New NYC Channel 16 System?

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Found pending applications for a trunked system and a conventional system in the 482/485 band. Twenty eight freq. trunked system, twenty freq. conventional system. Pending application #'s are 0002627258, 0002627259, 0002627260, 0002627261. Go to svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports/index.cfm, click on Pending ULS Data, then enter file #.

 

[Alarms50]

More info can be found at the FCC's new website http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/searchAppl.jsp. Enter file # to access one of the four pending applications.

"The system being proposed by the New York Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications ("DoITT") consists of 20 sites and 48 frequencies. Ten sites will operate in the trunked/simulcast mode and utilize 28 frequencies at each site. Ten sites will be conventional/simulcast with 20 frequencies at each site."

"...DoITT and its supplier are confident that construction of both the trunked and conventional systems will be finished no later than early 2008"