Mystery Surrounds 3 Pending U.S. Shortwave Stations

The FCC granted two new CPs (Construction Permits) and one new license in the high-frequency international broadcast band — known to most as the shortwave band — to U.S. operators in January.

The two CPs granted in Illinois — to DPA Mac, based in San Francisco and Parable Broadcasting, based in Virginia — were partial in nature. These operators received grants for traditional international band broadcasting, under Part 73 of the FCC rules. But the applicants were denied their desire for “datacasting,” or nonbroadcast, point-to-point transmissions.

[Read the construction permit grants for Parable Broadcasting and DPA Mac from the FCC.]

Multiple objections had been filed with the commission against the two applications. They questioned how such data transmissions could be received by the general public, as such licenses are intended. 

“We find that a partial grant of the application is in the public interest, as it would enable the general public in foreign countries to directly receive programming,” the commission wrote in its CP grant to Parable Broadcasting. 

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