Report No. CI 99-13           COMPLIANCE AND INFO ACTION            March  12, 1999

  FCC TAKES ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN CALIFORNIA AND PENNSYLVANIA
                  AMATEUR RADIO REPEATER CASES


     The Commission has shut down a San Francisco Amateur Radio Repeater system located
at Grizzley Peak, CA, due to lack of station control by the licensee, Bruce Wachtell, Call Sign
K7IJ.  FCC monitoring of the communications on the four repeaters in the system, operating on
145.290, 223.780, 440.175 and 441.175 MHz revealed jamming, rebroadcast of cordless
telephone calls, as well as solicitation of unlicensed users by the Control Operator, Blake Jenkins,
Call Sign N6YSA.  Both Wachtell and Jenkins have been given 30 days to provide information to
the Commission regarding operation of the Amateur Repeater.  Four users of the K7IJ repeater
who had operated on the repeater prior to receiving a FCC license, had their license grants set
aside by the Commission.

     Meanwhile, in a Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Repeater case, the Commission utilized
mobile radio direction finding techniques to solve a longstanding interference problem.  Two
amateur radio operators, Michael Gallagher, Call Sign KB3DHX, of Concord, MA, and Kornwell
Chan, Call Sign W3C1, of Dresher, PA, were determined to have maliciously interferred with the
Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Repeater two meter station, W3QV.  Commission personnel traced
the radio transmissions on multiple occasions in February to a vehicle in Willow Grove and in
Hatboro, PA, Both licensees have been issued Notices of Apparent Liability for $7,500.

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     For further information, contact W. Riley Hollingsworth, Compliance and Information
Bureau at 717-338-2502.