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Telling the FCC you went back on the air and you are not.

I have no idea idea if they have put a signal on the air or not. I did call them and someone there said they were on air with a low power signal and waiting for delivery of a new transmitter. They told me their antenna is mounted on a tree at about 70'. I know the area, I used to live there- there are plenty of trees in excess of 70' on private estates there so thats believable. In the past I've heard stations that were on air only for a couple days to fulfill FCC requirement and then go silent again. Kind of a silly rule - like who's to say if a tree fell in the woods if no one was there to witness. I know nothing about the licensee. No matter who they are - it's not hard to be far more credible than what goes on with LPFMs in Hanford.
 
The regulatory constraints put on the LPFM service are, by design, as dictated by Big Media, just a recipe for failure.
 
There can be some debate as to whether LPFMs are subject to some of the same regs as full powers - this may be corrected in an upcoming rulemaking.
For example, LPFMs had NOT been required to file a report when they went silent (though it is good practice).

As for signing on at low power, as long as it is within the parameters of their license, it's legal. If not the station should file a request for a Special Temporary Authority (STA). That's commonly done, for example, for weather related (and other) outages expected to last longer than 10 days or so.
 
I have no idea idea if they have put a signal on the air or not. I did call them and someone there said they were on air with a low power signal and waiting for delivery of a new transmitter. They told me their antenna is mounted on a tree at about 70'. I know the area, I used to live there- there are plenty of trees in excess of 70' on private estates there so thats believable. In the past I've heard stations that were on air only for a couple days to fulfill FCC requirement and then go silent again. Kind of a silly rule - like who's to say if a tree fell in the woods if no one was there to witness. I know nothing about the licensee. No matter who they are - it's not hard to be far more credible than what goes on with LPFMs in Hanford.

haha! Beautiful.
 
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