ARRL Releases Executive Committee Minutes for June

Minutes of the ARRL Executive Committee Meeting, held 9th June 2022, are now available to download

Pending rulemakings: Attention continues to be focused on FCC inaction in resolving the multiple amateur proceedings that have been pending for a number of years. The lack of action across all the pending subjects and related strategies and plans were discussed.

Enforcement action: The FCC adopted a Notice of Apparent Liability and Forfeiture against a licensee for actions that allegedly included using an “amateur radio handheld” to transmit on a 151 MHz channel being actively used for forest firefighting purposes. The individual’s company also holds multiple commercial FCC Part licenses. We only know the account that the FCC published, but from that it appears that he disclosed his location and spoke freely with local officials.

A second enforcement action by one of the FCC’s field offices relates to a carrier that was constantly transmitted on 40 meters. It appears that a failure occurred at the station resulting in the station’s transmitter being placed in a constant “key-down” position while the operator was absent.

Download the minutes - http://arrl.org/board-meetings