Public Safety Bureau Grants Wireless Waivers to Alaska, Washington's King County
The FCC Public Safety Bureau granted waivers to Alaska and King County, Washington, in orders released Thursday. The Alaska order waived Section 90.20(c)(3) to operate a new VHF base station on four channels using nonstandard channel centers. The state said…
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it needs the waiver to improve coverage of its land mobile radio system. For King County, the bureau waived 90.613 and 90.623(a) to operate on 11 800 MHz frequencies for mobile-only, on-scene, mutual aid communications in the conventional mode. The county said it plans to use the channels for public safety communications in underground and indoor locations where service from its 800 MHz trunked radio system isn’t adequate.