FCC sets aside Maine amateur's licence renewal

FCC sets aside Maine amateur's licence renewal

"FCC sets aside Maine amateur's licence renewal

The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) has set aside its grant of license renewal to Glenn A. Baxter, K1MAN, of Belgrade Lakes, Maine.

According to correspondence the FCC released recently, the WTB took the action soon after it had granted Baxter's renewal application, received on July 22 via the W5YI VEC.

'The application has been set aside for enforcement review,' Associate Chief of Licensing Operations Tracy Simmons told Baxter in a July 25 letter from the FCC's Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, office.

Simmons said the WTB took the action in accordance with 47 CFR 1.113(a). That section says: 'Within 30 days after public notice has been given of any action taken pursuant to delegated authority, the person, panel, or board taking the action may modify or set it aside on its own motion.' Baxter's Amateur Radio license is set to expire October 17, 2005.

In early June, the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) proposing to fine Baxter $21,000. In the NAL, the FCC alleges that Baxter has violated several sections of the Part 97 Amateur Service Rules.

The list includes rules proscribing interference with ongoing communications, transmitting communications in which he has a pecuniary interest, failure to provide information the FCC requested, engaging in broadcasting, and failure to exercise control of his station."


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