Report No. DC-2596         ACTION IN DOCKET CASE               May 13, 1994


         FCC DECLINES FURTHER RELAXATION OF AMATEUR SERVICES RULES
                   CONCERNING PERMISSIBLE COMMUNICATIONS
                          (PR DOCKET NO. 92-136)

     The Commission has denied two petitions for reconsideration of
its decision to relax restriction on the scope of permissible
communications in the amateur service.

     The Commission amended its rules to allow licensees to use
amateur service frequencies to facilitate events such as races and
parades, to support educational activities, to provide personal
communications such as making appointments and ordering food, to
collect data for the National Weather Service, and to provide
assistance voluntarily, even where there are other authorized radio
services available.

     David B. Popkin and Rolland D. Cummings filed petitions
requesting further relaxation of the rules to permit the
retransmission of time broadcasts originated by United States
Government stations.  Popkin also asked the Commission to permit
the retransmission of other information originated by Government
stations, and to substitute the phrase "instructional activity" for
the phrase "classroom instruction."

     Denying reconsideration, the Commission said the petitioners
had merely reiterated views already expressed in comments in the
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

     Action by the Commission May 9, 1994, by Memorandum Opinion
and Order (FCC 94-111).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello and
Barrett.

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