Possible bug in FRN lookup report

[K3MAQ]

I think I may have come across a bug in the FRN lookup report for FRNs containing licenses spanning multiple locations. (It's also possible that I'm misunderstanding how it's supposed to work.)

For example: FCC FRN: 0018385237 (CNX Gas Co LLC)

This FRN contains a license, WQJX707, that is licensed for 463.4500 as a FB2 at a single site in Washington County, PA.

The license view shows 463.4500 only for this site.

The FRN view shows this frequency as a FB2 for every site on the license.

 

[Reconrider]

FRN results from the FCC are grouped into one "list" under that account on the FCC.
You can have more than 1 FRN but you would have to search that FRN for results also.

What are you trying to find?

 

[K3MAQ]

I'm trying to find licensed frequencies for a multi-site trunked system that has multiple licenses and multiple sites within the same licenses.

When I search for the licensee (on RR, not the FCC site), I get the report I linked to above which seems perfect.

The problem is that it seems to be incorrectly joining the data. Here's a simple example. Let's say the FRN has only one license that is set up like this:

Freq	Station Class	Site
454.100	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.200	FB2	New York, NY
454.300	FB2	San Francisco, CA

But when I run the FRN level report, it incorrectly shows every frequency duplicated for every site:

Freq	Station Class	Site
454.100	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.100	FB2	New York, NY
454.100	FB2	San Francisco, CA
454.200	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.200	FB2	New York, NY
454.200	FB2	San Francisco, CA
454.300	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.300	FB2	New York, NY
454.300	FB2	San Francisco, CA

This means to find the site level data, I need to click through to the individual licenses. Not a big deal, but it seems like it's probably a bug in the FRN level view, and if it's not, I'm curious why it's designed the way it is.

For a real-world example, click the link in my original post, click to page 2 of the FRN data, and search for 463.450. You'll see that the FRN view shows that frequency as licensed for about 6 counties. But if you click into the license (WQJX707) you'll see that 463.450 is actually only tied to one location in one county.

 

[sonm10]

I'm trying to find licensed frequencies for a multi-site trunked system that has multiple licenses and multiple sites within the same licenses.

When I search for the licensee (on RR, not the FCC site), I get the report I linked to above which seems perfect.

The problem is that it seems to be incorrectly joining the data. Here's a simple example. Let's say the FRN has only one license that is set up like this:

Freq	Station Class	Site
454.100	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.200	FB2	New York, NY
454.300	FB2	San Francisco, CA

But when I run the FRN level report, it incorrectly shows every frequency duplicated for every site:

Freq	Station Class	Site
454.100	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.100	FB2	New York, NY
454.100	FB2	San Francisco, CA
454.200	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.200	FB2	New York, NY
454.200	FB2	San Francisco, CA
454.300	FB2	Pittsburgh, PA
454.300	FB2	New York, NY
454.300	FB2	San Francisco, CA

This means to find the site level data, I need to click through to the individual licenses. Not a big deal, but it seems like it's probably a bug in the FRN level view, and if it's not, I'm curious why it's designed the way it is.

For a real-world example, click the link in my original post, click to page 2 of the FRN data, and search for 463.450. You'll see that the FRN view shows that frequency as licensed for about 6 counties. But if you click into the license (WQJX707) you'll see that 463.450 is actually only tied to one location in one county.

This issue has been kicking around for a while. Yeah it's annoying. Most of the time, I click onto each license individually, anyways.