[grc] It only took 2,769 days ! Thanks FCC !

[Donna Dibianco]

Congratulations Jim and AA! 
Long hard battle, but the success is so sweet!
 Donna DiBiancoStation Start-up Specialist
503-960-1068
www.linkedin.com/pub/donna-dibianco
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WAY TO GO AUSTIN AIRWAVES!!!

Jim, it has been a hard fought battle. Thanks for sticking to it.

Hope to see you soon,

Todd
Phantom Machine Works




On 05/13/2015 08:42 PM, Jim Ellinger wrote:
> *Released as a Public Service of Austin Airwaves.
> Longish posting, covering a number of current
> CR/LPFM developments.
> *
> 
> *>  2769 days <
> *
> 
> *That's how long it took the FCC to issue a license for a new full power
> non-commercial FM station for the Ellinger/LaGrange Texas area.
> *
> 
> *Austin Airwaves applied for a license with the FCC on Thursday, October
> 11, 2007**,
> and this week, on Monday, May 11, 2015, we were granted the Designated
> Selectee
> status. A Construction Permit should be issued in thirty days, June
> 10th, 2015, barring
> an unlikely appeal from our remaining competitor.
> *
> 
> *However, when asked if he thought our remaining competitor would file
> an appeal,
> AA's engineer said /"No I don't."/*/**/*We don't know of any basis for
> an appeal of the FCC
> staff's decision, though groups have been known to file appeals (and pay
> attorneys' fees)
> just to be obstinate and obstructive.*
> /*"Well their barristers quit and I don't know why anyone would want to
> take their *//*
> *//*case on appeal. Praise the Lord,*/*/"/****says AA's ****attorney.
> *
> 
> _Previously__, regarding another station app_:
> The time to file a formal objection is the 30 days after the application
> is Accepted for Filing - /
> before/ it is granted.After CPs are granted, the bar is extremely high
> to have it pulled.
> 
> *This is by no means a record for waiting for the FCC.  91.7FM in Austin
> took eleven years
> from**first public announcement to sign on of the half-time station.
> That process involved
> the first-ever modification of the so-called /"Wolfman Jack Treaty"/
> with Mexico.**There have
> been other FM applicants that have languished before the FCC far longer.
> *
> 
> *We are pleased to note that all of our work and opinions about the FCC
> staff decisions/
> errors proved correct. (Again, no chance of interfering with another
> station 900+ kilometers
> away in New Mexico!)
> 
> *
> 
> It appears that the FCC consolidated several "straggler" NCE MX group
> decisions into one
> Order. We had heard that this order was coming, /many moons/ ago*...
> **On Ellinger, TX,
> the FCC essentially agreed with our primary contentions, and _Ellinger
> wins_ on the
> basis of _superior 307b_, even though it has fewer points than the others.
> 
> *
> 
> * > ! 7 years and 7 months ! <*
> 
> *We now have three years to put the station on the air. The CP is
> transferable.
> We have invested about $10,000 in attorney and engineering fees to date.
> *
> 
> *Thanks to everyone for their effort and support. Now someone just has
> to build, and operate,
> the station, indefinitely. (/How hard could that be?/)
> *
> 
> *Also Good News with LPFMs...
> There is also good news to report on the various LPFM fronts. Hot
> Springs' LPFM station is licensed
> and now under construction and expected on the air soon.
> *
> 
> *Wimberley LPFM is also licensed and under construction. I will be part
> of a tower crew this w/e.
> *
> 
> *No recent word on Under the Hood in Killeen. San Marcos may catch a
> break with their CP transfer.
> Or not.
> *
> 
> *AA BoD member Eric has almost single-handedly saved one or more of the
> Austin LPFMs. But there is
> still considerable work ahead, even before construction of any sort
> begins. AA cannot hold the license
> for a full power station as well as an LPFM, thus our Board decision
> last year was, in fact, the best move.
> *
> 
> *And finally, AA has offered to help out another LPFM project in Bella
> Anse, Haiti.
> *
> 
> *
> jim ellinger
> Austin Airwaves
> Released May 1*3*, 2015
> 
> *
> 
> *Notice for Austin Airwaves "Accepted for Filing"*
> http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Superseded=X&Facility_id=172596
> *_Attachment_**: See MX Group 538. (A long and dense read...)*
> *"AA Wins Ellinger" attachment is the brief, excerpted ruling. *
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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