FCC Services
CONSOLIDATED SPECTRUM SERVICES is unsurpassed in quality and low pricing for frequency coordination and FCC licensing services. Our long-standing commitment to quick turnaround and experience with the FCC allows our customers to acquire licensing in the shortest possible time.
Services are offered in the following areas:
• Fixed & Mobile Microwave
• SCADA and Multiple Address
• Special Temporary Authority
• Experimental Licenses
• Frequency Coordination Process in General for Fixed or Mobile Microwave
The Frequency Coordination process for Microwave Systems involves an interference analysis by Consolidated Spectrum Services to locate interference free frequencies. Prior Coordination Notices (PCN), which include a path data sheet, is then disseminated to all licensees and/or their frequency coordinating representatives over an FCC specified area. A negotiation between licensees and frequency coordinators ensues and is completed only when all potential conflicts have been resolved. Each recipient party has thirty days to respond to each PCN. Expedited two week PCN’s may also be requested. At the end of the frequency coordination process, a List of the Stations Coordinated with, and the microwave data sheet are merged into a Supplemental Showing which becomes an attachment for the FCC license application. The FCC License application is optional but Frequency Coordination and the PCN’s are mandatory. Consolidated Spectrum Services can also file the required Notices of Completion of Construction on the clients behalf, if so desired.
Included in the coordination price is FREQUENCY PROTECTION for ten years, provided we file the applications. At the end of ten years when your license is renewed there is a small charge for this service for the next ten years.
Click Here to Download an Interactive Microwave Fixed Licensing Data Sheet (Word Form)
Click Here to Download an Interactive Purchase Order (Word Form)
• Air Mobile Licensing for Video and/or Data Down Links.
We have successfully acquired numerous licenses for Air Mobile Video and Data down-links in the 2.4, 4.9 and 6.5 Ghz frequency bands. Entities include Public Safety, Private and Common Carriers. We have also acquired airborne licenses for Local Television Common Carriers in the 2.1 Ghz band.
The 4.9 Ghz band is limited to Public Safety. Ground Mobile and Fixed Operation are only permitted in this band reference: FCC Rule Part 90.1205. Air Mobile Operation in this band is strictly prohibited without a waiver of said rule part. The air mobile waiver process is outlined by FCC Docket 03-99 reference: page 6, paragraph 13, footnote 29.
The docket referenced above, requires coordination per International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Standard RA769-1 and 2 “Interference With Radio Astronomy Observatories”. This procedure requires one to coordinate with all Radio Astronomy Observatories and Military Facilities, within a 750 Mile radius. In addition the Regional Office of the Department of Defense and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory must be coordinated with.
We then merge these document into a Waiver of 90.1205 (c).
To the best of our knowledge we are the only company that has ever successfully licensed air mobile units in the 4.9 Ghz band.
Click Here to Download an Interactive Microwave Mobile Data Sheet (Word Form)
• Tower Database
A database of all towers registered by the FCC is maintained. One of the main uses of this information is to find tower rental space for possible repeater, transmit or receive sites.
• FCC & FAA Tower Registration
Our engineering staff can register a Tower or Antenna Structure with the FAA and the FCC. Registration is required if the Tower or antenna support structure is over 200 feet above ground or fails the glide slide to the airport, reference the links section of this site, FCC Tower Air Study.
• Marketing Services
We offer monthly Marketing Reports derived from newly licensed stations above 900 MHz. This information is offered in hard copy and/or on computer disk. Several different software formats allow sorting in various database programs.