FCC Cites "Enforcement Issues" in Short-Term License Grant
NEWINGTON, CT, Jun 3, 2002--The FCC has okayed a Pennsylvania amateur's application to upgrade to Extra class, but due to "previous enforcement issues," the FCC granted only a two-year license term. The normal license term is 10 years.
The FCC acted April 9 in the case of Sam W. Jacobs, K3SAM, of Latrobe. Terms of the arrangement were spelled out in a May 20 letter to Jacobs from FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth. The "issues" in question related to Jacobs' July 2000 application for a club station license in which there were "discrepancies in your listing of officers," Hollingsworth said.
In 2000, the FCC first set aside then dismissed the club station license grant of KB3FGX for the "J and D Club" in the wake of complaints that the club's real purpose "was to harass other amateur operators," Hollingsworth wrote at the time. In addition, three amateurs whom Jacobs had listed on his application as club officials claimed not to be affiliated with the J and D club or to have resigned from the club.
Hollingsworth told ARRL this week that Jacobs agreed to the short-term sanction. If Jacobs keeps a clean record for the next couple of years, he'll be able to renew his ticket routinely for a 10-year term in 2004. If any violations of the FCC's rules occur, Hollingsworth warned, Jacobs' renewal application could be designated for hearing.
The club license application was not the only enforcement issue to involve Jacobs. In January 2000, the FCC sent a Warning Notice to Jacobs to advise him that broadcasting is not allowed on the Amateur Radio service. The FCC cited information that the licensee "apparently" had appropriated a 40-meter frequency--7.262 MHz--before the start of the "PLC Net" and was engaged in "broadcasting, talking to no one in particular, making non-serious CQ calls, and filibustering the frequency in order to hold it for the start of net operations."
Hollingsworth advised the licensee at the time that such activities are "not only against the amateur rules, but constitute poor amateur practice and will jeopardize your Amateur Radio license."
Hollingsworth
also applied the short-term renewal sanction in the case of a California
amateur--Peter M. Figueroa, N6IWH, of Berkeley. In April, the FCC sent Figueroa
a Warning Notice because his
license had expired but he was continuing to operate. Figueroa told the FCC
he'd neglected to file a renewal application because of the illness of an
out-of-state family member and had since filed for renewal. Hollingsworth said
the FCC accepted his explanation, but he noted that Figueroa had operated on at
least 31 occasions after expiration of his license.
"In
view of that, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has granted your
application for renewal of N6IWH for a two-year period," Hollingsworth
wrote May 21. "If there are no violations of Commission rules during this
two year period, you may routinely renew your license."
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