FCC Warns Against Foolishness on Guard

[onezuludelta]

"The FAA and FCC want aviators to remember that a specific radio frequency is for emergencies, and that's it. The FCC made clear in a notice Tuesday that the frequency isn't for "false distress or emergency messages, superfluous communications, messages containing obscene, indecent or profane words or meaning, general calls (calls not addressed to a particular station), routine messages, radio tests and transmission of recorded audio (such as music or spoken text)." The FAA said that each one of those kinds of chatter has been "happening quite often" on the frequency meant for real distress situations."

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0808/DA-17-747A1.pdf

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

But it's an interesting piece of law in that it's yet another area you don't get due process. Judge simply agrees and issues the fine. Wage garnishment can start immediately thereafter.

A judge who works for the agency itself. Your first appeal is to the decision maker of the agency. And after that you can finally appeal to the appellate court and get a real judge.

Of course you can then only raise issues that you had raised during the administrative procedure, even though the administrative law judge working for the agency will rule that none of them can be decided on at that level.

Real nice due process in these regulatory actions [\sarcasm]