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When will the FCC just allow 90.1 in Austin have call letters?

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jras20

Just wondering, are they just going to have this station going on and on with no license what so ever?
 
The FCC doesn't care much...

Is 91.1 still on up there too?
 
jras20 said:
Just wondering, are they just going to have this station going on and on with no license what so ever?
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Not living in TX, and assuming that you are referring to a pirate, drop by down here in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale. As a DXer I'd be thrilled with only ONE pirate...try 15 to 20 :)

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Fred, I'm tellin' ya', it doesn't have time for stuff like that, not with all those illegal XM transmitters in cars all over the country! ;D

After all, what's theft of the airwaves, when you can hear 40s on 40 in the next car at a stoplight!

LATER: Just went to their website. I wonder if the FCC has any PSAs it would like to upload to run on the station. ::) Maybe in the middle of the eight hours of Alex Jones (shudder!) it runs daily.
 
I can receive 90.1 for a short distance down 38th near Lamar. I have tuned into the Power Hour before.

Unless the station is causing substansial and harmful interference, I doubt the FCC will continue to prosue this. They should give 90.1 amnesty and assign call letters of course with stipulations. Is 90.1 hurting the adjacent frequencies, if so how?

Now if a pirate was on say 103.3 that would be substansial.
 
willdav713 said:
I can receive 90.1 for a short distance down 38th near Lamar. I have tuned into the Power Hour before.

Unless the station is causing substansial and harmful interference, I doubt the FCC will continue to prosue this. They should give 90.1 amnesty and assign call letters of course with stipulations. Is 90.1 hurting the adjacent frequencies, if so how?

Now if a pirate was on say 103.3 that would be substansial.
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Why not? Because each and every other pirate in the entire country could then demand the same treatment...and would have cause to do so in court. It would be the end of what little authority the FCC has...or chooses to exercise.
 
willdav713 said:
Unless the station is causing substansial and harmful interference, I doubt the FCC will continue to prosue this. They should give 90.1 amnesty and assign call letters of course with stipulations. Is 90.1 hurting the adjacent frequencies, if so how?
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Don't forget the 90.1 pirate is a commercial operation which is not allowed below FM 92.1
 
Well....I guess if minor details such as a license are not important to you, then the little matter of selling commercials in a non-com band won't matter either.

I wish we still had an FCC.
 
mmnassour said:
Well....I guess if minor details such as a license are not important to you, then the little matter of selling commercials in a non-com band won't matter either.

I wish we still had an FCC.
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It is all up to discretion, just like with a speeding ticket. You don't expect every time someone goes a couple of miles over the speed limit to get pulled over and ticketed, do you?

Personally, I wish the FCC would crack down harder on those prerecorded messages to cell phones which are also illegal.

Is there a private right of action when it comes to operating a station without a license somewhere in the code too?
 
willdav713 said:
mmnassour said:
Well....I guess if minor details such as a license are not important to you, then the little matter of selling commercials in a non-com band won't matter either.

I wish we still had an FCC.
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It is all up to discretion, just like with a speeding ticket. You don't expect every time someone goes a couple of miles over the speed limit to get pulled over and ticketed, do you?

Personally, I wish the FCC would crack down harder on those prerecorded messages to cell phones which are also illegal.

Is there a private right of action when it comes to operating a station without a license somewhere in the code too?
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If a guy with a Ramsey FM100 and an amp is a speeding ticket....90.1 in Austin is Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Discretion? The FCC has busted this group before, seized equipment, fined them over $10,000 and they still come back on the air. And for some reason this time the FCC appears to look the other way.

I don't get it. All I know is that the best frequency for my FM30 is spewing 1001 reasons why we should sell our clothes and buy gold.
 
mmnassour said:
willdav713 said:
mmnassour said:
Well....I guess if minor details such as a license are not important to you, then the little matter of selling commercials in a non-com band won't matter either.

I wish we still had an FCC.
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It is all up to discretion, just like with a speeding ticket. You don't expect every time someone goes a couple of miles over the speed limit to get pulled over and ticketed, do you?

Personally, I wish the FCC would crack down harder on those prerecorded messages to cell phones which are also illegal.

Is there a private right of action when it comes to operating a station without a license somewhere in the code too?
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If a guy with a Ramsey FM100 and an amp is a speeding ticket....90.1 in Austin is Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Discretion? The FCC has busted this group before, seized equipment, fined them over $10,000 and they still come back on the air. And for some reason this time the FCC appears to look the other way.

I don't get it. All I know is that the best frequency for my FM30 is spewing 1001 reasons why we should sell our clothes and buy gold.
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Another issue is budget, and the costs of enforcement. You are talking about a lot of money, and the FCC is subject to downsizing. Our country is still in a financial crisis. I think they are worried about more important things. If they are for profit how come they except donations for the station?
 
According to the stations website, KDX1 and KDX2 operate as a Part 15 station and do not exceed the limits.

Sometimes you can hear stations past their city of license, what you are talking about here, can be described as a case of that. Remember they are two sides to every case, the Plaintiff and the Defendant.

I suggest you watch The Communicators on C-SPAN where they interview just about all things FCC. I think it comes on at 7pm CST?
 
willdav713 said:
Another issue is budget, and the costs of enforcement. You are talking about a lot of money, and the FCC is subject to downsizing. Our country is still in a financial crisis. I think they are worried about more important things. If they are for profit how come they except donations for the station?
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There's no reason a for-profit can't accept donations. Hell, KVET-FM could ask for donations. But if you have a single commercial advertising anything for which you take a payment, then you're a for profit station. It's like being pregnant, there's no such thing as "a little bit".

As for the FCC, keeping the airwaves organized was the precise reason its predecessor, the FRC, was created. The FCC not keeping the airwaves legal is like a car dealer saying he's got better things to do than sell cars. But yes, I do understand what you're saying. Shoot, I may just call up Ramsey and order a 100w box myself! ;D


willdav713 said:
According to the stations website, KDX1 and KDX2 operate as a Part 15 station and do not exceed the limits.

Sometimes you can hear stations past their city of license, what you are talking about here, can be described as a case of that. Remember they are two sides to every case, the Plaintiff and the Defendant.

I suggest you watch The Communicators on C-SPAN where they interview just about all things FCC. I think it comes on at 7pm CST?
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Thanks for the tip on "The Communicators", I was unaware of it, will catch it. However, if we're talking about 90.1 here in Austin, this station has a long and ugly history of running well in excess of 100mw. Please show me another legal Part 15 station that can be heard from south of the River on MoPac to well north of 183. We're not talking about some 16 year old kid with a hot Ramsey kit. This group has been illegal for years, shut down once, and is back. It has become obvious that, for whatever reason, the FCC is no longer interested in Pirates....at least in Texas.
 
I was told a year or so ago by someone very close to it that the house with the signs on MoPac is NOT where the station is located. My understanding is that it has been located out in Westlake somewhere.
 
Height is everything. But it sounds pretty solid to me in south Austin and St. Eds is the highest spot in the city limits. Maybe down here somewhere.
 
I am about 30 or so miles south of Austin, all of my radios have no problem picking them up. My directional antenna picks up KSYM a lot of the time, but I have it going towards San antonio.
 
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