Federal Communications Commission	DA 18-534



Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554

In the Matter of

ZAYNE G. STITES

Licensee of Amateur Service Station KI7JFD
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ORDER OF MODIFICATION

   Adopted:  May 21, 2018		Released:  May 22, 2018

By the Deputy Chief, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:

1. Introduction.  In this Order of Modification, we modify the operator privileges of Zayne G. Stites (Stites), licensee of Amateur Radio Service Station KI7JFD, by replacing General Class operator privileges with Technician Class operator privileges.  As explained below, we take this action pursuant to an earlier order proposing to modify Stites’s license. See Zayne G. Stites, Order Proposing Modification, DA 18-362 (WTB MD rel. Apr. 12, 2018) (Order Proposing Modification).


2. Background.  On March 7, 2017, the American Radio Relay League Volunteer-Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC) sent an electronic data file to the Commission requesting that Stites’s operator license for amateur Station KI7JFD be modified to upgrade from Technician Class to General Class amateur radio operator privileges. See File No. 0007688828 (filed Mar. 7, 2017). 
  Based on this application, the Commission granted Stites a General n Class amateur service operator license on March 7, 2017.  This license authorizes Stites to be the control operator of an amateur station transmitting on frequency bands authorized by section 97.301(d) of our rules. See 47 CFR § 97.301(b).
  

3. By correspondence dated April 11, 2018, ARRL VEC notified the Commission that it had made an error in the March 7, 2017, data file and that Stites had not qualified for a General Class operator license. E-mail from Amanda Grimaldi, VEC Assistant Manager, ARRL VEC, to Rebecca Williams et al. (Apr. 11, 2018 12:12 p.m.).
  Therefore, ARRL VEC urged us to modify Studer’s license to correct the operator privileges authorized.  Consequently, we proposed to modify the license for Station KI7JFD to show Technician Class operator privileges. See Order Proposing Modification, DA 18-362, para. 8.  

	
4. Discussion.  The Order Proposing Modification was released on April 12, 2018.  Stites did not protest the proposed modification of his license within the requisite thirty-day time frame. See 47 CFR § 1.87(g)(1).
  Accordingly, Stites is deemed to have consented to the proposed modification. See 47 CFR § 1.87(h).
  Based on the record before us, we conclude that it is in the public interest to modify Stites’s license for Station KI7JFD by replacing General Class operator privileges with Technician Class operator privileges.

5. Conclusion and Ordering Clauses.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to sections 4(i) and 316(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 316(a), and section 1.87 of Commission’s rules, 47 CFR § 1.87, the license for Amateur Radio Service Station KI7JFD BE MODIFIED by replacing General Class operator privileges with Technician Class operator privileges.

6. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order of Modification shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to Zayne G. Stites, 14678 SW Peak Ct., Portland, OR  97224. 

7. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 CFR §§ 0.131, 0.331.

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				Scot Stone
					Deputy Chief, Mobility Division
						Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
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