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ENFORCEMENT: UNLICENSED OREGON OPERATOR FINED $15000
The FCC has issued a Notice of Apparent Liability in the
amout of $15,000 to Joshua McMurchie of Prineville, Oregon.
This for his alleged operation of a an unauthorized station
on 97.9 MHz.
Back in 2011 agents from the FCC's Portland Office of its
Enforcement Bureau responded to a complaint and traced the
signal to McMurchie's home. Local law enforcement officers
accompanied the FCC agents and left a Notice of Unlicensed
Operation with another resident of the house and also mailed
a notice as a backup. According to the FCC McMurchie signed
for the latter notice in October 2011,
This past May, the FCC's Portland Enforcement Bureau
received another complaint about an illegal station on 97.9
MHz. Both the FCC and Prineville Police officers went to
his home, were granted admittance and found a transmitter
broadcasting at that location. The FCC says that McMurchie
admitted he operated the station and offered to surrender
his equipment to the agents.
Now the FCC has issued a proposed penalty. In reaching its
decision, the agency boted that the base fine for operating
an illegal station is $10,000. However the commission fined
McMurchie $15,000 because of his repeated violations. He
too has the customary 30 days from receipt of the notice to
pay the proposed fine or to file an appeal. (FCC)
BT
ENFORCEMENT: FCC FINES CALIFORNIA CB OPERATOR $7000 FOR
REFUSAL TO PERMIT STATION INSPECTION
The FCC has affirmed a $7000 fine issued to a California
Citizens Radio operator. This after he refused to let the
FCC inspect his station on several occasions. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, is here with the details:
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This case dates back to March 19, 2010. That's when agents
from the San Francisco FCC Office responded to a complaint
of interference to the radio communication system equipment
of the Merced County Fire Department. The agents then
monitored the radio transmissions on frequency 27.165 MHz
and used radio direction finding techniques to locate the
source of the signal associated with the interference to a
CB radio station operating from an Ira Jones' residence in
Merced.
The agents approached Jones, identified themselves and told
him about the interference. He denied being the source of
the interference. They then asked to inspect Jones CB radio
station but he refused.
The scenario was basically repeated on August 27th, 2010
when FCC agents, this time accompanied by officers of the
Merced Police Department again visited Jones residence. Once
again they were refused admittance. On both occasions the
FCC issue Jones written warning notices that he refused to
accept.
On March 10, 2011, the San Francisco Office issued a Notice
of Apparent Liability for Monetary Forfeiture in the amount
of $7,000 to Jones for failing to allow authorized FCC
personnel to inspect his CB radio station. Jones responded
to the N-A-L on March 30th. At that time he argued that he
has not seen the complaints of the alleged the interference,
that he did not receive the described warnings from the San
Francisco agents, and that the agents did not produce valid
identification cards.
But the FCC was not persuaded by any of Jones claims. On
July 27th it affirmed the Forfeiture Order that gives Jones
the customary 30 days to pay the $7000 fine or to file a
further appeal.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, in
Los Angeles.
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This is the second time in recent weeks that an 11 meter C-B
operator has been fined in relation to radio gear that in
some way was found to interfere with some form of public
service communications. In this case the fine is based not
on the interference caused by the C-B operators station but
rather because he refused an order from the FCC to inspect
it. (FCC)
BT
ENFORCEMENT: UNLICENSED OPERATOR CAUGHT ON VK REPEATER
An unlicensed operator who haunted an Australian repeater
has been caught.
About three weeks ago several members of a radio club were
contacted by what appeared to be a person operating with a
phony call over the Redcliffe repeater. The operator was
using the call sign VK4NFL. It did not take very long for
that unidentified operator to get caught after authorities
became involved.
Australia's Communications and Media Authority or A-C-M-A
located the station and the matter is now in the hands of
the Commonwealth legal authorities. It appears as though
they do not waste very much time with unlicensed violators
like this one, down-under. (WIA)
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