Re: [IRCA] Short check of the AM Band
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Re: [IRCA] Short check of the AM Band



Unfortunately the Mexican data is really bad (lots of stations on the wrong frequency) and could lead to bad allocation decisions.  On the plus side, it does allow us to spot which DXers are list-logging.  More than one DXer has made the embarrassing mistake of logging a fictitious station like XENVA2 which only exists in these highly inaccurate government databases.  

The FCC should contract the whole thing out to Fred Cantu if they want to get it right - probably save some money too ;)

73 Tim
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:20:22 
To:TimHall1@xxxxxxxxx, Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Short check of the AM Band


timhall1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Some years ago I tried to do this with the erroneous Mexican entries
> in the FCC database.  They sent back a snarky reply saying they were
> only allowed to accept corrections from the foreign government
> involved.  73 Tim Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

That's correct. Because the foreign entries in the CDBS database are 
there specifically for international coordination by US licensees, they 
pretty much have to be updated only by those governments.

The data does get updated occasionally - for the longest time, the entry 
for CKOC 1150 Hamilton in the FCC data was under "CKMO," for the 
short-lived callsign the station had been using the last time its record 
was updated, in 1992. At some point in the last year or two, the correct 
calls started showing again. My guess is that someone got confused about 
the 1150 Hamilton record and the record for the current holder of the 
CKMO calls, 900 in Victoria, and a call was made from Washington to 
Ottawa to straighten things out.

s

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