Dec 02-08, 2012 NJ FCC Grants

[RadioDitch]

Came across this, and it has some interesting information that might be of some use...

Weekly New Jersey FCC Grants

 

[w2xq]

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Thanks!

 

[kb2vxa]

I hate to pin your balloon but that list is from 2008. As soon as I saw WSC in West Creek I knew something was wrong, that was the RCA Coastal Marine station that went dark years ago. The property is now owned by the Tuckerton Wireless Amateur Radio Club as their club station and uses the commemorative callsign W2WSC.

 

[res5cue]

Ty for posting.. found some stuff for my own hometown

 

[GTR8000]

I hate to pin your balloon but that list is from 2008.

No, it's not, it's current. Click any of the links and they'll take you to the FCC ULS, where you can check the dates on the licenses. Also, just look at some of the call signs, such as WQQG844, which were not yet being issued in 2008.

 

[RadioDitch]

I hate to pin your balloon but that list is from 2008. As soon as I saw WSC in West Creek I knew something was wrong, that was the RCA Coastal Marine station that went dark years ago. The property is now owned by the Tuckerton Wireless Amateur Radio Club as their club station and uses the commemorative callsign W2WSC.

Um, no. It's from 2012.

You are correct that the property is owned by Tuckerton Wireless Amateur Radio Club. But, it is also the north-central transmitter site for Shipcom LLC, the only provider remaining in the United States of HF SSB ship-to-shore radiotelephone service.

 

[W2SJW]

Hmm, interesting that Watchung added MotoTRBO emissions designators to the FD's licenses...

 

[jaymatt1978]

Wait how could some people say it's from 2008 and another post mentios the NEW Motorbo license issued for a FD> I have to remind these folks this is a FCC dump that's very very useful. I remember years agin there was a YAHOOGROUP who did the same thing!! DON'T KNOCK THE SITE FOR THE FCC'S SCREWUPS!!!

 

[nd5y]

The link the OP posted was the weekly list for Dec 2 through Dec 8, 2012 from Glen Mitchell's web site:
Quick Scanner Links

 

[RadioDitch]

The link the OP posted was the weekly list for Dec 2 through Dec 8, 2012 from Glen Mitchell's web site:
Quick Scanner Links

Yup, that'd be it! Very cool, useful site. First time I'd ever seen it.

I also noticed the MotoTRBO for Moutainside FD. I believe that might have to do with interop with Atlantic Ambulance dispatch (not to be confused with Cencom/MONOC Control), which is TRBO. I do know Mountainside PD was being fed the TRBO KoolAid though. Dunno if they drank it.

 

[kb2vxa]

Regarding WSC:
"But, it is also the north-central transmitter site for Shipcom LLC, the only provider remaining in the United States of HF SSB ship-to-shore radiotelephone service."

That runs contrary to every other source of information I know of including the Shipcom web site from which I quote.
"ShipCom stations WLO WCL KLB and KNN are all remotely controlled from Mobile, Alabama where operators are on duty 24 hours per day 7 days per week for radiotelephone Ship to Shore and Shore to Ship calls."
They also provide digital services BUT WSC went dark some years ago, equipment removed except for antennas and the property sold. They may still hold the license for the site but the station no longer exists. The Tuckerton club grounded the 300' VLF tower and uses it to support several antennas. They couldn't occupy the site if ShipCom still owned it, they had to wait until it went on the market.

Now stop arguing, I used to live in West Creek a few blocks from the site and know several club members. Now pray tell me how if the club owns the property would it make any sense ShipCom would sell it to them and lease property rites from the club? How could they tolerate interference with each other?

As an aside, the AT&T transatlantic station used two sites, Manahawkin for receiving and Ocean Gate transmitting. WOO went dark in 1999, abandoned but still standing, the only thing active is the cable landing at the Manahawkin site. Ocean Gate being just south of Seaside Heights the antennas, what's left of them if Sandy didn't finish them off completely are visible from the Pelican Island bridge. The site is leased by the Nicola Tesla Radioclub which is in the process of repairing the building and antennas with plans to open a museum.

 

[RadioDitch]

Yes, it's a remote site controlled over a shared fibreoptic network. All of ShipCom LLC's sites are. It's there, very much active. I'll take photographs next time we're down there at the ShipCom site for an antenna replacement in a few days. Sandy was rougher on the tower than originally throught. For the time being flip on your HF, and you'll hear it.

 

[w2xq]

Bump. The Dec 09-15 weekly listing at Weekly New Jersey FCC Grants is now available, Almost everything is a move to narrow-band 11K0F3E, and I found a couple of tower locations for my Burlco scanning page. HTH.

 

[cash082]

thanks trsundstrom!
lots of great information for the database here.