[BC] Gaming the FCC process

[Mark Humphrey]

That's correct.  If you know how to play the "307(b) preference" game
and can show a sufficient margin of new first or second NCE service on
paper, the point factors aren't even considered.

A friend of mine, who is very skilled at this, recently prevailed over
several other applicants in an MX group not far from here by proposing
a 15 dB front-to-back DA which will throw 7500 watts of
vertical-polarized energy (oh, and 1 watt horizontal) directly into
the south face of Blue Mountain which is only 4 miles away.  The
predicted 60 dBu contour covers more "white and gray area" on the back
side of the mountain than the other contenders for the channel, so he
won.  But the population he really hopes to serve is in the mininum of
the pattern.  I expect the multipath from this thing to be horrendous,
but it only needs to stay that way for four years.

As Dana would say, this is *so* FCC, but if you don't take advantage
of all the legal tricks, you'll usually come out the loser.

Mark

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Urban, Brian L <burban at kut.org> wrote:
> EXCEPT if you look at the CP awards coming out of the Commission from the 2007 window, you'll find that number of licenses and pending applications is the LAST thing looked at in awarding MX applications.  Most CPs are awarded long before the number of licenses becomes a factor.
>