Climate , News , Weather

Helene Now At Cat 4, Likely To Strengthen to Category 5 with “Unsurvivable” 20 Ft Surge

Helene has strengthened to Category 4 strength, with top winds now around 135 mph. Helene is still rapidly intensifying as it approaches the northeast coast of Florida. Landfall is expected tonight, in just a few hours. It’s not out of the question for the storm to intensify to Cat 5 before landfall.

Fox Weathher Center is monitoring the storm, remaining live all night while they track this devastating storm.

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News , Political

Putin Nuclear Threat Changes The Game

Why does the Biden Administration continue sending billions in military aid, knowing the looming threat of WW3 with Russia? Meanwhile, yesterday’s threat of war with The West ups the ante in this high stakes game of supporting Ukraine.

Story by NewsMax

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-putin-nuclear/2024/09/26/id/1181788/

40 Meters , Bad Boy Frequencies , Dirtbags , Enforcement , FCC , Joe Italiano

AC1DD Caught Baiting All Stations On 7.200 mHz. Why Do People Talk To This Guy?

With stations on one frequency all talking over the talk of each other and someone playing music, one has to wonder, do these people have JOBS? Do they have families?

While Joe Italiano doesn’t show up on 7.200 all that often, when he does, the whole character of the frequency changes.

Before you play the video, check THIS out! Joe is a known pedophile, a know-it-all who takes great pride in baiting other stations, hoping to start a fight, gaslighting anyone who doesn’t hold the same freakish left wing views as he does, and generally being the worst nuisance in all of Amateur Radio. Joe is the proud recipient of several FCC-issued NALs (Notice of Apparent Liability), Formal Notices of Interference and probably some other things. He allegedly beat his wife so severely that she got an emergency restraining order against him several years ago just before she filed for divorce. Joe claims to be the (onetime) president of NAMBLA – North American Man-Boy Love Association. WARNING: If you follow that link, you will probably be GREATLY OFFENDED. This is SICK STUFF! This has apparently been verified. READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE. Yeah, Joe Italiano is a real piece of work, worthy of the highest Dirtbag Award he could get. One day when I get a little better with Photoshop, I’ll m.efore I present MY recording from tonight, here’s a real goodie from a few years ago.  Joe at is best.  Note, Joe has had many different call signs.  PARENTAL WARNING:  This is NOT suitable for children!

Well, now that THAT’s out of the way, Here’s a recording I made last night. I trimmed it way down, because, well, people have short attention spans, and 90 minutes of audio might bore you to tears.

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Political

A State Official Appointed By VP Nominee Tim Walz Calls For U.S. To Be Overthrown

Every day, it seems, more proof emerges that the Harris/Walz ticket would send the US lurching FAR to the left, impacting Americans in ways so bad that one can’t even imagine. Now we learn that a VERY far leftist professor, someone whom Tim Walz appointed to the Minnesota Department of Education a few years ago, said the US is irreparably racist, its built into the very fabric of our nation, and the only way to fix that is to destroy the US as we know it and rebuild it from the ground up.

One can only imagine the horrors of a new, fringe leftist regime taking power and tearing up our Constitution, taking our precious personal liberties away in the process.

Americans everywhere should be alarmed.

The story from Fox News –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/walz-state-education-appointee-called-us-overthrown-deconstructed.print

News

Discussion Boards are UP!

Howdy gang! I’m launching three discussion boards today to get us started. With Facebook, X and other social media monsters out there, I don’t see us getting a lot of activity, however, our visitors have the ultimate control over traffic. If you like it here, and get into lively discussions, then perhaps our social media boards will grow. It’s all up to you!

Above all, have FUN!

73, Steve, K1FRC

40 Meters , Bad Boy Frequencies

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin’! The Noise On 7.200 mHz Keeps Getting Louder!

Friday, September 20 was an exceptionally good night on the HF bands.  Over the past several weeks, propagation has improved dramatically over the near dead-band conditions we experienced over the past Summer, and that led to quite an unscheduled “FBO Net” on 7.200 mHz.  Wait, what’s an FBO?

Technically,  “FBO” stands for “Fine Business Operator”.  Don’t get me going on what any of this stuff really means in real-time.  The term “Fine Business” has been used on the Ham Bands for a very long time, but not in the way it’s come to be in the group of operators who cling to 7.200 on the 40 meter band.

About a month ago, a group of operators led by Darren R Echterling, WO9E, started something called the “Fine Business Operator’s Group”.  The concept, as it evolved, was to help clean up the 7.200 mHz frequency and get the jammers, or “QRMers” off the frequency, or get them to adhere to the Amateur Radio Code of Conduct as laid out by the FCC.  In short, the idea is to get the people operating there to become better Amateur operators and stop jamming the frequency.  I liked the idea so much that I joined, becoming member #11.  According to the group secretary, Alexander Croci, WB3ATF, the group was going to set up a website (we’ll see) and there will be a few more ‘perks’.  Some of the group’s goals include reporting interference to the ARRL’s Volunteer Monitor Program.  Considering the volume of interference on this particular frequency, I recorded about 90 minutes worth of audio from what turned out to be a lively Friday night, as you’ll notice in the audio segment below:

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I do lots of recording. Watch for more!

73 de K1FRC

Enforcement , FCC

Latest FCC Enforcement Actions

The Federal Communications Commission is still active and actively investigates violations of FCC rules, particularly in the area of interference to Public Safety Services and Broadcasters.

This week, the Commission issued a Notice of Harmful Interference to the operator of an HDTV antenna system that somehow managed to interfere with the normal operation of the Massachusetts State Police.  Go figure.  A NOTICE, as issued in this case, does not carry the penalty of a fine, however, when the operator of a device which emits RF energy is notified of interference complaints, it is up to the operator to take immediate steps to remedy that interference.  Either by reducing power, changing the properties of the device so that it no longer interferes with the complaintant, or ceasing operation of the device, whichever solves the problem.  Failure to stop interfering with the licensed service can, and usually does lead to a Notice of Apparent Liability – which is a fancy way of saying a fine, or further, judicial steps taken by the FCC to remedy the situation.   In most cases, the mere issuance of a Notice of Harmful Interference is quite fortunate, as the person served with that notice has time to fix the problem before getting a fine.  In some more serious cases, such as interfering with communications in the Air Bands, the offender is usually tracked down, arrested, and charged with any number of crimes.  Interference on the Air bands, used by private, commercial and even military aircraft to communicate with ground control and other aircraft carry heavy penalties.  This guy got off easy!

Dmitriy Groysman was Issued a Notice of Harmful Interference for operating a 2002 Newest HDTV Indoor Digital TV Antenna that was generating spurious emissions in the 813-817 MHz band and causing harmful interference to the Massachusetts State Police.

The notice is viewable below.

DOC-405626A1

We’ll be posting more enforcement actions as it happens