[grc] Does anyone at the FCC respond to questions

[Lloyd Ewing]

GRC Friends,
I have been trying to get someone at the FCC to answer a few questions,
and I can't get anyone to reply to my E-mail or phone messages.

A few years ago when I was going through the ordeal of trying to obtain
our construction permit, help from people at the FCC, like Gary Loehrs,
were indispensable to my success.  That experience led me to believe
that the FCC had an interest in ensuring that LPFM stations get on the
air and continued to operate legally.

Things went well enough since then, and until now I have not needed to
contact anyone at the FCC.  If I remember correctly Gary Loehrs is long
gone, and now I can't get anyone who knows anything at all to respond to
my E-mail and phone messages.  Is this normal?  What should I do?
Should I send my questions to someone in the management hierarchy who
might forward the questions to the people who are supposed to provide
answers?

I don't want to go into the details of the questions I have been trying
to ask the FCC here;  they are a separate issue and it would make sense
to post those questions under a new topic.  It is quite likely that
someone on this list is able to answer those questions.  But I have to
wonder what the FCC would intend for the LPFM operators to do who do not
have the benefit of help from an organization like the GRC?  Keep a
broadcast engineer and an attorney on retainer?

Parenthetically, the departments I have been trying to contact are the
EAS reporting system
https://www.fcc.gov/general/eas-test-reporting-system
at:  ETRS at fcc.gov
and the contacts for STA questions on
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/special-temporary-authority

Thanks very much!

                             Lloyd
                             (512)836-7893


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