Play Nice, or It Will Cost You

[W3WN]

From today's FCC Digest:

VINCENT E. AVERSA, JR. Notified Vincent E. Aversa, Jr. of an Apparent Liability for Forfeiture of $20,000 for operating radio transmission equipment without a license on the International Distress, Safety and Calling Channel. Action by: District Director, Tampa Office, South Central Region, Enforcement Bureau. Adopted: 02/07/2011 by NALF. (DA No. 11-232). EB
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...A-11-232A1.doc
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...A-11-232A1.pdf
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-232A1.txt

Summation: This gentleman was caught using Marine Safety Channel 16 multiple times over a 3 month period... without a license. Most of the recordings of his transmissions indicate that the Coast Guard warned him that he wasn't authorized to use the channel.

And it's going to cost him, pending modification, $20,000.

But the good news... the FCC takes checks, credit cards, or wire transfers.

BTW: There is a licensed amateur named Vincent Aversa, whose address is in Brooklyn. Don't know if there's any relation or not.