Anyone know how up to date the license database is ? Only reason I ask is because while doing a search, o found quite a few discrepancies.
Industry Canada updates their database daily. What they don't do often is remove the posted licenses for frequencies that are no longer in use. I often see companies that are licensed but don't exist anymore.
I usually just check the frequency authorization dates check box in step 2 of the search.
It's a really fantastic website for finding out frequency info.
On the topic of paragraph one, IC appears to keep listings for as long as the licensee pays for them. I know of a number of licensees that haven't looked at their licenses in depth in a long time, and still have frequencies licensed from the 1980s and prior, which are no longer in use. IC doesn't appear to do any checking of whether or not someone is using a frequency - but if you purchase a license for it, so long as the paperwork's in order, they will continue to "hold it in your name".
On the frequency authorization date - the way you wrote it, it sounds like you are discounting licenses with "old" auth dates as being invalid. I wouldn't do that - I know of at least one license still in use in the Alberta region which has an auth date in 1962.
Having said all that, the IC information on Spectrum Direct (the search form with the checkboxes you guys are referring to) is "published" every day. Whether or not the data published into it is accurate remains to be seen....
Also the data available is highly censored.
In what way ?
I see what you mean now. Very interesting, considering most of the 'hidden' frequencies would be easily scan-able.
I see what you mean now. Very interesting, considering most of the 'hidden' frequencies would be easily scan-able.
If you know other agencies that do not have protected status, you can sometimes see protected frequencies... MOT in BC is one example, they interop with RCMP, and sometimes the RCMP freqs show on MOT licences.
You just need to be creative with searches sometimes.
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Often it works the other way. Ottawa FS for instance shares EDACS channels with
Ottawa Police, so the whole lot is blocked. Same for all the City services including
transit, which except Transit security have no real reason to be blocked.
Dave