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SkipSanders
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FCC having fun busting electronics retailers

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Latest FCC time user: Running around to all the stores selling TV's and issuing citations if they don't have the required warning labels on TV's that don't have digital tuners conspicuously posted.

A recent list of stores cited:

06-08-2007 CITATION Sears Tukwila, WA
06-08-2007 CITATION RadioShack # 01-3399 Tukwila, WA
06-08-2007 CITATION RadioShack Store # 2216 Burlington, NJ
06-08-2007 CITATION Fry's Electronics Store - Concord Concord, CA
06-08-2007 CITATION Costco Home Kirkland, WA
06-08-2007 CITATION Circuit City, Store 3336 Tukwila, WA
06-07-2007 CITATION Wal-Mart Store #2151 Sunrise, FL
06-07-2007 CITATION Target Store # 1135 Langhorne, Pennsylvania
06-07-2007 CITATION Target - Mission Valley San Diego, CA
06-07-2007 CITATION Fry's Electronics Store - Fremont Fremont, CA
06-07-2007 CITATION Copperfield Target Store Houston TX
06-07-2007 CITATION CompUSA Inc. Store #508 Bayamon, PR
06-07-2007 CITATION Circuit City Store # 3249 Plantation, FL
06-07-2007 CITATION Best Buy Store #551 Plantation, FL
06-07-2007 CITATION Best Buy Store # 36 Independence, MO
06-07-2007 CITATION Best Buy - Store 438, San Diego, CA
SkipSanders
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Post by SkipSanders »

Also of note, even though one hand approved GMRS/FRS radios with voice inversion scrambling, the FCC 'official' response in their knowledgebase on GMRS radio use of scrambling:

Publication Number: 791760 Rule Parts: 95A Publication Date: 04/16/2007
Published: Y FAQ: Y Interpretation: N
Keyword: Section 95.183(a)(4), Voice Scrambling GMRS Radio
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First Category: Radio Service Rules
Second Category: Part 95 Personal Radio Services
Third Category: General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS)
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Question:
Is voice scrambling allowed for a GMRS device?
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Answer:
No, voice scrambling is coded messages and Section 95.183 (a)(4) prohibits coded messages or messages with hidden meaning for a GMRS device.
Brian
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Post by Brian »

WOW Looks like FCC was having fun those few days!
That was the short list you posted..... check the full list here :-)
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/



Here is the Released: May 3, 2007 of the TV sell rule.

LABELING OF ANALOG-ONLY TV RECEIVERS

"In light of the fixed deadline - February 17, 2009 -
established for the end of analog television broadcasting, we
[the FCC] now conclude that it is necessary and appropriate to
require retailers to provide consumers with information regarding
this transition date at the point of sale. Specifically, we will
require sellers of television receiving equipment that does not
include a digital tuner to disclose at the point-of-sale that such
devices include only an analog tuner and therefore will require a
converter box to receive over-the-air broadcast television after
February 17, 2009."

Download the following URL and scroll down to page 16 to
see the labeling requirements. Amended Rule 15.117(k) becomes
effective on May 25, 2007 "subject to OMB approval...." Action
by Second Report & Order.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a ... 7-69A1.doc
Brian
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Post by Brian »

Update:

NOTICE OF APPARENT LIABILITY FOR FORFEITURE
Adopted: April 9, 2008 Released: April 10, 2008

Typical of many recent Notices of Apparent Liability is this NOI issued to Fry's Electronics for failure to place required Consumer Alert labels near TVs offered for sale without DTV tuners.

that Fry’s is apparently liable for a forfeiture in the amount of three hundred eighty-four thousand dollars ($384,000).

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a ... -102A1.doc
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Coded messaging

Post by 31 »

On the CODED MESSAGING someone is WRONG the FCC consitters encryption a sipher the OLD RULES SAID NO CODES EXCEPT FOR the (10) CODE and NO SIPHERS I believe the new rules have DROPED that as GARMIN and KENWOOD both sell GMRS radios with built in scramblers.


[quote="Brian"]WOW Looks like FCC was having fun those few days!
That was the short list you posted..... check the full list here :-)
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/



Here is the Released: May 3, 2007 of the TV sell rule.

LABELING OF ANALOG-ONLY TV RECEIVERS

"In light of the fixed deadline - February 17, 2009 -
established for the end of analog television broadcasting, we
[the FCC] now conclude that it is necessary and appropriate to
require retailers to provide consumers with information regarding
this transition date at the point of sale. Specifically, we will
require sellers of television receiving equipment that does not
include a digital tuner to disclose at the point-of-sale that such
devices include only an analog tuner and therefore will require a
converter box to receive over-the-air broadcast television after
February 17, 2009."

Download the following URL and scroll down to page 16 to
see the labeling requirements. Amended Rule 15.117(k) becomes
effective on May 25, 2007 "subject to OMB approval...." Action
by Second Report & Order.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a ... 7-69A1.doc[/quote]
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