Dipenjara Kerana Men-“Jamming”

(This article is about Jack Gerritsen of Bell, CA who had the amateur radio callsign KG6IRO)

Jack Gerritsen was well known in Southern California for jamming radio communications. Here is a timeline: 

• December 1999
  Arrested by the CHP for jamming police radios from his home in Bell, CA.
• June 2000
  Convicted of the above charge. Placed on probation.
• June 2001
  Applied for an amateur radio license. Issued a Technician-class license
  with the callsign KG6IRO.
  Almost immediately the FCC received complaints about his on-air behavior
  so they rescinded his license based on the complaints and because of
  his earlier conviction.
• July 2001
  Local police forwarded more complaints about his on-air behavior to the
  FCC. Again the FCC advised him that his license was not valid.
• January 2002
  Arrested for violating his probation (illegally using radios), sentenced to 18 months in prison.
• June 2003
  Released from prison, he begins jamming police radio, ham radio, and business band radio.
• November 2003
  FCC traces the illegal transmissions as originating from his home. The FCC cited him for using a radio without a license.
• February 2004
  FCC traces the illegal transmissions as originating from his home (again). The FCC issued a $10,000 fine against him.
• June 2004
  FCC traces illegal transmissions jamming the 147.435 repeater as originating from his home.
• July 2004
  FCC receives complaints that he is jamming the 146.985 and 147.105 repeaters.
• September 2004
  FCC receives complaints that he is jamming a Catalina Island repeater
  net, traces the transmissions as originating from his home.
• October 2004
  FCC receives a complaint that he is jamming a Catalina Island repeater
  while it was being used by the Coast Guard in an attempt to reach a ship
  that had lost radio contact and was in possible distress. FCC traces
  the jamming transmissions as originating from his home.
• December 2004
  The FCC issued a $21,000 fine against him for jamming ham repeaters from June 2004 to September 2004.
• January 2005
  The FCC issued a $21,000 fine against him for jamming the Catalina Island repeater in October 2004.
• February 2005
  He is observed jamming an American Red Cross radio net and an Army MARS radio net.
• May 2005
  The FBI and FCC pay him a visit at his home in Bell, CA. He is arrested and his radio equipment was confiscated.
  He is indicted with six federal charges in regard to using a radio without a license and jamming radio transmissions.
• July 2005
  He is sentenced (in state court) to 4 months in jail. These were state charges separate from the FBI/FCC federal charges.
• December 2005
  He is convicted on various charges from the May 2005 arrest.
• September 2006
  He is sentenced to 7 years in federal prison.
• July 2009
  He appeals his conviction claiming the government erred in allowing him
  to represent himself in court. The appeals court upholds his conviction. 

Sumber lain :

1. http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2005/DA-05-3124A1.html
2. http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2006-09-22
3. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMRS/message/9781
4. http://www.radiobanter.com/showthread.php?t=70245
5. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2005/jack_gerritsen_guilty.htm
6. http://www.eham.net/articles/12621
7. http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?70434-Ex-KG6IRO-Convicted!
8. http://www.eham.net/articles/8777?ehamsid=68e38ee8a2bc714934676c06f9e31398
9. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/mar2005/jack_gerritsen.htm
10. http://www.w5yi.org/ama_news_article.php?id=85

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