It took a probe that spanned two years and a stealth visit to the Cincinnati area, but a Federal Communications Commission enforcement official says his bureau caught a Union Township amateur radio operator intentionally interfering with the transmissions of his broadcasting buddies.
The man identified and now facing a proposed $8,000 FCC fine is Daniel R. Hicks, who earlier had volunteered in the search to find the culprit accused of using someone else’s call sign to broadcast interference that evolved from being a nuisance into an obscene and racist affront.
James Bridgewater, district director of the FCC Northeast Region Enforcement Bureau office in Detroit, said one of his agents spent April 7, 2014, to April 9, 2014, in the Cincinnati area investigating multiple complaints from amateur radio operators about interference with their radio transmissions.
“The agent, working with a local amateur group which included Mr. Hicks, was unable to locate the source of the transmissions,” Bridgewater said in a notice announcing that the FCC enforcement bureau is recommending Hicks pay an $8,000 fine….
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