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Does anybody know the what is going on with the CP for 107.5? Seems like it is being held up for some reason.
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Gwinnett County has been making it difficult for Radio One to get the building permit, but the latest I heard is they expect to get it built just before the CP expires.
Can't you get "extra" time from the FCC on a CP if the delay is "caused by events not under your control"?
The delay is that the proposal, according to the FAA, would interfere with FAA navigation equipment...namely an Instrument Landing System. They have amended their application to specify lower power in one transmission plane (FM has vertical and horizontal radiation planes) than the other and the FAA has agreed to this change ot eliminate any "potential" Interference.secondchoice said:
They are going on an existing tower, so no local zoning issues were involved.
I could see that...there is an approach to Hartsfield that roughly parallels I-85. You can see the planes stacked up on Friday evening, especially after dark.artsutton said:
There is a cell phone tower that is about 2-3x as tall as an average cell tower at the location they are considering (where the "Gwinnett Is Great" water tanks used to be). I suppose they will be using that.
jabba17 said:
If it is an FAA issue I can understand the problem. BTW do not forget that this site is not that far from PDK which can be very busy at times.
artsutton said:
This will be interesting to watch.
They propose higher power in the vertical plane than in the horizontal.
The FCC does not ordinarily permit that in the commercial band above 92MHz. (nor below 92MHz if it isn't necessary to avoid interference to TV-6.) They've dismissed two recent applications that proposed higher power in the vertical plane -- one here in Nashville was probably a typo, but one out west - Arizona, I believe - requested a waiver for economic reasons. it was denied.
On the other hand, there is also precedent for the Commission waiving its policies when they collide with the FAA.
- They allowed the deletion of the only FM channel allotted to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee when the permittee proved there was no site the FAA would approve that would put a city-grade across all of Mt. Juliet. The allotment was moved to Belle Meade, on the other side of the airport.
- They refunded the money a company had spent to buy at auction an FM channel east of Omaha. The permittee showed there was no place the FAA would allow them to build the station that wouldn't interfere with some other existing station.
One should however note that the two cases above involve completely new stations. In 107.5's case, failure to waive the regulations wouldn't prevent the station from continuing to operate with their existing facilities.
artsutton said:
They might have changed their application since then, but several months ago, Vic Jester himself told me that Gwinnett County was taking forever to issue the permit. Yes, they're going on an existing tower, but modifications to the tower had to be made unless they've changed what they're doing. Issuing a permit is not a zoning issue, but like renovating a house, apparently one is needed to do whatever they were going to do with the tower.
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