Florida radio ham cleared by FCC

A Florida radio ham has told Amateur Radio Newsline that he has cleared up an interference complaint filed against him with the FCC. Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, reports:

As reported a few weeks ago, Raymond W. Czyzewski, Jr, WA2SEI, of Interlachen, had been sent notification by the FCC of a complaint that he interfered with operations on the Six Meter Amateur band back on June 19th. The person filing the charge also enclosed what was described as a threatening communication allegedly sent by Czyzewski to the complainant subsequent to the incident.

But WA2SEI has a different version of the story and the FCC seems to believe him. He says that he says that had been on the same frequency for close to 6 hours. During that time he had worked over 100 grid squares. Then, as is the case with 6 meters, conditions suddenly shifted and a station came on the air and rather rudely demanded that he move.

Czyzewski refused and the station reappeared using what can best be called 11 meter CB language asking WA2SEI for his - quote -"personal" and his "20." For those of you who have never bothered to tune to 11 meters, that translates into asking Czyzewski for his name and address. Czyzewski freely admits that the situation escalated into some name calling and to an exchange of e-mails.

Czyzewski says that he should have let it all just go, but after decades operating on the 6 meter band he was not going to let a newcomer who obviously did not know or understand the bands etiquette run him off the air. So he was a bit surprised to hear from the FCC's Riley Hollingsworth about the issue.

It seems the unidentified complainant forwarded his e-mail exchange with WA2SEI to the regulatory agency along with a letter of complaint. Czyzewski who suffers from both Diabetes and Parkenson's disease very quickly contacted Hollingsworth and explained the other half of the story. He tells Newsline that after listening for a while to his explanation, it was quickly a matter of - case closed.

As to whom the complaining station was, Czyzewski would not say. So right now the only others who know his or her identify is the FCC.

Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF
Amateur Radio Newsline
Los Angeles

By the way, we checked with the FCC. It says that WA2SEI's explanation was accepted by the agency.

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