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FCC Initiates Review of Pelham, Georgia, ARRL VEC Exam Session
NEWINGTON, CT, Dec 20, 2002--The FCC has initiated a review of a June 2000 ARRL VEC examination session in Pelham, Georgia. At that session, an examinee who had attempted unsuccessfully on multiple occasions to pass Element 2 (Technician) at other exam sites got a perfect score on Element 2 and also passed Element 3 (General).
The applicant in question, Albert Lee Clark, of Oxford, Georgia, subsequently was granted a General ticket as KG4IJV. Clark did not take the Element 1 (Morse code) examination at the Pelham session but apparently had provided proof of Element 1 credit to the VE team. The FCC called Clark in for retesting last spring and cancelled his license after he failed to appear.
FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth wrote volunteer examiners William K. Ferguson, W9UNH, Alice Childs, AF4HB, and Walter J. Childs, KQ4SF, on November 12 asking them to provide further information on the examination session at which Clark had qualified for General. In a separate letter November 12 to ARRL VEC Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, Hollingsworth requested that the ARRL VEC not accept the services of the three VEs involved in the Pelham session at least until the FCC concludes its investigation. Suspension of volunteer examiners is standard procedure during such inquiries.
Among other things, Hollingsworth asked Ferguson and the Childses to describe any conversations they might have had with Clark as well as any documents or materials Clark may have had before, during or after the examination session. Hollingsworth also wanted the three VEs to tell where and how the test session was administered, "including the location of VEs during the examination and the names and addresses of anyone else present before and during the examination."
Records provided by the FCC indicate that from January 1999 until March 2000, Clark took the Technician exam seven times under another VEC and never answered more than approximately half the questions correctly. At the ARRL VEC session on June 20, 2000, however, he was credited with obtaining a perfect score on the Tech exam, then passing the General test with only one wrong answer.
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