Subj : Licensee Hit With $24,000 Fine for Jamming Net, Failure to ID: FCC
To : QST
From : ARRL de WD1CKS
Date : Mon Jun 05 2023 03:19 pm
06/05/2023
An investigation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) results in a
large fine against a California amateur radio license holder. A Notice of
Apparent Liability Forfeiture (NALF) for $24,000 has been filed against Phillip
J. Beaudet, N6PJB, of Burney, California. According to the filing, the penalty
is for Beaudet "willfully and repeatedly interfering with the radio
communications of the Western Amateur Radio Friendship Association (WARFA)
while it was attempting to hold a regularly scheduled net and for failing to
provide station identification on amateur radio frequencies." FCC agents used
direction finding techniques during November and December of 2022 to track the
interfering signals to Beaudet's home station. Agents "heard him playing
recordings on 3.908 MHz that caused interference to the ongoing WARFA net while
failing to provide his assigned amateur call sign," the document stated.
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