No, we don't need a seventh oldies station. Or more syndicated get-a-life
sports stations. Or six stations carrying the likes of Savage or Limbaugh
or Schlesinger..

But there are some places in this country that need community service, and
aren't getting it.

Exactly. The FCC did a study and found that third adjacents had no
effect whatsoever. None. And this is the *FCC* doing the study, and
recommending to Congress, not the other way round. So that means the
barrier at this point is politics, not technical issues.

We were given a building permit for a location that not is no good
because a commercial station moved their transmitter into our area and
washed the entire county at that frequency. So our best shot was to
request a move of both location (to a new spot less than 3 km from our
original spot) and frequency. We did an exhaustive search of our area
and found one channel in one location that had only a third adjacent
overlap. We filled out the form with the FCC and were rejected because
of this third adjacent channel (which is a college station that had
been using WinAmp to shuffle the same ten CDs for two years... hows
that for useful?).

Our building permit expires in less than two months, so we're looking
into our options. Get a stay of expiration as long as we have the
antennae up and broadcasting? (We have access to an existing tower at
the new location.)

Any comments welcome.