"Ray Neville" wrote:
"Bob" wrote:
"Phil Kane" wrote:
Brian Kelly wrote:
"N22X" wrote:

unheard of! Plain truth is the FCC is out of the monitoring
& enforcement business! Permanently!

Since the FCC closed all their monitoring stations seven
years ago,

The FCC did *not* close all their monitoring stations.

In fact when the monitoring stations were remoted, an additional
one was added. The station at Canandaigua, NY was brought back on
line after being closed for a number of years (it was used as the
test bed for developing the remote control system).

The FCC closed down all monitoring stations in 1996,
and turned over the land they sat on to GAO for disposal.
The FCC no longer has any monitoring or locational
capability. Today's FCC is only a paper pushing
bureaucracy, without any technical expertise.
Sorry if you can't deal with the facts, but that is your
problem and doesn't change the truth.

Ray, can you explain to me why 47 CFR Part 0 Section 121 lists
14 locations for "protected" FCC field offices, including the
Canadaigua location mentioned above and the Laurel, Maryland
station mentioned in another post? The locations are protected
from RF emissions by licensed radio services *because* they are
FCC monitoring stations. Section 121 was updated in 1998, 1999, and
2002, so how can it be that these locations are still listed and
still protected if the monitoring functions there were discontinued
and the physical facilities disposed of in 1996?

Here is the list, coordinates included:

Allegan, Michigan
42[deg]36[min]20.1[sec] N. Latitude
85[deg]57[min]20.1[sec] W. Longitude

Anchorage, Alaska
61[deg]09[min]41.[sec] N. Latitude
150[deg]00[min]03.0[sec] W. Longitude

Belfast, Maine
44[deg]26[min]42.3[sec] N. Latitude
69[deg]04[min]56.1[sec] W. Longitude

Canandaigua, New York
42[deg]54[min]48.2[sec] N. Latitude
77[deg]15[min]57.9[sec] W. Longitude

Douglas, Arizona
31[deg]30[min]02.3[sec] N. Latitude
109[deg]39[min]14.3[sec] W. Longitude

Ferndale, Washington
48[deg]57[min]20.4[sec] N. Latitude
122[deg]33[min]17.6[sec] W. Longitude

Grand Island, Nebraska
40[deg]55[min]21.0[sec] N. Latitude
98[deg]25[min]43.2[sec] W. Longitude

Kingsville, Texas
27[deg]26[min]30.1[sec] N. Latitude
97[deg]53[min]01.0[sec] W. Longitude

Laurel, Maryland
39[deg]09[min]54.4[sec] N. Latitude
76[deg]49[min]15.9[sec] W. Longitude

Livermore, California
37[deg]43[min]29.7[sec] N. Latitude
121[deg]45[min]15.8[sec] W. Longitude

Powder Springs, Georgia
33[deg]51[min]44.4[sec] N. Latitude
84[deg]43[min]25.8[sec] W. Longitude

Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
18[deg]00[min]18.9[sec] N. Latitude
66[deg]22[min]30.6[sec] W. Longitude

Vero Beach, Florida
27[deg]36[min]22.1[sec] N. Latitude
80[deg]38[min]05.2[sec] W. Longitude

Waipahu, Hawaii
21[deg]22[min]33.6[sec] N. Latitude
157[deg]59[min]44.1[sec] W. Longitude


Additionally, from

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Inspector_General/Reports/sar997.txt

we have the following assessment (as of late 1997):

The reorganization entailed the closure of nine attended
frequency monitoring stations and three additional monitoring
sites located at FCC field offices. In place of these
previously manned stations, a national automated monitoring
network is now controlled from an existing facility in
Columbia, Maryland. Nine of the 25 existing field offices as
well as three of the six regional offices were closed. Two
technical staff members continue to be assigned as Resident
Agents in the nine locations in which field offices were
closed.

So lets see, of 25 field offices 9 were close, leaving 14. And
an automated monitoring network is in use, for which there are
14 protected locations. Does this add up to anything like

"out of the monitoring & enforcement business! Permanently!"

or

"the FCC closed all their monitoring stations seven years ago"

or

"The FCC closed down all monitoring stations in 1996"

or

"and turned over the land they sat on to GAO for disposal"

or

"The FCC no longer has any monitoring or locational capability"

or is there by any chance a large amount of disinformation being
relayed here as if it were fact?

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)