Attachment SoundOfLifeLtr

SoundOfLifeLtr

LETTER submitted by Sound of Life

Letter to FCC explaining circumstances regarding expiration of prior authorization

2007-02-13

This document pretains to SES-STA-20070208-00202 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2007020800202_551494

PO Box 777 199 Tuytenbridge Road Lake Katrine, NY 12449 {Office) 800—724—8518 (Fax) 845—336—7205 www.Soundoflife.org February 13, 2007 Scott Kotler, Chief System Analysis Branch Federal Communications Commission 445 12"" Street, N.W., Room 6—C411, Portals II Washington D.C. 20554 Dear Mr. Kotler: This is written to explain the events which led to the expiration of the earth station licensed to Sound of Life, Inc. (SES—LIC—19951017—00299), and the action taken once the fact was discovered. We hope that these facts will be considered if the Commission ever considers imposing a penalty against us for the expiration of the authorization. Sound of Life‘s earth station authorization was obtained and its satellite program transmission facilities have at all times been maintained by a third party contractor. Due to the technical nature of the satellite facilities and the lack of any expertise in this area on the part of any person in our organization, we were dependent upon our contractor to maintain the facilities and authorization. Sound of Life recently decided to retain a new contractor, Ka You Communications, which advised us that the authorization had expired. We have received no communication from the Commission in this regard, and self—reported the expiration of the authorization, by means of a request for an STA filed on February 8, 2007. Pursuant to instruction received from the International Bureau, we are in the process of preparing (through our new contractor, Ka You), an application for a new authorization for these same facilities. Our organization is a small, non—profit educational entity with limited resources. We responded to the expiration of the authorization as quickly as practicably possible after we learned of it, and have been assured that our new contractor will not permit a reoccurrence of this unintentional oversight. We would appreciate it if the Commission would take our self—reporting, our cirecumstances, and prompt effort to correct our inadvertent failure into account to the extent that it may consider imposing any penalties upon us at some later date. Respectfully submitted/ _——]_ Tom Michaels Zahradnik General Manager Reaching The Heart of the Northeast


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