TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8741 SUBJECT: VLA radio observation of GRB 081221 DATE: 08/12/27 20:13:00 GMT FROM: Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO Poonam Chandra (RMC) and Dale A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of the Caltech-NRAO-Carnegie GRB Collaboration: "We used the Very Large Array to observe the field of view toward GRB 081221 (GCN 8687) at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on 2008 Dec 27.14 UT. The GRB radio afterglow is undetected at 3-sigma level. However, there is a 2.5 sigma source (97 +/- 38 uJy) at the Gemini optical afterglow position reported by Tanvir et al. (GCN 8698). The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc."