ASRI Meets With Wireless Bureau on Aviation Spectrum Request
President Kris Hutchison and others from Aviation Spectrum Resources Inc. met with FCC Wireless Bureau staff on a request the company made as part of the “Delete” proceeding. In that proceeding, ASRI asked the commission “to eliminate an outmoded rule specifying a geographic restriction for the aeronautical VHF channel of 136.750 MHz, which limits the efficient and constructive use of the aeronautical VHF band by the aviation industry.”
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“The persistence of that ‘special exception’ continues to preclude ASRI from making full use of its license on 136.750 MHz for aeronautical enroute Service communications in furtherance of Data Comm in almost all of Florida and in significant portions of the five other states on the Gulf coast,” said a filing recapping the meeting, posted Wednesday in docket 19-140. The deletion “is needed to ensure that ‘the entire 136 MHz band’ is available for aeronautical enroute stations ‘to reasonably accommodate Data Comm’ throughout the country.”