Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] WWDX, was Re: KQNK-1530 on late with K-State basketball
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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] WWDX, was Re: KQNK-1530 on late with K-State basketball



On 11/14/2011 4:33 PM, Earl Higgins wrote:
What's even stranger; if you go to
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Facility_id=54829
and click on the first record (the only one dated 2011), they applied
for, and apparently were granted, Special Temporary Authority to be
silent earlier this year due to technical problems. I don't see any
further correspondence indicating they have returned to the air. So
apparently, not only are they a daytime station with no nighttime
authority, they aren't even currently supposed to be on the air AT
ALL.

A "silent STA" allows a station to be off the air, but does not mandate that it remain off the air.

It's possible (and not uncommon) for a station to request silent STA and then notify the FCC verbally that it has returned to the air. It may not be reflected in CDBS, and it may be annoying to us as DXers trying to figure out who's on and who's off, but it's kosher nonetheless in the eyes of the FCC.

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