FCCA News

KEEP YOUR 4.9 GHz LICENSE:

Did you know that if you don’t relicense your 4.9 GHz license by June 9, 2025, you will lose your license. Read the public notice from the FCC here.

FCCA will be happy to assist you in relicensing your system to ensure that you preserve it. Contact us now. 

SAFECOM:

A reminder that FCCA participates in SAFECOM (https://www.cisa.gov/safecom)

Our President Lloyd Mitchell is the vice chair of the funding and sustainment committee, and Anton Damm is our alternate member.

In MEMORIAM:

The FCCA regrets to announce that FCCA Vice President Joseph William Schaefer, 64, died October 23, 2021, at his home.
Joseph retired from the United States Air Force after 21 years of service and had been with the Virginia Department of Forestry for over 20 years.  He was a volunteer EMT for Louisa County for many years.  

Joseph William Schaefer Palmyra, Virginia Obituary

 

SERVICE AWARD:

The FCCA board is pleased to award Janet Muncy the ‘Max Guiberson Award of Merit’.  This award is given in recognition of meritorious service to FCCA from 1999-2020.  The presentation was made at the 2021 FCCA board meeting in conjunction with our attendance at IWCE.

Janet’s FCCA work greatly contributed to the ongoing success of FCCA and we will miss her.

 

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