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I was attempting to complete form 1, with the basic station info, and all went well until I got to the co-ordinates. It says the format is incorrect and will not accept the form. Can anybody tell me just what the correct format is? There are no instructions in the manual or elswhere that gives this info. Please help! Thanks JBI
 
Had the same problem myself. I filled the form out like this, and it was accepted. This may or may not be correct, but it's the best I could do given there were no instructions for that specific entry.

example:

29.1622
94.5623
 
It's in decimal format. Leave it to the gov't to come up with such a great plan. Also, make sure you get your negitives and positives right. It's easy to get that wrong and put your coordinates in China, etc. I find this whole thing annoying, but more than anything lately, that they think stations are going to take the time to fill out some stupid form before the test. It's a sure sign how out-of-touch these guys are. Some stations are having a hard time even getting a contract engineer in to make sure their equipment works. Now there's a form that requires decimal coordinates and requests a FRN number. I belive I know what about 80 percent of the stations will do...
 
Give the Commission the single finger salute???

If you go to FCC.Gov then "previous site" then on the old site "search" (at the top of the page) you will then have the search page. At the left go to FM query. At the top of that page (above the bold FMQ heading) is a menu box where you can find a program to convert degree-minute-second coordinates to decimal (you need to scroll down a bit).

Now consider that you need to do this for each station. Six station cluster--six different form #1.

Now consider you can just wait until after the test and send in a written report. Which is easier?

Bureaucrats shot themselves in the foot on this one.

Idiots.
 
This is hard to fathom....the format requested is different from our license format...Go figure...is this an indication of the success of this whole excerise (in futility?) Sad...JBI
 
Just what I need. Spend the morning filling out online forms that will waste more taxpayer money just to make a multi-page report that doesn't accomplish anything.

9 years 7 months 'till retirement. If I make it.
 
The coordinate information is mostly useless anyway. The purpose of the report is to identify if station "X" received the EAN from Station "A." Most stations have the decoder at the studios.
Not the transmitter site. Unless, of course, you have a combined site.

As a practical matter, many transmitter sites in our area don't have internet connections--and will likely never will, unless someone installs a wi-fi system. So it makes no sense to have a "CAP-compliant" decoder at the transmitter site.
 
Boise: Don't be too sure...I was scheduled to go out at 65...I am still here at 72...nothing is for sure anymore...except the federal deficit...and soon...unbelievable inflation...hang on!
 
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