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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on August 21, 2015, 1507 UTC

Title: FCC Proposes to Fine Ohio Radio Amateur for Malicious Interference,Failure to ID
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on August 21, 2015, 1507 UTC

The FCC has proposed levying an $8000 fine on a Cincinnati, Ohio, radio amateur, Daniel R. Hicks, KB8UYZ, who, at one point, had volunteered to track down the interference he was causing on a number of primarily VHF repeaters. In a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) released on August 20, the FCC Enforcement Bureau asserted that Hicks intentionally interfered with other Amateur Radio operators’ communications and failed to identify properly. According to the NAL, an agent from the Bureau’s Detroit office first responded to multiple complaints of interference on various repeaters in April 2014.

Full article:
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-to-fine-ohio-radio-amateur-for-malicious-interference-failure-to-identify (http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-to-fine-ohio-radio-amateur-for-malicious-interference-failure-to-identify)