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dfndr13

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In reading some FCC License's from different sources, I come across some that have several businesses to them. Is there a way to know who really uses it. I understand that some may be on the same freq. for different cities, however some I come across have two or three in the same city. I know of 1 or 2 that share them, but how common is that? When reading the license how would one know really is using it.

Example:461.6000 WILL KENNETH; NATIONAL BY PRODUCTS INC; EARTHCARE SERVICES INC; SCHNEIDER RODGER C; CLARKS TV COMMUNNICATIONS INC; PLANTE GEORGE; CLARKS TV COMMUNICATIONS INC; WATERS

Just curious. Thanks

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It could be a community repeater - more than 1 user, each one using a different PL or DCS. Or it could be a trunked system, with each one using a different talk group, but that would show more than 1 frequency for each user.
 

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I don't know where you are but in the DFW area almost every UHF business
frequency has multiple conventional repeaters and/or LTR systems and
some of them are only a few miles from eachother.
 

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dfndr13 said:
In reading some FCC License's from different sources, I come across some that have several businesses to them. Is there a way to know who really uses it. I understand that some may be on the same freq. for different cities, however some I come across have two or three in the same city. I know of 1 or 2 that share them, but how common is that? When reading the license how would one know really is using it.



Well, I have an amateur radio license and also a business band license. According to amateur radio, you are to I.D. your station once every 10 minutes and at the end of your last transmission. With business band, not sure of this is FCC law or not, but you are to give your call sign when making a contact and when ending the contact. So by rights the only way you truly know who is using the frequency is if and when they I.D. their station.

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There are a few shops around Wichita that make there money on the lease of 2-way radios with Repeater access and Phone patch capabilities.

I know of a few landscape companies that use the Wichita Comm tower and few othe construction companies that use another comm co. just south of me. Theres a lot of responcibilty that those comm companies take on with there renters.

Me, personaly, had to deal with the repeater mafia once and decided that it was much cheaper to use a cell phone instead. As far as amature use it a hell of a lot easier to set up a repeater there then it is on the business bands.
 

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Individual users are not licensed on community repeaters. They operate under the main licensee. P.L. has nothing to do with it. Each of the license holders you list have their own, individual radio systems. Could be simplex or a repeater pair.
 

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shaggy2dope said:
Individual users are not licensed on community repeaters. They operate under the main licensee. P.L. has nothing to do with it. Each of the license holders you list have their own, individual radio systems. Could be simplex or a repeater pair.
The individual users' base and mobile radios might be licensed to them, while they're using a community repeater owned by (and licensed to) someone else. We used to require that our users have their own licenses, so that if they did anything illegal the FCC could come down on them individually.
 
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