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 Almost immediately the FCC received complaints about his on-air behavior so they rescinded his license based on the complaints and because of his earlier conviction.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.
- http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2005/DA-05-3124A1.html
- http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2006-09-22
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMRS/message/9781
- http://www.radiobanter.com/showthread.php?t=70245
- http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2005/jack_gerritsen_guilty.htm
- http://www.eham.net/articles/12621
- http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?70434-Ex-KG6IRO-Convicted!
- http://www.eham.net/articles/8777?ehamsid=68e38ee8a2bc714934676c06f9e31398
- http://www.southgatearc.org/news/mar2005/jack_gerritsen.htm
- http://www.w5yi.org/ama_news_article.php?id=85
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