Yeah, you have to wonder if they need that many repeaters. If that's Trbo, then it means they have 14 total "channels", if you will. I can see a casino needing several, but I also see a trend. I wrote a little rant about this a week or two ago. I am seeing way too many businesses of all sizes (it started with one I was even familiar with) applying for and getting licences for way too many frequencies. My example was a small school that I saw that got like a dozen UHF pairs for repeaters. They won't even have 20 radios, let alone the need for all those pairs. Turns out they are getting one repeater. Apparently some coordinators are just shot gunning it and applying for multiples so they can pick what they want. That's sort of ok if they surrender the unused freqs after build out, but I don't think they are.
This means that you or I, or a business we know of needs one, it will be harder to get. In Northern Ohio they have let a single operator of repeaters take almost every available UHF freq on a wide area basis. Essentially "hoarding" them. I really doubt he can fill the hundreds of channels he has with traffic between Toledo and Cleveland. The city I live in used to have 5 CR's AND a SMR....now days we have one small 3 channel LTR that people can get on. So I really doubt his needs. Unfortunately it's first come-first serve...so if the coordinator goes along with it....he gets them. Now if some loading requirements come into play like in the days of 800 SMR...thats a different story. This guy is now trying for all the VHF's he can get too. Capacity is one things, but people need to have some common sense or the FCC is going to have to step and make them justify what they are asking for.
