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(Personal Radio Assn., Inc - Huntingtown, MD) A PRA Enforcement Team member in Virginia made the Association aware of a serious GMRS abuse. A company specializing in parking lot call boxes marketed call boxes designed for use on GMRS radio frequencies. A system in Virginia was found at a local school that used 462.575 MHz, a GMRS repeater output channel. The PRA asked FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth to investigate. PRA Board of Trustees President Doug Smith referred to this practice as a serious and “pernicious abuse” of GMRS. GMRS licensees throughout the United States are encouraged to monitor GMRS in their communities and listen for and report these devices. Hollingsworth told the PRA that the FCC has information that the GMRS parking lot call boxes are no longer sold. Despite this information a new system was heard from atop a repeater site covering the area around Culpepper Virginia the weekend of November 17, 2007. PRA monitors said it sounded like a new parking lot call box system was being tested. GMRS licensees in the area are actively looking for the unlicensed system which is already causing interfernece to licensed users of the General Mobile Radio Service. GMRS licensees can report commercial intruders on GMRS channels directly to the FCC or through the program set up up by the Personal Radio Association at http://www.praweb.org.