Most people don't care about FCC rules.

I'm breaking a tonne of FCC rules right now.

Yes but in many ways it's riskier to do that when you have a license from them.

In general, this is pretty true in practice.

Just dont mess with: GPS, Airline radio, cell phones, broadcast infra, emergency services

If you're blowing double the power for ISM, nobody cares. Your PEP using a yagi is 4x what is legal? Unless you piss off a ham, nobody cares.

And even if you are a ham, and are using 150KHz bandwidth with low power in, say 50MHz (regulation says 40KHz max), again, nobody cares.

And also if above 6GHz (common SDR top end), nobody will notice. The equipment up there is $$$$$.

But damn, you want to piss off hams? Mention bitrate maximums or encryption. You'll never hear the end from the old gatekeeping idiots.

	▲	ErroneousBosh 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> But damn, you want to piss off hams? Mention bitrate maximums or encryption. You'll never hear the end from the old gatekeeping idiots. So much gatekeeping. Incidentally, I have it Word From On High within Ofcom here in the UK that you literally cannot pay them to take an interest in what happens on the amateur bands. There's "breaking the law" and there's "being a bit rude", the latter of which might be things like "hey let's do fastscan TV on 70cm and use about half the allocation!" You do have to watch with 70cm in the UK though because amateur radio is a secondary user, with primary users being the armed forces. But it's 10MHz wide and there's space for everyone to play. Putting the 70cm packet BBS channel 5kHz above where all the car alarm keyfobs work was a bit silly though. As regards microwave stuff, I've got some scrap 26GHz stuff at work that can apparently be tuned to 24GHz by swapping the cavity tuning screw for one of the slightly longer ODU outer cover screws, and tweaking a setting in the EEPROM in Factory Never Touch This Shit mode. Want to bet they had radio amateurs working for them?