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Frequency Coordination Games and Excessive Fees – Warning for New Private Land Mobile Applicants (Part 90)
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celestis
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I paid $6,000 at auction for 200 MHz in the Gulf of Mexico, OP should be glad the FCC doesn't make you fight for a 12.5 or 25 kHz wide channel like this - those coordination fees are always cheap compared to this
speedway_navigator
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Get a refund, that place does not exist anymore.
celestis
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License still says Gulf of Mexico in ULS but the price sheet for the next auction says Gulf of America
curious
speedway_navigator
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That's incredibly fast for our federal govt, maybe tax returns will be next...
Round 2: ULS Application - Industrial/Business Pool, Conventional - 0011547296 - SLT Design Creations LLC
The waiver request citing FCC 15-136 is unusual, as it applies to prison inmate telephone call rates.
This is what happens when people who do not understand how the FCC rules works tries to be armchair attorney. Like thinking that anything in Part 97 applies to Part 90, or part 2 for that matter.
Or the "influencers" that think that "exposure" pays the bills for anyone that actually works for a living. I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that "the laborer is worthy of his hire." If someone works for you, they deserve to get paid; it's the worker's option to cut you a buddy deal.
There's a whole lot of stuff that I'm perfectly capable of doing myself. Many of those things aren't worth doing myself due to frustration, etc. I'm much happier to pay for those things, as are the people around me.
Didn't want to say that initially, but that's exactly right. I think she's quickly learning the hard way why you pay actual professionals to do this work.
Hiring a coordinator is just like hiring any other legal expert to navigate regulations in your business. You hire an accountant to keep your books legal with the IRS, you hire a coordinator to keep your radio stuff legal with the FCC.
Sure you CAN do the IRS stuff on your own, but I would not go cherry picking regulations that do not apply to your situation and try to massage them to fit. Same thing applies with the FCC.
Simple things like renewalls can often be done without the help of those federal licensing service folks, but for initial licenses and most modifications, hiring someone to properly cross the Ts and dot the Is is how you do business. The time kludging through this on your own is much better spent growing your business.
Sure you CAN do the IRS stuff on your own, but I would not go cherry picking regulations that do not apply to your situation and try to massage them to fit. Same thing applies with the FCC.
Simple things like renewalls can often be done without the help of those federal licensing service folks, but for initial licenses and most modifications, hiring someone to properly cross the Ts and dot the Is is how you do business. The time kludging through this on your own is much better spent growing your business.