Re: [IRCA] Expanded-Band Owner Objects to AM Surrender Plan

[John Sampson <jnsampson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it was five years.  As I remember, after the five year period, the station either had to revert to its original allocation or move to the X-band and take the original station off the air.   Also, I think that the original purpose of the X-band was to mitigate interference on the regular band and give some stations an opportunity to get rid of expensive directional arrays as well as boosting their coverage.  I believe that several of the X-band stations (Redding, California, and Brigham City, Utah, come to mind) actually followed the original guidelines.  Omaha took the 1180 station off the air for a couple of years but then somehow reactivated the 1180 frequency, obviously with the FCC's approval.  I agree with Russ, it's another case where the FCC didn't follow its original guidelines (but what else is new!).




On Feb 24, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

> Trying to change the rules you knew were part of the deal at the time.
> 
> The real problem here is that the FCC - typically - ignored that part of
> the deal - the surrenders were supposed to take place
> on a much shorter time limit, although I don't recall exactly what it was.
> 
> Russ Edmunds
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> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> http://www.radioworld.com/article/expanded-band-owner-objects-to-am-surrender-plan/278222
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