[BC] Reasonable transmitter coordinates

[Mark Bohnett]

Gary

We had an outside company file for 6 frequencies "mobile stations" on 
our tower site.  They were granted by the FCC and we didn't know they 
existed.  This company then approached us and asked us to allow them to 
place six system in our building "UNTIL" they could build on our site.  
They promised us Backup Generation support, an expansion of our present 
building ( with bells and whistles) and the beefing up of our tower, not 
to mention a great price/foot rate for rent. 

Our GM allowed the 6 units in the building (not really know if anything 
would come of it).  At least one transmitter had to be operational by a 
given date.  They then paid is about $200.00 per month UNTIL they could 
get the site plan completed, approved and constructed.   On my work 
bench they placed six transmitters with licenses.  They turned one on 
and had a magnetic antenna hang from a metal beam in the building.  Took 
pictures and ... that was the last we saw of them.

Short Story:  They sold the six frequencies to a local company and quite 
paying rent.  We pulled the plug and boxed up the transmitters.  The 
company that bought the frequencies showed up about a year later to 
claim their equipment.  We got about 6 months a rent for one unit to be 
plugged in and a lot of promises BUT nothing else.

Mark (Maryland)

Gary Peterson wrote:
> " I just love it when you read the translator applications and find one
> for your town, then you look at the tower coordinates, and it's on
> *your* tower! How'd they do that?!?!
> -- 
> Douglas B. Pritchett "
>
> During license renewal of one of our FMs, it was discovered that a 
> LPTV had
> been issued a CP on our tower.  We had never been contacted by the LPTV
> licensee and had no previous knowledge of the CP.  The tower will,
> structurally, not accommodate any more antennas and feedlines.  
> However, the
> impact of the virtual RF from this non-existent station had to be 
> factored
> into our RF exposure calculations.  I've seen plenty of translator
> applications that specify locations where I know they could never be 
> built.
>
> I liked it much better when the Commission required certification of
> "reasonable assurance" that the site was available.  I remember an
> application that was dismissed because the site coordinates were in the
> middle of a cemetery.  The applicant had certified that he had reasonable
> assurance that the specified location could be bought or leased. The 
> manager
> (if that's the proper term) of the cemetery was more than happy to sign a
> notarized letter that he wouldn't allow a 500 ft. tower in the middle 
> of the
> grave markers and had never been contacted by the applicant for the 
> CP.  It
> seems to me that it would save the Commission processing time if they 
> didn't
> have to deal with so many modifications to CP's.  I've seen stations 
> in as
> many as three different locations before they were constructed.
>
> Gary, K?CX
> CE KFXS, KOUT, KKMK, KRCS, KKLS & KBHB
>
>
>
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