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[W2xj]

Actually it is auction now. The person who writes the biggest check gets the CP. 

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> On Apr 29, 2019, at 9:08 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There's a lot of environmental nonsense you have to get through also
> and in some places, you can't stick a shovel in the ground until one
> or more Native American tribes have decided you won't disturb ancient
> burial grounds and you have to pay them fees one way or the other.  I
> am not making any of this up--I know a guy who had to go through all
> that on the way to getting a CP for a station.  The red tape was
> absolutely unbelievable.   Once you get to where you are qualified for
> the CP, other interests can file with the FCC to get it taken away
> from you if they can justify that they are better qualified.   This is
> after you have done all the work.  It was insane.
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 7:54 PM CL in NC via AMRadio
> <amradio at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> In the, 'Who's listening' category, if you are near a large metro area, there are many stations that are not just broadcasting in Spanish.  I have wondered if anybody is actually monitoring those stations for content.  An English language station can make a screw ball off the wall comment, and it goes viral, demanding immediate action to the station or the person who made the vitriolic comment.  What exactly is that station in NYC, Chicago, or similar diverse ethnic metropolis broadcasting in the native various languages of their immigrant population?  Apparently the FCC cares about that with the same intensity as their concern about  foulness that happens on the ham bands.
>> 
>> On the more technical side, I started an application for a commercial shortwave broadcast station, just to see what it would take.  After I sloughed off the extreme expense involved in the licensing procedure to see what else lay in store,  got to the area where the FCC outlined the parking lot with how many handicap spaces it had to have. I quit.
>> 
>> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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