FCC Shows No Mercy, Sustains $22,000 Fine for Egregious On-Air Behavior by Ham

[ChrisSmolinski]

07/24/2015The FCC has dropped the other shoe — hard — in the case of Michael Guernsey, KZ8O (ex-ND8V), of Parchment, Michigan, imposing the full $22,000 fine it had proposed in 2014 for causing intentional interference with other Amateur Radio communications and for failing to identify. In a Forfeiture Order issued on July 22, 2015 — exactly 1 year from its Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) proposing the hefty fine — the FCC cited Guernsey’s “long history of causing interference to other Amateur Radio operators” and noted that he “has been warned repeatedly in writing.” Guernsey’s interactions with the FCC Enforcement Bureau date back well over a decade, and, at one point agreed to have his license suspended for 9 months.

In a related enforcement case, the FCC in January affirmed an $11,500 fine against Brian Crow, K3VR, of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for causing deliberate interference. The FCC The Enforcement Bureau had proposed fining for both Crow and Guernsey in separate, but similarly worded Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture issued a year ago. Crow did not respond to the 2014 NAL.

In both instances, the FCC said, it responded in March 2014 to “several complaints of intentional interference” on 14.313 MHz, and Commission agents used radio direction-finding techniques to pin down the transmission sources.

Full article:
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-shows-no-mercy-sustains-22-000-fine-for-egregious-on-air-behavior-by-michigan-licensee

[atrainradio]

Is he the fella who was on 75 metres around 3870? I know that is very vague but back in March I was listening to some hams on 3872 in AM mode and this guy kept yelling over their signals.

[Zoidberg]

Eeen-teresting.  I noticed Mad Mikey's absence from 20m recently.  Kinda doubt this will dissuade the hamsters for long.  They usually take the bait whenever their Canadian nemesis calls.

[Pigmeat]

Is he the fella who was on 75 metres around 3870? I know that is very vague but back in March I was listening to some hams on 3872 in AM mode and this guy kept yelling over their signals.

Yup, that was him. ND8V/KZ8O was the sweetheart of the 75 meter AM window for years.

Listening to him melt down over the Xmas/New Years drinking season was one of the highlights of the year, Atrain. Think of him as a less lucid, Hank,The Angry Drunken Dwarf.

[osiris]

14.313 is a freaking riot... Literally... This crap has been going on for at least ten years. When I get bored and need a laugh tuning to 313 rarely disappoints. TBH, I don't really care as long as it STAYS on 14.313. 7.200 is just as bad at times.

[Zoidberg]

For awhile they mostly haunted 14275.  Mad Mikey would QRM any nearby QSOs during contest weekends, running splits, announcing "No-contest contests", and effectively dominating a swath from 14260-14280.

I didn't listen much from 2012-2013, and sometime afterward they moved their troll party to 14313.  Seems like the FCC should have just left 'em alone up there with their Canadian nemesis, as long as they weren't QRMing anyone outside their sandbox.

BTW, has anyone ever figured out the source of that constant heterodyne or carrier around 14275?  Seems like the FCC would have tracked that down by now if they were serious, which kinda makes one wonder whether it's generated by the fedz.

[atrainradio]

Okay thanks Pigmeat! I figured that was they guy.

[Rafman]

The whole 20M jamming show has been going on since the days of KV4FZ, who jammed the Maritime Mobile Net for years from the Virgin Islands...
He made it a daily show [habit] almost 30 years ago... Finally lost his license after appealing to SCOTUS in 2000 http://www.eham.net/articles/314

These recently fined guys are like 3rd generation jammers, so "it's about time" is a joke & so is the VE3xxx...

FCC Priority? FM pirates LOL   

[Chanter]

Oooooh, I thought the constant flipping annoying het/carrier on 14275 was just me getting local interference from something!  I didn't know it was audible elsewhere.  Huh.