Public Radio Station Fined $12000 for 6 years of Missing Paper Work

The FCC has proposed a $12,000 fine and a shorter license renewal term for Gallup Public Radio. This based on some missing documents from its public file.
New Mexico station KGLP –FM admitted it was missing nearly six years’ worth of issues and programs lists from the file. In its reply to the FCC the station indicated it has now reconstructed the missing documents.
However the FCC’s Media Bureau said in its decision the station is still responsible for the lapse. The commission found the violations to be “extensive,” occurring for nearly six years of an eight-year license term. For that reason the agency raised the proposed monetary forfeiture from the base $10,000 to $12,000 and also granted the station a shortened, four-year, license renewal term.
Gallup Public Radio was given the usual 30 days from imposition of the fine to pay the amount in full or to file a further appeal.

D-STAR Experimental Net on 40 Meters

If you have interest in digital audio on the High Frequency bands you might want to tune your D-Star equipped transceiver to 7.215 MHz at noon UTC. This to see if you can take part in a D-Star test net operating from Australia most mornings.

The net control is Brian Farrar, VK2AH, in New South Whales who says the best contacts so far have been from his location to the city of Horsham about 550 miles away. Farrar says that net participants have tried other bands with no much success but 40 meters seems promising.

VK2AK is not only on for the net but also tries 40 meter D-Star at other times of the day as well. While operating he also monitors D-Star Reflector REF003 and does put out alerts when he is looking for D-Star contacts from his QTH down-under.