[FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF, Same in La.

[ed]

i wasn't aware FCC and USCG are responsible for enforcing international law 
(at gunpoint in international waters.)  apparently they do what they want, 
where they want to.  especially these days.

-ed


At 04:01 PM 5/13/05 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm familiar with the case, but international broadcasting from the high 
>seas is prohibited by international law.  I don't know how strictly it's 
>enforced, but there was discussion of the question way back when the Voice 
>of America reoutfitted the old Coast Guard cutter ''Courier'' with 35 k.w. 
>transmitters for broadcast relays and stationed it off Rhodes in the 
>eastern Mediterranean to broadcast to the Balkans during the Cold 
>War..  Two-way comms are definitely in a different category, but, again, I 
>don't know what the applicable rules for them are.
>
>Bob, w0nxn
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "ed" <bernies at netaxs.com>
>To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [FedCom] Shrimpers on Fed VHF, Same in La.
>
>
>>At 11:30 AM 5/13/05 -0500, R. Rankin wrote:
>>>If they're more than 12 miles offshore, I wonder if it's even illegal?
>>>
>>>Bob, w0nxn
>>
>>
>>ask allan weiner about the legality of transmitting in international waters:
>>
>>http://www.offshore-radio.de/fleet/sarah.htm
>>
>>-ed, n3kow
>>
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