Re:AVAILABLE FM FREQUENCIES IN THE ATLANTA METRO AREA
You also have to look at frequencies either side of the "vacant" frequencies, both one (first-adjacent) and two (second-adjacent) away, for any existing usage. You also have to look at third-adjacents but probably not for the kind of station I assume you're considering (a small class A), as long as you're not that close to the third-adjacent station. I'm not sure what the rules are for LPFM, but I am assuming they are similar.
At a very high nontechnical level and applying some rules of thumb, you pretty much can't use a frequency immediately next door to an operating station unless the other station is also a small (class A) station on the other side of town (see 102.3 and 102.5, or 105.1 and 105.3). You'd have more flexibility for the stations "two doors down" (see 105.3 and 105.7) and even more "three doors down".
Bigger stations have to stay farther apart both in terms of geography and frequency. Smaller ones not so much, but even the small ones can't encroach on an existing station one to three doors up or down. That's probably to your benefit, since big will interfere with small more than small will interfere with big.
Now, if you can find a way to put a class A on or near a translator frequency, I think the FCC will give you the right of way over the translator, but I am not sure. Translators can accept interference from "real" stations (as long as they don't cause it), but class A's cannot, so they have less flexibility. I don't think a LPFM can get right of way over a translator--they fall in the same bag where a "real" station has priority.
Now, go find a frequency. Good luck and bring cash.
