[BC] Auxiliary Facility back to Main Facility

[Danny Ray Boyer]

On the FCC's web site, entries "should be there" that show STA's that have been granted.  

However, the STA request documents from the requesting licensee is not available online.

In a nutshell, by looking at the FCC's web site, you can't tell if (and when) a licensee has filed an STA request, until the follosing:
 
 
Several days after the Commission acts on STA request, the results finally show up online - long after the FCC has granted the STA request. 

If you want to really find out what the station was asking for in the STA request, you have to get your Washington attorney to
get you a copy.  

In effect, the FCC gives Public Notice to the Public, long after the grant of the STA!  

That part of the system definately is broken.  

DRB 






One immediately springs to mind:  WCBS-TV.

	All of the examples are not what I see happening here. WCBS still had Empire licensed as an aux site. To go to a new main site, license the old as the aux, and then after one year say that the coverage is better at the original site,  is very easy to do, and with the proper sequence of FCC paperwork, legal. 

	My question if I can phrase it better:

	Does anyone know of a site ( I do), where they have been off the main site for over one year, they are operating from their licensed aux site? I see no STA on the FCC web site (doesn't mean there might be one), and there is NO antenna, no feedline and No transmitter(s) at the licensed main site. 

	Is there a place on the FCC web site that shows for real any STA's? Going in via the query site, and clicking on applications lists doesn't seem to bring up stations STA's who I know have them.


	tom bosscher