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Re: [IRCA] KABN (Re: Halp!)
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] KABN (Re: Halp!)
- From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:04:24 -0500
At 03:14 AM 12/9/2005, you wrote:
>To get an X Bander, you have to have an already exsisting station
>and just because you apply, doesn't mean youll get one.
To get an X-bander, you have to have applied years ago - as in 1993
or thereabouts. The FCC has so far had just one window for X-band
applications - when the band first opened, they asked interested
licensees for "expressions of interest" in the X-band. Only class A
and B stations (no class D ex-daytimers, no class C graveyarders)
could get on the list.
The FCC then went through and evaluated the list to see which of the
stations on it caused the most nighttime skywave interference to
other stations, creating a list of X-band moves designed to reduce
skywave interference on the "old" AM band. (That's why the Cs and Ds
weren't eligible - officially, they create no skywave interference to
other stations!)
Trouble is, the list ended up being top-heavy with stations that
already had a pretty good set of night facilities - 940 in Fresno and
980 in Troy NY, for instance. There was no way they were going to
give up their existing night signals for an X-band move, but there
they were on the list, with no provisions for reassigning those
X-band allocations to other stations if they didn't want them. The
list also made little attempt to create any sort of geographic
balance, so all of New England ended up with just one X-band
allocation, which went unused in the end.
The FCC's been in no hurry at all to open another window for new
X-band apps, and they've pretty much acknowledged that it ranks very
low on their list of priorities these days.
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