K4ZDH
to be honored
3/22/06
Hamvention®
2006 Special Achievement Award
Riley
Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, received the Special Achievement Award for his efforts in
helping eliminate some of the problems that had been increasing on the ham
bands. As his nominator stated, he helped "reverse an
almost a decade and a half long period of Commission inattention and government
apathy directed at our service. Hams across the US credit Hollingsworth with
helping to reduce -- and in many cases to eliminate malicious interference and
other problem behavior, both on and off the air."
Hollingsworth
is a Special Counsel for the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s Spectrum Enforcement
Division. He was given the responsibility for coordination of Amateur Radio
Service enforcement after that program was transferred to the Enforcement Bureau
in October 1998. His responsibilities also include interference resolution in
the Land Mobile and Public Safety Services.
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Hollingsworth was
Co-Chairman of the FCC’s PCS Broadband and Narrowband Licensing Task Force,
for which he received as “Reinventing Government” Award in 1994; and managed
the FCC’s 800 MHz Task Force in which new 800 MHz spectrum was assigned in 13
cities. He also organized the FCC’s enforcement program in
which underutilized land mobile radio channels were recovered for reassignment
in major cities.
Hollingsworth holds a
Master’s degree from the University of South Carolina, and a Law degree from
Wake Forest University. An Amateur Radio licensee since 1960,
he is a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association and FISTS Club.
(the above information was borrowed from the HamVention web
site - http://www.hamvention.org/media/06SAA.htm)