to terrestial broadcast. It may even affect the Part 15 rules as we know them today. Additional opinions?
 
Re: Some comments for apco25 and anyone interested

>
> Shame , I was trying to pick up your signal from here last
> night, so you can send me a QRM card.
>
Actually, a reception report is known as a a QSL card. QRM means interference. Wait, maybe you're right... :)
 
Re: Some comments for apco25 and anyone interested

> >
> > Shame , I was trying to pick up your signal from here last
>
> > night, so you can send me a QRM card.
> >
> Actually, a reception report is known as a a QSL card. QRM
> means interference. Wait, maybe you're right... :)
>


Your right, I messed up. I was thinking different.
 
> > You have some over do-gooders on here that they think
> doing
> > something for the world that is useless for the average
> > person that they really care alot.
> > If I walk past someone's house with a rap/hip hop CD
> > blasting the audio and F'word out on the sidewalk......do
> > you think i can sue them for THAT.
> > Disturbing the public might be one thing....but the
> content
> > of it....forget it, what's the sense of talking.
> >
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand your "over do-gooders" reference.
> Pardon me if I don't and educate me. I will just say that
> most folks here are trying to help others by sharing the
> benefit of their knowledge, opinion, and experience. If you
> feel this is misdirected, then please offer your comments.
>

I feel your overdoing this on your conscience. You hear obsceneties everywhere you go, if you can sue everybody and everyword that you hear, and collect....hey, you are now my laywer.

> I do understand your comments about the boom box, etc. To
> answer your question, yes, I can sue them for listening to
> my boom box and they can sue me for playing it.
>
> Neil
>
 
>
>
> I feel your overdoing this on your conscience. You hear
> obsceneties everywhere you go, if you can sue everybody and
> everyword that you hear, and collect....hey, you are now my
> laywer.
>
Hello again,

I do not hear obscenities everywhere I go. I have not heard any today. I am sorry if your experience is different. When I said I could sue, I did not mean I will collect. You can sue anybody for anything and make a fool of yourself. Didn't you know that?

We are way off topic for this board and I am going to say thank you for your responses.

Good bye

Neil
 
> >
> >
> > I feel your overdoing this on your conscience. You hear
> > obsceneties everywhere you go, if you can sue everybody
> and
> > everyword that you hear, and collect....hey, you are now
> my
> > laywer.
> >
> Hello again,
>
> I do not hear obscenities everywhere I go. I have not heard
> any today. I am sorry if your experience is different. When
> I said I could sue, I did not mean I will collect. You can
> sue anybody for anything and make a fool of yourself.
> Didn't you know that?
>
> We are way off topic for this board and I am going to say
> thank you for your responses.
>
> Good bye
>
> Neil
>

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