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Incident of unlicensed operation in 2014 is insufficient for FCC to deny the CP

Nearly 20 years ago, WHUM-LP found a valuable commercial channel and went to the trouble to get it allotted for Columbus Indiana. So that we could upgrade But, another party got the CP. They didn't have the funds to build even though they checked the box saying they did.
The unbuilt station was licensed as WGPI. The FCC meanwhile caught on that WGPI was never on the air and the license was cancelled.

Meanwhile a pirate station comes on the air stealing the call letters WGPI and the frequency 93.5. After three weeks of pirate radio, FCC agent Jim Roop makes a 400 mile round trip to Columbus and shuts down the pirate.

But this was not the first case. Prior to the Columbus operation the same guy was programming Spanish on WJCF in Morristown.
WJCF gets notified they are running commercials in the educational band. A Spanish broadcaster in Indianapolis complained to the FCC. The licensee of WJCF determined the commercials were not coming from their transmitter. Instead, the commercials were on a pirate station on Indianapolis west side. The pirate was stealing 88.1 and the WJCF call letters.

The pirate was not Sergio from Mexico. Now we have to deal with this guy again because the FCC gave him a CP on our 2nd adjacent channel. We believe a high power pirate transmitter will be causing us harm as soon as tonight.

We were cheated out of 93.5 and a pirate stole the frequency. Now he will blanket us out in the very part of town where many of our donors live. And there are numerous channels in Columbus that would have worked for a new LPFM.
We can't just keep quiet about this.
 
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As for 93.5 in Columbus Indiana. It is on the Table of Allocations as a vacant Class A channel. We wanted to upgrade. Anyway here we are on 98.5 as a LPFM. We have been on the air 20 years in May.

Here's a listen live link WHUM Radio
 
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