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FCC Enforcement Action Update July 2017

A recent flurry of FCC Enforcement Bureau correspondence to alleged unlicensed broadcasters has targeted at least one more radio amateur — this time in the Greater New York City area.

Winston A. Tulloch, KC2ALN, of Paterson, New Jersey, has been visited again by the FCC, after several months on investigating Tulloch regarding a pirate FM station on 90.9 MHz.

Last November 2016, the Enforcement Bureau sent Tulloch a Notice of Unlicensed Operation after receiving information that he was operating a radio station. FCC agents used direction-finding techniques to zero in on a signal on 90.9 MHz coming from his residence."

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