[BC] WATO

[Mike McCarthy]

Understood...and I think I said that.

More importantly, however, is the FCC's willingness to grant these STA 
which allows the station a great deal of flexibility to restore operations 
at ANY power level by any means possible.

MM

At 06:10 AM 2/27/2009 -0500, dynotherm at earthlink.net wrote

>The FCC/ASD tries to be extremely helpful in this situation because
>it is not the FCC breathing down anyone's neck. It is the U S Congress
>who in their (very) finite wisdom enacted a Law that any license unused
>for one year would be forfeit. There is nothing the FCC can do about
>this except assist stations in every way possible to get back on the
>air for at least a day to reset the one year clock.
>
>Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: towers at mre.com
> >
> >The FCC is typically really flexible with new owners trying to resurrect
> >dead stations.
> >
><snip>
> >file for an emergency operation STA so as to allow the
> >station to get back up, stop the clock from ticking, and gain the time
> >needed to effect more substantial repairs where needed without the onus of
> >the FCC breathing down your back.