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Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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MWmetalhead
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Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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Some clown wants to put a 6 kw Class A FM station on the dial, licensed to Detroit, just 0.2 MHz away from 100.3 WNIC.

Lighting money on fire would've been a better idea than spending it to file this absurd application with the FCC!

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edj
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Re: Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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Non directional to boot!

I can’t find an engineering study. That would be a riot!

You would hope a non profit would find a much better way to spend money than this.
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Turkeytop
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Re: Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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edj wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2026 7:17 pm
You would hope a non profit would find a much better way to spend money than this.

It's decisions like this one that make them non-profit.
hb2
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Re: Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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LOL what a joke this application is.

If the FCC doesn't think WNIC's IBOC will not annihilate nearly every inch of this... or this cause issues vice versa... ... ... and lets it slide and get built..... then I guess the FCC has forgotten what interference is and the concept of IBOC and its sidebands.


It would be wiser of the applicant to pick a weaker frequency like 95.1 with a heavy null blocking out Canada, and not on a first adjacent channel of a station that is actively using IBOC.

NOT 96.7 or 93.9, 88.7, 95.9 which are Canadian stations that would certainly blow away anything on this side with such proxility. Add 102.3 as well in the immediate Detroit vicinity.

If the FCC starts letting stuff like this get built then let's just fill up every frequency 88.1 through 107.9, first adjacent or not and see how bad the interference is then. (That would be the absolute certain death to the FM band if it happened simply due to the interference)
Casey
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Re: Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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That’s just as stupid as Smile FM wanting to put a 50kw FM on 90.1 from Riverview back a few years ago not considering the interference it would have created with CBE 89.9, dumb ideas.
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hb2
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Re: Nominee for dumbest FM Table of Allotments amendment application of all time

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Casey wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2026 6:36 am That’s just as stupid as Smile FM wanting to put a 50kw FM on 90.1 from Riverview back a few years ago not considering the interference it would have created with CBE 89.9, dumb ideas.
That's right. Forgot about CBE 89.9 and Smile's 90.1 application
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