Railroads Explain Opposition to Use of 160.9 MHz by Fishing Equipment
The Association of American Railroads cited the group’s opposition to use of 160.8875-160.9125 MHz by fishing equipment markers or non-safety autonomous maritime radio devices using automatic identification system technology (see 2111180052), in a call with FCC Wireless Bureau staff. “Approximately…
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20,000 locomotives use the 160.9 MHz band for critical safety operations on portable and fixed radios, which translates to hundreds of thousands of radios currently operating everywhere within the United States,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-230: “Co-frequency use by fishing equipment markers, even on a secondary basis, threatens to create harmful interference to railroads’ ubiquitous deployment.”