FCC assigned Part 15 Call Letters

RichPowers · 2024-11-08T00:21:24Z

I never intended to get into campus stations research. I planned to save the effort because it seems theres already a lot written about college campus history. My intention was to remain focused on the part 15 AM history that no one has ever written about, and incorporate a superficial history of campus stations into it. But about 6 or 7 months ago I began to realize it was going to be neccessary to give the topic just as much priority as I was giving the free-radiating method.. (same goes for TIS actually). Theres no separating them because they all had direct impacts on each other. One particularly interesting thing is that carrier-current stations are the only Part 15 AM stations that I know of which the FCC actually reserved call letters for. All of them. Beginning in 1942 (or thereabouts, maybe it was 44, I forget off the top of my head) and on through at least the early 1950s. The only problem is I have not found a shred of FCC documentation to support this fact. But it's all over decades of college station documents. The reason I bring it up now is because I just received from Jenifer (who's been personally digging into on location college archives for years and is presently adding and coordinating documents for the DLARC section of the Internet Archive) a 1950 thesis which I hadn't previously seen. I particularly like these early thesis from the 40s and 50s. She also knows I have a particular interest in finding confirmable facts about FCC actually issuing call letters, so she sent me this which should be showing up on the Archive in the coming weeks. What's particular about this one is that it gives actual dates of the correspondence with the FCC, and thus vastly increases my chance of finding it in the FCC archives, something confirmable. Because I've been half suspecting for some time that perhaps the colleges just thought the call letters were official, but in reality all the FCC was doing was telling them if the call letters were unused (like us checking a database today. Anyway, here's an excerpt from University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 1951 The development of radio station KRJC at Modesto Junior College Edward L. McClarty University of the Pacific[Page 15] "In a letter of August 28, 1950, to the secretary of the Federal Communications Commission, KRJC requested an official assignment of call letters by the Commission.KRJC was informed in previous communications from the Commission that the call letters KMJC were unavailable for its use, and therefore the station sent a list of ten sets of call letters to the Commission for its consideration.KRJC was fifth on the list of suggested call letters, and in the Commission's answer of September 8, 1950, the station was advised that the call KRJC is being reserved for the Modesto Junior College campus system."

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@mark Uh... I think I just answered that quite clearly above! You must have just skimmed over it...

Jennifer is... "the primary curator of the Internet Archives repository of such documentation, she's also served on official FCC interference workshop task force meetings, and top it off the founder and often host of the Radio Survivor radio program that airs on over 50 LPFM and Part15 stations in the U.S. as well as at least on in Canada, and even one in Ireland!..

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https://www.radiosurvivor.com/ and spinningindie.blogspot.com

The Radio Survivor program is free to air for LPFM and Part 15v stations

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