The FCC Wireless Bureau sought comment...
The FCC Wireless Bureau sought comment on a request by Globe Wireless Radio Services for a waiver of the commission’s rules to allow the use of high frequency (HF) transmissions above 5 MHz for communications between public coast stations. Section…
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80.453 of agency rules allow public coast stations to provide radiotelephone and radiotelegraph service to ships and shore stations only on frequencies between .415 MHz and 5 MHz, the bureau noted. “GWRS states that in the past a large number of domestic and international coast stations provided adequate capacity for inter-station communications, but factors such as a decline in licensed public coast stations, the distance between stations, and HF propagation characteristics that are disrupted by sunspot cycles, atmospheric and seasonal conditions make it necessary to access all licensed HF frequencies to provide reliable communications between public coast stations,” the bureau said (http://bit.ly/1qpUfsy). “GWRS requests a waiver to permit it to communicate between public coast stations on authorized frequencies above 5 MHz.” Comments are due April 9, replies April 24.