Wayne County, IN seeks unique waiver for mobile repeaters

[W1KNE]

Wayne County seeks a FCC waiver to operate analog voice communications on 173.210, using 20K0F3E emissions designator. The FCC raised a couple of concerns of using a location 1 of 24kmra designation, versus "limits to within the county border", and the use of a 20K0F3E instead of a 12K5F3E narrowbanding mandate.The frequency 173.210 is usually restricted to digital telemetery.

Read the waiver online.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db0720/DA-12-1163A1.pdf
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[scannerfreak]

Good read and good find. I know they heavily use SAFE-T. When I've been there it sounded like they were on it full time. I suppose there must be some serious SAFE-T dead spots throughout the County.

 

[W1KNE]

Would this be better fit in the community announcements forum because it's such a odd STA request?

 

[scannerfreak]

I think it's OK here. I'd like to see if anyone in the area chimes in.