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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
ENFORCEMENT BUREAU
REGION THREE

Los Angeles Regional Office
11331 183rd Street, PMB #365
Cerritos, CA 90703
Field@FCC.gov
(562) 860-7474

October 1, 2018


BY UPS AND FIRST CLASS MAIL

James Brunelle
Canyon Country, California


NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION

	Case Number: EB-FIELDWR-18-00027634
	
After receiving an interference complaint, the Los Angeles Office of the Federal Communications Commissions (Commissions) Enforcement Bureau investigated an unlicensed FM station operating on frequency 99.9 MHz.  On September 5, 2018, Agents from the Los Angeles Office confirmed by direction finding techniques that FM broadcast radio signals on frequency 99.9 MHz were emanating from a residence on Lillyglen Drive in Canyon Country, California. California property records indicate that you are the owner of this property.  Agents observed that the station identified itself as Radio Free Pinetree and advertised its operation on an associated website radiofreepinetree.org.  The Commissions records show that no license was issued for operation of a radio station at this location on 99.9 MHz in Canyon Country, California.    

Radio stations operating on a range of frequencies, 47 CFR  73.201.
 including 99.9 MHz, must be licensed by the Commission pursuant to Section 301 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act). 47 U.S.C.  301.  
  The only exception to this licensing requirement is for certain transmitters using or operating at a power level that complies with the standards established in Part 15 of the Commissions rules. 47 CFR  15.1 et seq.
  The Agents found that the station at your property was operating at a power level that exceeds the level permitted by Part 15.  The field strength of the signal on frequency 99.9 MHz was measured at levels exceeding the maximum permitted level of 250 microvolts per meter at 3 meters for non-licensed devices.  Thus, this station is operating in violation of Section 301 of the Act. 47 U.S.C.  301.



You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of the Federal laws cited above and could subject the operator to severe penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines, in rem seizure of the offending radio equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment. See 47 U.S.C.  401, 501, 503 and 510.
    

UNLICENSED OPERATION OF THIS RADIO STATION MUST BE DISCONTINUED IMMEDIATELY AND MUST NOT RESUME.

You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond with any evidence that you have authority to operate granted by the Commission.  Your response should be sent to the address in the letterhead and reference the listed case number.  Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C.  552a(e)(3).
 we are informing you that the Commissions staff will use all relevant material information before it to determine what, if any, enforcement action is required to ensure your compliance with the Commissions rules.  This will include any information that you disclose in your reply.

You may contact this office if you have any questions.



Lark Hadley
Regional Director
Region Three
Enforcement Bureau




Attachments:
	Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended
	Enforcement Bureau, "Inspection Fact Sheet"