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anyone following new non-comm CP apps in mass?

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kalimba

Lots of applications in this new filing window for 91.5, 90.1, and other heavily used frequencies. Anyone guessing what effect these apps will have on our existing non-comms in the eastern ma. area?
 
kalimba said:
Lots of applications in this new filing window for 91.5, 90.1, and other heavily used frequencies. Anyone guessing what effect these apps will have on our existing non-comms in the eastern ma. area?
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That all depends on how many of them get granted and actually go on the air. Probably only a small percentage, and many of them are mutually exclusive competing applications for the same frequencies in the same areas.
 
Scott Fybush said that he plans to examine every application in New England, NY State, NJ and PA and report the results on Northeast Radio Watch. Considering the number of application the FCC received, he should finish the job just before the icecap covering Greenland melts.
 
Total number of apps is 3630. Current.org has a handy list of all 270 "singleton" applications; app's that can be granted now because they're not conflicting with any other apps. There are no singletons in Mass, but surprisingly there is one in southwestern Rhode Island, plus a handful in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Connecticut.

Current also has a nice article about the overall situation. RECnet has a handy tool for searching these new applications.

Not surprising, competition was fierce for the tiny hole in Leominister/Fitchburg where a ~100 watt on 89.3 could fit, and also for 88.5 and 91.5 out on Cape Ann since both could do fairly large signals (approx. 3000 watts) and could almost reach Boston over the water. Although of course 91.5 won't be receivable in Boston thanks to WMFO and WMLN, and 88.5 would be a crapshoot thanks to WFCR, WERS and WMBR.

What really surprised me was the number of singletons in New York state. Granted, most are out west and way upstate, but given the huge number of applications across the southern Finger Lakes area (besides Ithaca, there ain't much out there) you'd think there wouldn't be any singletons, yet there are.

By the way, if there is a singleton you don't like, and you think their engineering is a load of BS (and there are MANY applications with faulty engineering) then you'll want to file a petition to deny ASAP...the 30 day window started on November 9th.
 
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