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Moving an lpfm

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Hello,

I got a situation. The building where our station is located got sold and we need to move the station. We applied to move like 2 miles down the road and got dismissed by the fcc. We found another location less than a 1/4 mile. Do I need to apply again? Or can move without an approval? Is there a grace distance on the location? Sorry for our ignorance but our only engineer is costing us a lot of money for just talking to us. I appreciate any help.

Thanks
 
Have you tried leasing the rooftop space from the new owner? Most building owners don't care about what's on the roof.
You can move the studio anywhere.
 
Flying-Dutchman said:
LPFM applications are very simple to fill out. I can file them over my lunch hour and not miss my lunch.
What station are you talking about? I will take a look.

This link may be helpful. http://www.lpfm.ws/move/
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Info send to your flyingdutchman100 at hotmail dot com address.

Thanks
 
I have received your info. Other stations have moved in on you and caused your LPFM to be short spaced.
They are to your north-west and south-west. You should find a new site to the east. The FCC will allow
you to continue to be short spaced. But, you must not increase the short spacing. A friends back yard
and a TV tower could work. I will be in touch.
 
Just don't do what I did.. Do the electronic form at 3 in the morning while doing another station's minor-mod.. Got the licensee info backwards.... Let them kick back... Ooops... The FCC folks were laughing with me.. I, too, have a move problem.. The DOT put an I-69 expansion office in the college building and wants us OUT, due to security.. Sure enough, the tree-huggers broke in and vandalized the offices (but lucky they did not find the x-mitter stuff).. They threw out computers and files... The space is still leased but vacated by the DOT... Now the building will be taken down... In the meantime a non-com group files for multiple frequencies down the road 12 miles west..ONE ON OUR FREQUENCY for a translator.. Accepted for filing, it bumped our request for a free tower space (not many in our small town)... I will attempt to plea a case in that we hope our non-com friends get one of the four frequencies they want in the county seat, but why nail us, as we are on a heavy co-channel with a 50kw 85 miles west of us... I might ask for a STA (Special Test Authority) at that location until they determine if the co-channel translator will be approved or one of the other frequencies for that group... My other attempt, if that falls through is to ask for an STA (Special Test Authority) based on the proposed dropping of the third channel adjacent rules.. Move to the frequency that would work under those proposed rule changes.... If the FCC and Congress does not make the change, then we can move back.. We have a changable frequency transmitter and the antenna can be adjusted or get a new broadband NiCOM for 800 bucks.....
 
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