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MARC Hosting Riley Hollingsworth K4DZH (Home)

MARC is hosting Riley Hollingsworth K4ZDH at the regular meeting on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 1900 which has been relocated to Pottermain Meeting Room, Paoli Hospital, 255 West Lancaster Avenue, Paoli PA (GPS: N40 02' 38'', W075 30' 06''). For interactive directions, see the Google Maps below.

Riley was Special Counsel for the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau and retired in 2008. In the opinion of many he was man who came to embody Amateur Radio Enforcement. At his retirement Riley said that he has "loved" working for the FCC and has "always had great jobs, but this one involving the Amateur Radio Service has been the most fun and I have enjoyed every day of it. I've worked with the best group of licensees on earth, enjoyed your support and tremendous FCC support and looked forward every day to coming to work. The Amateur Radio Enforcement program will continue without missing a beat, and after retirement I look forward to being involved with Amateur Radio every way I can. I thank all of you for being so dedicated and conscientious, and for the encouragement you give us every day."

Riley joined the Enforcement Program of the Compliance and Information Bureau in January 1998, as Legal Advisor for Enforcement. He was placed in charge of coordinating enforcement in the Amateur Services after that program was transferred to the Enforcement Bureau in October 1998. Riley then became Special Counsel with the new Enforcement Bureau and managed the Amateur Radio Service enforcement and the Land Mobile Service interference resolution programs.

Prior to joining the Enforcement Bureau Riley was an enforcement trial attorney and later Deputy Chief of Licensing and Assistant Bureau Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. In 1987, he managed the FCC 800 MHz Lottery Task Force in which the 800 MHz spectrum was assigned to 13 cities. He also organized the FCC's program in which underutilized radio channels were recovered for reassignment in major cities. In 1992, Riley participated as a Member of the Delegation from the US State Department to Bucharest, Romania, where radio licensing in the United States and opening foreign markets to American manufacturers were addressed. Riley was Co-Chairman for the FCC PCS Broadband and Narrowband Licensing Task Force in 1994.

Riley is Assistant Director of the Atlantic Division of the ARRL. He is a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association and was first licensed in 1960. Riley is now a CQ Magazine contributing editor with a monthly column "Riley's Ramblings" which covers legislative and administrative actions that affect Amateur Radio.

MARC Special Meeting Location - Google Maps
Pottermain Meeting Room  Paoli Hospital, Paoli PA

225 West Lancaster Avenue, Paoli PA 19031
GPS  N40 02' 38'', W075 30' 06"

After arriving at Paoli Hospital, free parking is available in the Visitor Parking Garage (bottom). Go to the ground floor of the garage and cross to the main entrance in the Pavilion (Zone A). Turn right to the Main Hospital (Zone B) and take the elevator down one flight to Floor G. Turn left down a short hallway and turn left again. Go past the Cafeteria (closed) and Medical Records to the next hallway. Turn right and the Pottermain Meeting Room is immediately on the left.