Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
**CORRECTION: 42 days, not 42 months ...
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In This weeks Radio Dork news:
In the spirit of maintaining emergency communications and making friends, an amateur radio operator group is building a new videoconferencing community that uses the internet instead of radio waves to talk with strangers around the world.
As reported by the Amateur Radio Daily website, the new online-only video group for licensed ham radio operators worldwide and is intended to support and build face-to-face friendships.
For more information about this new 24/7 online video-conferencing group and how to join, contact Murray, K3BEQ or Roger, KE8LCM.
Radio authorities in Japan have reported multiple enforcement actions throughout the months of June and July, including warnings, fines and administrative suspensions for unlicensed amateur radio installations aboard ships and in vehicles.
As reported by the hamlife.jp website, one of those caught up in the sting was a 52 year old resident of Sishiwa city who was subsequently sentenced to 42 months of administrative suspension for illegally operating a two-way radio in his vehicle, a violation of Article 4 of the Radio Act of Japan.
On July 14 broadcasters from over 30 states lobbied on Capitol Hill in Washington DC to advance the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle" Act, amid concerns over vehicle manufacturers planning to no longer include AM radios in new vehicles, due to interference from electric vehicles.
As reported by insideradio.com, Curtis LeGey, President and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters believes that keeping AM radios in the dashboard of all cars is exceedingly important, and that if AM radios are not included in automobiles it would cause harm to consumers.
A Kentucky family has filed a civil lawsuit against their county school board and the sheriff department, alleging that in January of 2025, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy seized the amateur radio equipment of a licensed high school student after reports that the student was transmitting on a public, non-law enforcement frequency that his amateur radio license authorized him to use.
The 51 page lawsuit goes on to allege that the unidentified student's civil rights were further violated when the school further retaliated by suspending him from class and having is father arrested when he tried to intervene with the equipment seizures.
All charges were later dropped by the county district court after ruling that the seizure of the equipment without a warrant was illegal and inadmissible in court, resulting in the sheriff's deputy that carried-out the seizure being suspended from the Sherrif's department.
The lawsuit claims that the student, identified only as L.B. was also suspended three times despite the school principal confirming that no rules had been violated.
The family is seeking damages and an order blocking the district from enforcing a radio policy that it claims has been improperly adopted.
And now for the FCC enforcement roundup. Here is the breakdown of what the FCC got up to in the month of July, 2026.
The FCC proposed multiple fines and reached settlement agreements with over a dozen wireless phone service providers,
and they proposed a $40,000 dollar fine for a Connecticut man accused of operating a pirate radio station on a commercial FM frequency.
And the part you've all been waiting for: the total number of arrests, fines or jail-time for CB radio, GMRS, and Amateur radio operators was... ZERO.
And that is all of the radio-dork news that is fit to print. Join me again next week, or sooner, when I may, or may not, do this again. Good night, and good luck
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00:00 No Radio Required
00:39 Ham radio crackdown in Japan
01:15 The AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act Lobbying
01:52 Ham Radio civil lawsuit
03:10 FCC Roundup for July 2026
03:53 Quansheng UV-K1 Roger Beep
**CORRECTION: 42 days, not 42 months ...
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In This weeks Radio Dork news:
In the spirit of maintaining emergency communications and making friends, an amateur radio operator group is building a new videoconferencing community that uses the internet instead of radio waves to talk with strangers around the world.
As reported by the Amateur Radio Daily website, the new online-only video group for licensed ham radio operators worldwide and is intended to support and build face-to-face friendships.
For more information about this new 24/7 online video-conferencing group and how to join, contact Murray, K3BEQ or Roger, KE8LCM.
Radio authorities in Japan have reported multiple enforcement actions throughout the months of June and July, including warnings, fines and administrative suspensions for unlicensed amateur radio installations aboard ships and in vehicles.
As reported by the hamlife.jp website, one of those caught up in the sting was a 52 year old resident of Sishiwa city who was subsequently sentenced to 42 months of administrative suspension for illegally operating a two-way radio in his vehicle, a violation of Article 4 of the Radio Act of Japan.
On July 14 broadcasters from over 30 states lobbied on Capitol Hill in Washington DC to advance the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle" Act, amid concerns over vehicle manufacturers planning to no longer include AM radios in new vehicles, due to interference from electric vehicles.
As reported by insideradio.com, Curtis LeGey, President and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters believes that keeping AM radios in the dashboard of all cars is exceedingly important, and that if AM radios are not included in automobiles it would cause harm to consumers.
A Kentucky family has filed a civil lawsuit against their county school board and the sheriff department, alleging that in January of 2025, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy seized the amateur radio equipment of a licensed high school student after reports that the student was transmitting on a public, non-law enforcement frequency that his amateur radio license authorized him to use.
The 51 page lawsuit goes on to allege that the unidentified student's civil rights were further violated when the school further retaliated by suspending him from class and having is father arrested when he tried to intervene with the equipment seizures.
All charges were later dropped by the county district court after ruling that the seizure of the equipment without a warrant was illegal and inadmissible in court, resulting in the sheriff's deputy that carried-out the seizure being suspended from the Sherrif's department.
The lawsuit claims that the student, identified only as L.B. was also suspended three times despite the school principal confirming that no rules had been violated.
The family is seeking damages and an order blocking the district from enforcing a radio policy that it claims has been improperly adopted.
And now for the FCC enforcement roundup. Here is the breakdown of what the FCC got up to in the month of July, 2026.
The FCC proposed multiple fines and reached settlement agreements with over a dozen wireless phone service providers,
and they proposed a $40,000 dollar fine for a Connecticut man accused of operating a pirate radio station on a commercial FM frequency.
And the part you've all been waiting for: the total number of arrests, fines or jail-time for CB radio, GMRS, and Amateur radio operators was... ZERO.
And that is all of the radio-dork news that is fit to print. Join me again next week, or sooner, when I may, or may not, do this again. Good night, and good luck
NOTICE - The above links (and most other links on my channel) are affiliate links - if you use one of my affiliate links to make a purchase I may receive money or something of value in return.
00:00 No Radio Required
00:39 Ham radio crackdown in Japan
01:15 The AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act Lobbying
01:52 Ham Radio civil lawsuit
03:10 FCC Roundup for July 2026
03:53 Quansheng UV-K1 Roger Beep
