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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Enforcement Bureau
Spectrum Enforcement Division
1270 Fairfield Road
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325-7245
VIA CERTIFIED MAIL - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
April 18, 2007
Anthony M. Amato
P. O. Box 2280
Chester, VA 23831-8444
RE: WARNING NOTICE: Amateur license KR4UQ Club Call Signs; Case #
EB-2005-2711
Dear Mr. Amato:
On June 28, 2006, we wrote you concerning the following club call signs in
your name as trustee, sixteen of which were granted on the same day:
WC4VAA Virginia ARES RACES Inc. Area 4
W4VSR Virginia Races Inc for Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center
N4DHF Virginia Races Inc for Henrico Doctor's Hospital-Forest
K4MVH Virginia Races Inc for McGuire Veteran's Hospital
WC4RH Virginia Races Inc for Retreat Hospital Mountain Rptr Association
KC4CMC Virginia Races Inc for Chippenham Medical Center
W4VCU Virginia Races Inc for Virginia Commonwealth University Medical
Center
KC4JRM Virginia Races Inc for John Randolph Medical Center
K4SRM Virginia Races Inc for Southside Regional Medical Center
W4CMH Virginia Races Inc for Community Memorial Hospital
N4HRH Virginia Races Inc for Halifax Regional Hospital
K4MRM Virginia Races Inc for Memorial Regional Medical Center
W4SMH Virginia Races Inc for Saint Mary's Hospital
N4SCH Virginia Races Inc for Southside Community Hospital
N4JWH Virginia Races Inc for Johnston-Willis Hospital
W4DHP Virginia Races Inc for Henrico Doctor's Hospital-Parham
WC4RC Virginia Races Inc for Richmond Community Hospital
You supplied information to the Enforcement Bureau indicating that the
call signs were not requested for club stations and that Virginia RACES,
Inc. is not a club but, instead, is a Virginia Not-For-Profit corporation.
Our June 28, 2006 letter notified you, however, that the applications you
filed for these licenses were for club station licenses, and that there is
no provision in the Commission's Amateur Service Rules that allows for the
licensing of not-for-profit corporations. Our letter pointed out that the
types of station licenses that can be granted in the Amateur Service are
shown in Section 97.5 of our rules, and further that section 97.17(a) of
our rules provides that only a "person" is eligible to apply for a new
operator/primary station, club station or military recreation station
license grant."
The June 28, 2006 letter afforded you 45 days to conform the licenses to
Commission rules. You responded by letter dated July 13, 2006 stating that
your counsel would reply to the Enforcement Bureau regarding this matter,
but no response has been received. We are affording you 30 days to
properly license the entities listed above or submit the licenses for
cancellation. Failure to take action in this matter will result in
enforcement action against your license.
Sincerely,
W. Riley Hollingsworth
Special Counsel
cc: FCC South Central Regional Director