An Odd Allocation

[loumaag]

I was surfing around looking up various things for the new area here and stumbled across a pretty odd license for the City of Amarillo.

KRC578 is a license issued to the local combined disaster agency for the use of Channel 24 on the CB band with an output of 20 watts, both base and mobile. Anyone seen anything like this before? BTW, the map LAT/LON has to be wrong because the fixed station is supposed to be downtown Amarillo.

 

[nd5y]

My guess would be it was issued back before the late 70's when there were only 23 CB channels and they just keep renewing it.

I just searched for licenses between 26.965-27.405 and found 2 more on CH 27
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&cs=kyk475&action=fcc
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&cs=kg3127&action=fcc

I forgot about this one too
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=fcc&cs=KRT818

 

[n4voxgill]

They are using the City of Amarillo FRN number. It is the strangest frequency I have ever seen. You can apply for a waiver of the rules to get about anything that is not in the federal portion, so who knows.

 

[loumaag]

My guess would be it was issued back before the late 70's when there were only 23 CB channels and they just keep renewing it.

I guess that is possible, but the current base station allocation shows a "first use" date of 5/30/85 on the buildout information.

I just searched for licenses between 26.965-27.405 and found 2 more on CH 27
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&cs=kyk475&action=fcc
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&cs=kg3127&action=fcc

I forgot about this one too
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=fcc&cs=KRT818

The Carbon County one although odd, at least is only licensed of 3 watts of power. The Verizon Virgina one does show an output of 12 watts but if someone was thinking of SSB that would still fit within the power range allowed; note that the first use on the buildout information is also for May of 1985. I think you grabbed the wrong link on the KRT818, as that has nothing to do with the CB Band.

I too ran a search using the FCC ULS Advanced search and the result was 497 active licenses. Almost all of them dealt with communications companies and demonstration licenses (IG Type) where the allocation was for 25.0000 - 50.0000 MHz so it showed up. No I did not look at each and every one to see but I did look at several to determine what was going on and also looked at the ones that were not IG. Other than the previously mentioned, the only one I found was KCI800, which is a remote broadcast allocation for 100 watts! It is located between Ch 3 & 4 (26.990); I am sure that is bothersome to our CB friends in Essex County, MA.

They are using the City of Amarillo FRN number. It is the strangest frequency I have ever seen. You can apply for a waiver of the rules to get about anything that is not in the federal portion, so who knows.

In addition to that CB allocation, I find that the Amarillo Emergency Services (which I think is the same or related to the Disaster Services) has a GMRS Repeater license; I guess I need to get into the local ham repeaters and start to network.

 

[Russell]

As I recall, there are two frequencies below, or in the middle of the CB band that the Feds have refused to let go of for many years. From what I remember the frequencies were of "significant importance" to the Federal Government. I don't remember the exact freqs, but you can see some "holes" in the channel plan 26.995, 27.045, 27.095, 27.145, and 27.195.

Russell

 

[nd5y]

I should have clarified that last URL. It is for a DPS weight station near Childress. DPS hasn't used 42.90 since the late 70's either. I don't know exactly what the first use date means but to me it doesn't mean much because I have seen a lot of stations that have been on the same frequencies with the same callsigns since the 1950's or 60's and the first use date is in the 80's or 90's or later

 

[nd5y]

Those holes in the CB band are the Radio Control channels. http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=radio_control
The federal ones are 27.575 and 27.585 which are above the CB band.