[BC] Question re: old RPU license

[Rob Landry]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Alan Gearing wrote:

> By Report and Order, ET Docket No. 02-16, FCC 03-39 [adopted February
> 25, 2003, and released March 3, 2003] the Commission deleted the
> frequencies 1606 kHz, 1622 kHz, and 1646 kHz from § 74.402(a)(1). They
> are no longer authorized for (at least new) RPU station operations. I
> haven't read the full report and order in a long time, so its possible
> existing licenses at the time of the change were grandfathered in some
> way. Or, the "active" listing in the current WTB database may just be
> another indication of how unreliable the Commission station databases
> can sometimes be - especially when it comes to broadcast auxiliary
> stations.

It is not just in the database; my client has an actual piece of paper 
issued by the Commission in the year 2000 with 1.622 MHz on it.

> The R&O does contain this statement "...there are currently no
> Public Safety or remote pickup licensees operating in the AM Expanded
> Band".

Evidently the R&O was in error. I wonder how many more of these are out 
there.

Rob