[ETS/PARC List] Riley Hollingsworth retiring

[Ronald Loneker Sr.]

FCC amateur radio enforcement chief Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, has 
announced that he will retire from the Commission in early January. 
Hollingsworth has been in charge of FCC amateur rules enforcement since 
1998 and has held the title of Special Counsel for Amateur Radio since 
1999. He has spearheaded nearly a decade of revitalized FCC enforcement 
activities on the ham bands, after some 15 years of "benign neglect" by 
the Commission. Hollingsworth assured CQ that the FCC's active 
enforcement of amateur radio rules will continue even after his retirement.

Hollingsworth is a native of South Carolina and holds a Master's degree 
in political science from the University of South Carolina as well as a 
law degree from Wake Forest University Law School. Prior to taking the 
reins of amateur radio rules enforcement, Hollingsworth served in 
several other FCC positions, including Deputy Chief of Licensing and 
Assistant Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. He works out 
of the FCC's Gettysburg, Pennsylvania office.

That's not good news, as Riley has (IMHO) done a really fine job in that 
position, and the FCC will be hard-pressed to find anyone to fill his 
shoes half as well.....

73, Jerry K3BZ

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Ronald Loneker Sr.- KA2BZS
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