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Greater Houston FCC notices

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First Fone 65

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:cool: K223CW 92.5 license to cover. KRUT-LP 94.9 License to cover. K273CW 102.5 informal objection with impacted listener statements. KJJB 95.3 Oct 5th 2016 STA request Dismissed.

Hope fully this passes muster with The RADIO DISCUSSIONS POLICE. official FCC filings which can be verified.
 
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First Fone 65 said:
KJJB 95.3 Oct 5th 2016 STA request Dismissed.
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What was the requested, dismissed STA supposed to cover? Judging from the published history of this station, it appears to have existed for several years as a construction permit, which apparently changed hands a number of times. All the while the community of license was apparently deprived of the very program service the station was supposed to deliver.

What do you know about KIPS-LD?
 
robertsez said:
What was the requested, dismissed STA supposed to cover? Judging from the published history of this station, it appears to have existed for several years as a construction permit, which apparently changed hands a number of times. All the while the community of license was apparently deprived of the very program service the station was supposed to deliver.

What do you know about KIPS-LD?
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We know that's not a houston station
 
robertsez said:
What was the requested, dismissed STA supposed to cover?
What do you know about KIPS-LD?
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:cool:The Dismissed STA for KJJB 95.3 was a special authority request to by pass formal CP Mod changing transmitter location to KULM Columbus Tower, and move directly there on emergency STA. before engineering work on CP MOD for directional antenna system had been analyzed and approved by the FCC.

KIPS-LD permit cancelled 8-23-16, but minor mod pending also dated 8-23-16 The station license is for Digital only and no mention is made any where on paper work I have viewed for any other type of operation, license has been for LD operation since it was first issued in 2013
 
How much time and money do you estimate all these filings and responses are costing? There are filing charges assessed by the FCC, and they were recently increased. Engineering costs. Legal costs. And you'd like to add even more detail to this process? Really?
 
:cool: "YES" BA. Its like buying replacement batteries for police body cameras, its the cost of doing business, professional FCC agents doing the job they are charged with doing. either The FCC enforces Communication laws R they don't, And at the present time enforcement appears to be hit or miss depending on the part of the country You live in, and the type of violation and if its on the FCC HOT sheet this month. The Brass in Washington office seem to have adopted a Ostrich approach to problem solving, The FCC is mandated by Congress to determine the cost for specific services and access a cost recovery fee, some fees go up others down annually, The Bottom line they have a job to do and they don't seem to be doing it for the most part very well or in a fair and consistence manner as far as the Radio side is concerned, but like was mentioned they have bigger fish to fly with non radio telecommunication management and spectrum auctions. A idea might be to privatize enforcement like they have done in many other areas, such as land mobile frequency coordination and radio operator / engineer licensing.
Just have a contract for radio auditors to make sure all applications are factual and stations that say "They are constructed and on the AIR" actually are, What a concept.
 
TheBigA said:
You don't know much about the government, do you?
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:cool:I know the Air traffic controllers should have gone back to work when Regan told them to. too bad the FCC didn't walk out with them.
 
TheBigA said:
Instead the FCC replaced the engineers with lawyers. Do you like it better now?[/QUO

:cool:They didn't replace any engineers in the Houston office with lawyers, they just closed the office, privatized license exams for all classes, kept a unlisted office in North Houston several engineers worked out of, now down to one, who will retire before the end of the year ? and now the closest FCC office will be Dallas area, a long way to the port of Houston to do ship inspections when needed. But they say they now have a National Mobile HOT squad, ready to swoop down on Pirates and other rule violators any where in the country, "Yea Right" , don't hold your breath on that one. LOOK OUT 87.9 there coming to take U away Ha Ha.
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First Fone 65 said:
KIPS-LD permit cancelled 8-23-16, but minor mod pending also dated 8-23-16 The station license is for Digital only and no mention is made any where on paper work I have viewed for any other type of operation, license has been for LD operation since it was first issued in 2013
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Sounds blatantly illegal to me. I wonder if the Commission is having difficulty in locating the owner, or some other reason they can't shut the station down.
 
The Houston agent office IS still in operation until Jan 2017....Steve Lee is still on the payroll until then...
Yes the FCC HOME office is Washington....but a lot of the engineers are still there...the COMMISSION is the part full of lawyers and lobbyists..... sad
 
ContinuousWave said:
The Houston agent office IS still in operation until Jan 2017....Steve Lee is still on the payroll until then...

:cool:Back in the late fifties The Houston FCC office was on Windgate st one block from the Houston ship channel, short trip to do ship inspections, they had a class room for giving code and written Ham and commercial exams. In the Sixties they moved to Federal courthouse building in down town Houston very nice offices on the fifth ? floor, nice glass enclosed exam room code tests now given on tape recorder instead of mechanical monster used at Windgate it had mercury vapor rectifiers and was paper tape fed took up the end of a large table it made as much mechanical noise as the tape fed through it, as the code tone level in the headphones and the MVRs flashed the code as well, those were the days, they could issue You a license up grade on the spot no waiting on Washington, if You didn't PO Grandmaw the head clerk. what's left of FCC is hidden in the back of a office park off Jones RD in Jersey Village next door to Houston.
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First Fone 65 said:
..those were the days, they could issue You a license up grade on the spot no waiting on Washington, if You didn't PO Grandmaw the head clerk. what's left of FCC is hidden in the back of a office park off Jones RD in Jersey Village next door to Houston.
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Those were the days. I took my 2nd and 1st together at the FCC offices on M Street in DC in 1969. The exam room was like a Perry Mason style courtroom, with polished wood paneled walls and heavy carved wood tables you sat in. It was both exciting and intimidating; I had flown north about 2,800 miles to sit for the test so it was like a different world. There was even a proctor who walked about the exam room making sure nobody had a cheat sheet!

My first renewal was at the field office in San Juan, PR. The engineer in charge did the renewals himself, and he apparently liked to chat up the applicants. When he saw my "record of service" on the reverse side which showed WUNO in San Juan, he asked, "Clock still fixed? because he had given us a notification of violation the previous year over legal IDs that were not in the window. He liked radio, apparently, and he mentioned that there were only about 20 First Phones on the whole Island doing radio engineering.
 
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First Fone 65 said:
ContinuousWave said:
The Houston agent office IS still in operation until Jan 2017....Steve Lee is still on the payroll until then...

:cool:Back in the late fifties The Houston FCC office was on Windgate st one block from the Houston ship channel, short trip to do ship inspections, they had a class room for giving code and written Ham and commercial exams. In the Sixties they moved to Federal courthouse building in down town Houston very nice offices on the fifth ? floor, nice glass enclosed exam room code tests now given on tape recorder instead of mechanical monster used at Windgate it had mercury vapor rectifiers and was paper tape fed took up the end of a large table it made as much mechanical noise as the tape fed through it, as the code tone level in the headphones and the MVRs flashed the code as well, those were the days, they could issue You a license up grade on the spot no waiting on Washington, if You didn't PO Grandmaw the head clerk. what's left of FCC is hidden in the back of a office park off Jones RD in Jersey Village next door to Houston.
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Passed both my Advanced amateur and 2nd Class commercial at the downtown location....(took the others at the Beaumont office)
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