[BC] LP Radio broadcaster wins

[Neal Newman]

  I have been following this thread a bit.
  a few things bother me about this...
  a newspaper article said he quoted that his stations tower was less 
than 100 feet and it was setup like an amateur station. so its not a 
telecomunications tower  which are much taller.
   He also stated that his neighbor across the street who is an 
amateur radio operator can have the same type tower and the city was 
not busting his horns..
I feel this is the game of telephone where information was crossed.
  Now as for the calls KVTS  being licensed to the next town of republic
  this is no big deal as long as the transmitter is at the correct 
lat and Long.
  My LPFM is licensed to the city of Arrowhead Village, NJ
  The city was merged into a larger township of Brick, and no longer 
exists  yet its still on U.S. Survey maps. So the FCC licensed it.

  The one item that really bother me about his operation.
  He said he lowered the tower by 20 feet to make the city happy..  I 
thought you can only move an antenna plus /minus  3 meters( about 9 
feet) without filing for a Minor change.  Either that or he had the 
antenna at the wrong height in the first place?.
The license states that the antenna is an SWR FM-1/1
  and thats exactly what it looked like at the top of the tower..
  however an older version of the antenna.
  SWR  now make the antenna a litle Different.. I know I have a few 
of them at some non-comms..
  Neal

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Blake Bowers <bbowers at mozarks.com> wrote:

 > On the other side of the fence, I have a problem with him
 > being able to skirt the rules, espically when he tries to do
 > it under the "amateur" guise.  If you want to run a radio station,
 > then do it, but don't try to BS me.
 >
 > I am offering whatever assistance I can to the city attorney.
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
 > > Good for him!
 > > It's nice to see a 'lttle guy' win in the Battlefield
 > (pun intended) of opression.
 > >
 > > From: "Blake Bowers" <bbowers at mozarks.com>
 > > http://www.kspr.com/news/local/63160462.html