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47 USC 310(a) establishes no foreign government or representative of such may hold any FCC license 47 USC 310(b) only says common carrier licensees are subject to foreign ownership restrictions GMRS is a non-common carrier service, so long as he isn't a governmental rep somewhere else he's fine holding a license, but ULS will not accept an international address - if he can't accept mail here but has someone willing to accept on his behalf stateside he can use that person's address

Used to be a Part 94 on the books for microwave radio services, and GMRS users used to be allowed to license a fixed point to point link in P94 somewhere in the 31 GHz band I have a feeling if the FCC wanted GMRS repeaters to be linked they wouldn't have axed that decades ago

Back in the 80s/90s(?) GMRS licensees used to be permitted to have an additional fixed, point to point license in the 29 to 31 GHz band in Part 94, long stricken from the Code of Federal Regulations I've taken that to think the FCC has long not wanted linking in GMRS, even if they didn't outwardly say so

Now that I looked at it it’s not its own rule, the rules just say under every frequency “Unless otherwise indicated, all channels have a bandwidth of 20 kHz and are designated by their center frequencies in MegaHertz [sic]” The rule that permits disaggregation is a way to split offsets and bypass that nonsense, don’t think you need a waiver for that in particular

There's a proceeding from 2014 to clean up P22 rules (cannot remember the docket number offhand) and still remaining a rule that completely prohibits offset channel usage in Part 22 (I'll have to look that up as well) An experimental license configured that way on P22 channels could definitely end up being the impetus to get rid of the rule

In my neck of the woods there are very few site-based paging licenses still active (and they are protected from those who won auctioned licenses, yes) and some of the EA-based ones have been sitting unallocated Indiana Paging Network has most of their operations on the shared 900 MHz ones

yeah not a bad idea Me personally, I'd prefer for the FCC to reauction unused Part 22 licenses No site based filings, just construct your base station in the license market and go to town

Is it? They keep renewing the license and it's still active

In 2014 the FCC opened docket 14-180 to try and clean up Part 22 (the auctioned Paging & Radiotelephone Service, now popularly used by some governments as a supplement or substitute for Part 90 freqs when they're unavailable) rules Interestingly a good number of the commenters there were screaming "let us use Part 90 cert'd stuff on Part 22" in unison

I've seen one license state "farming and s**t spreading" listed as their justification for a frequency

This is correct, applications for new Part 90 licenses on itins only can be directly submitted to ULS without coordination

Dismissed, because of course it was Reason given is because a formal process doesn't exist to allow it

Yeah, and it’d be relatively simple if they were simplex only. They could make it even easier if they used those DTR 900 MHz units if they want no license for simplex only, I’m sure any number of dealers would be willing to sell a pallet of those to them. Lots of good options out there really

Yeah it’s channel 17 on the bubble packs, shared with GMRS, treated as FRS if under 2 watts